It was more like a pile of interlocking fiefdoms, in which many smaller bosses gained wealth, power or both through complicity in propping up the greater pyramid scheme.Two-and-a-half years after Mr Mubarak's fall, Egypt has come full circle.
Our tax dollars should not be lining the pockets of any business that makes profits through complicity in human rights violations, be they the atrocities in the Congo, trafficking in humans, child labor or sweatshops.
The researchers concluded that the practice is perpetuated not only by adults who carry out harmful sexual practices with children, but by non-abusing adults through complicity, silence, denial and failure to take appropriate action.
They achieved this not by stealing the ballots or intimidating voters, but through the complicity of the Indian electorate, by legally winning hundreds of thousands of votes.
The storyline offers a kind of redemption: the possibility that, however culpable and corrupt the East German nation became through its complicity with the Stasi, a tiny but imperishable capacity for decency - even at the highest, chilliest levels of the secret police - was what finally consigned the regime to history.
In this he succeeded through the momentary complicity of the local leaders of the city of Anagni, who, however, after two days changed their minds, rescued the Pope, and thus frustrated whatever further plans Nogaret may have had.
The letter also denounces the US, EU and several developing countries for what it describes as their "complicity" through weapons sales and other military support in the attack that killed 160 Palestinians, many of them civilians, including about 35 children.
Finally, in seeking to locate the source of jihadist violence, Milne's greatest mistake is to cite the west's complicity through its foreign policy when the reasons for success in recruiting terrorists are as diverse, again, as the Muslims who rally to the call of Islamist war.
We want the Bank to see the impact of the modern slavery system on the lives of average Uzbek citizens forced to work hard and long hours in the cotton fields under the threat of penalty, and this protest shows the World Bank that they can no longer ignore the question of complicity through the projects financed by their loans.
The authorities said there was no evidence that Mr. Zurick, either through laxity or direct complicity, had been involved in the escape.
The public linkage of Iraq's intelligence service and the Al Qaeda terrorists also raises the question of whether those ties suggest Iraqi complicity -- either through financing, training or the providing of forged travel documents -- in the attacks last month.
