Examples of connivance

• Corruption, he says, cannot exist without the connivance, even if passive, of the political leadership.

• At the administrative level it is a story of government complicity, connivance and concealment.

• Acts of judicial connivance quashed societal opposition to the regime and prominence was given to the military judicial system within areas commonly beyond its jurisdiction.

• The tardiness or inefficiency of the municipal authorities in suppressing popular revolt was therefore seen by the crown as a deliberate act of connivance.

• That much duly acknowledged, however, it remains the case that it was the tacit connivance of the socio-political elite that provided the opportunity.

• However, in a number of cases this was with the connivance of traditional authorities and even parents. 34.

• Yet we do not need to know the names of every individual concerned to prove that official connivance was widespread.

• However, state-controlled marketing institutions faced fierce competition (especially in the case of beans) from parallel market traders, who operated mostly at night and with the connivance of government officials.

• Sackville's narrative elicits a reader's connivance in his attitude of undiplomatic impatience and self mockery.

• Registers, containing information on the number of young men liable for conscription, occasionally even fell victim to arson attacks, often, one suspects, with the connivance of local officials.

• It is also an inescapable fact that sanctions, with the active connivance of certain countries which pay lip service to them, are easily evaded.

• This was a serious and shocking case, and there was evidence of long-established local malpractices and management connivance.

• Talk of connivance and conspiracy stretches our credulity to breaking point.

• There might even be connivance and collusion in the entertainment.

• To what extent has there been some connivance, even some collusion?