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What they did – in secret, with the assistance of judges appointed by a single man operating in secrecy, and with the connivance of many decent people who believed themselves to be acting to save the society – was to unchain the listeners from law.
"The MDC views this is as a wanton act of aggression by Zanu-PF aimed at covering up the massive electoral fraud by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) orchestrated at the behest and connivance of Zanu PF," the party said.
I am appalled by the brazenness of this clique and the silence, if not connivance , of the Presidency," he wrote.
The previous judge, condemning Mr Ríos Montt in 2013, said the army had killed 1,771 members (about 5.5%) of the Ixil ethnic population with his connivance during his rule in 1982-83, the bloodiest period of the civil war.Some believe that even if the general committed crimes against humanity, the genocide charge goes too far.
Power to the owners Rally drivers The enemy within Hugo Chávez's rotten legacy Reprints Related topics Vladimir Putin Russia Sergei MagnitskyThe ensuing attack on Hermitage eventually involved a huge fraud, by officials and police officers with the connivance of the courts, which used the wreckage of the firm to purloin a tax refund of $230m from the Russian exchequer.
That is typical of his government's connivance at a culture of impunity and cover-up that has also seen a number of books on Indonesia's recent history banned.Mr Yudhoyono continues to be viewed charitably.
Appalling massacres by Lebanese Christian militias, with the connivance of Israel, at Sabra and Shatila, on the fringes of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, laid waste to those camps.
India's power sector is a mess largely because people steal electricity with the connivance of the utilities.
The risk is that this surge of violence will tip Egypt into a new bout of revolution, or that the army, with or without Mr Morsi's connivance , may reimpose a dictatorship.Yet it is too soon to despair of Egypt's future.
Of the 2m or so barrels of oil pumped out of wells in Nigeria each day, as many as 400,000 are reckoned to be stolen, often with the connivance of politicians.In this section Fading hope Big fish (or shark) in a small pond On the back foot Destroying history's treasures ReprintsSome argue that the black market does at least provide jobs.
After Mrs Gandhi's reference to "merchants of death" was taken as an allusion to his alleged connivance in the 2002 pogrom, his defiant response appeared to justify a notorious 2005 murder by policemen in his state.
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The primary grammatical function of "connivance" is that of a noun , referring to the act of tacitly allowing or secretly assisting in wrongdoing. This is supported by Ludwig AI, which indicates it describes a process or state of being complicit.
Expression frequency: Very common
