Sentence examples for abettors from inspiring English sources

A number of its justices are thought to sympathise with the view that scheme liability is best left to the SEC, which has the power to pursue aiders and abettors under its Rule 10b-5.Some lawyers in Washington even suggest that Mr Cox only sided with investors because he was convinced that they had almost no chance of support from the Supreme Court.

They were used to seize alleged mobsters and their abettors as far north as Novara, near Turin.Evidence amassed included a film taken secretly of a meeting of 'Ndrangheta affiliates near Milan.

On April 14 , 1775 Gage received a letter from Dartmouth informing him that Massachusetts had been declared to be in a state of open revolt and ordering him to "arrest and imprison the principal Actors and Abettors in the [Massachusetts] Provincial Congress".

Why is it that the allies of Washington must always be mocked and demonized for siding with the United States -- a republic and a democracy -- while the abettors (conscious or otherwise) of America's enemies -- such as Saddam Hussein, the psychopathic overlord of a horrific dictatorship -- must be rewarded with descriptions of their "heroic" opposition?

While the Vatican has initiated several actions to increase the efficiency of its internal procedures dealing with child sex abuse by its clergy, this should not lead anyone to believe that the Holy See will now be a force in assisting victims and punishing perpetrators and abettors to these heinous crimes.

It was fighting only "the machinations and schemes of the old Colonization Society and their leaders and abettors".

(See also accomplice; accessory; and abettor).

An abettor is one kind of accomplice, the other being an accessory, who aids the criminal prior to or after the crime.

I had wanted to check this village out because it was the home town of Rasputin — not Valentin Rasputin, the Siberian writer, but the original unhinged self-described holy man Rasputin, abettor of the downfall of the Romanov line.

As Egypt circles back toward the authoritarian tendencies of its past, the criticism of the international media is not surprising, but the role that the local press has played as an abettor in this is the more dispiriting phenomenon.

In the search warrant for that request, the government described Rosen as "an aider, and abettor, and / or co-conspirator" in violating the Espionage Act, noting that the crime can be punished by ten years in prison.