The public aids and abets, finding most investigation of public figures unwarranted and (unless sex rears its head) plain boring.
Anyone who "aids, abets, counsels or procures" a suicide out of compassion or something more sinister risks up to 14 years in prison.It is a risk that many are willing to take.
WHAT is the appropriate penalty for a firm that abets genocide?
A principal in the second degree is one who intentionally aids or abets the principal in the first degree, being present when the crime occurs; this is comparable to the French concept of complicité par aide et assistance, although in some countries, as, for example, Germany, that have adopted a wider (more subjective) interpretation of the concept, it includes the activity of coauteurs.
In Saboteur (1942) Robert Cummings played a patriotic factory worker framed for murder and sabotage, and Priscilla Lane played the trusting woman who aids and abets his crosscountry flight.
The online application that most American colleges have used in recent years, known as the Common App, abets counsellors in setting limits on the anxiety.
Suketu Mehta's article describes a young immigrant woman whose factitious account of rape abets her asylum claim ("The Asylum Seeker," August 1st).
America, Pearce often says, has been "invaded," and the Fifth Column that abets this invasion is, he told me, an unusual alliance of "big business, folks with thick checkbooks on K Street, the corporate oligarchy," and "anarchists and seditionists".
They have been aided and abetted in their attempt to terminate Miliband's political career by citing criticisms from a range of Labour MPs.
Until he was arrested by the Metropolitan police's Operation Elveden team, he had no idea of the existence of the offence of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office.
That story's great fame has had a distorting effect on the rest his work, abetted by every ignorant commentator – and there are plenty – who has identified it as typical.
