Examples of cabal

• Here, too, the issue had been one of 'publicness', with a supposedly voluntary charity having come under the effective control of a small cabal of surgeons.

• Here was the scent of monopoly: the government had no trouble sniffing out a manufacturers' cabal to fix output and wages, and deprive workers of their pleasures.

• Parrott demonstrates that the crown was reliant on short-term credit provided by a cabal of well-connected financiers, the clients of the ministers they funded, and therefore unassailable.

• The system is not the distribution of public monies by a medical cabal in its own interests, as has sometimes been suggested.

• It was not done in a secret cabal.

• I speak for myself, not as spokesman of a group, cabal or little clique.

• I do not believe that we should provide for a situation where the mayor could be removed by a political cabal within the assembly.

• I prefer to refer to it as the product of a cabal.