connivance

How To Use connivance In A Sentence

• Mandela was convinced of security force "connivance", at least in the form of standing back and allowing violence that they could stop. ANC Daily News Briefing
• It would be absurd to attribute any political meaning to the incident, or to suppose that it had any connivance from the French Government. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
• Against such a background of general connivance and betrayal, the few - very few - acts of genuine resistance stand out.
• What attracted Von Eschl's attention was the fact that it was always the same barn, which led him to believe that there was some kind of connivance going on between the count and the partisans. Poland
• It was allegedly cooked up by a powerful personality who had to face a disgraceful exit from one of the Tata companies, in connivance with a chief political figure of that time.
• It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
• Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
• The removal of safety devices to speed up production, for instance, is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors.
• However, a silence was ill-timed, and though not so designed, might be deemed by some a kind of connivance; for a rising heresy seeks to carry on its work under ground without noise: it is a fire which spreads itself under cover. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
• During the years the institution has been in the red with its liabilities mounting up and funds and resources swindled by those at its helm in connivance with the bureaucracy and some politicians.