| Nor is it right for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to connive with that purpose. |
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| It doesn't really matter how materially privileged they are, they are still miserable and we connive at making them even unhappier. |
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| Together they connive in cahoots and scheme to create the world's worst musical, a guaranteed catastrophic dog of a show. |
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| And for the present Mr Hague has had good reason to connive in this effort. |
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| And even worse, he may take the weekends to plan and conspire and connive and make sure that he isn't caught when he goes back on his shooting spree during the week. |
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| Each wants to win, and to do so they must connive and scheme. |
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| Now they want to connive, aided and abetted by the separatist Bloc, to overturn the results of an election held only seven weeks ago. |
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| The challenge arises when families connive with these local councils to increase the ages of children. |
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| I cannot understand how a politician of the centre-right can connive at protectionism. |
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| Those who wished to remain in their posts were obliged to connive in the dishonesty of the oligarchy. |
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| Countries which connive at fraud by operating ineffectual control mechanisms should suffer temporary withdrawal of advantageous export conditions. |
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| However xenophobic attitudes also fuel the violence and appear to underlie the local police failure to respond swiftly or, in a few cases, to connive with the perpetrators of the violence. |
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| Freedom of Association is rightly the core Convention of the ILO, but, increasingly it is one of the most ignored by Member States who often appear to connive with employers to preserve a union-free workplace environment. |
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| The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye. |
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| As it rattled through sleeping English towns they would gossip and connive in the bar car, disembarking in Edinburgh or points north as the sun rose. |
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| He is a true, gritty, grumpy, nuggetty character, who would do whatever it takes to connive and contrive a win for his beloved homeland. |
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| The tragedy is that while the international community continues to dither and thereby connive, however inadvertently, with the Sudanese government, Darfuris continue to die. |
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| After eight decades of exclusion from power, many of them feared that the West would connive with Iraq's Sunni Arab neighbours to put a revamped Baath party back into power. |
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| They connive with particular mining companies and in the displacement of large civilian populations into ghettos and shantytowns so that the mining companies can take over. |
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| The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule. |
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| The temptations to connive at drug-trafficking, turn a blind eye to violations of human rights and plunder the environment are strong and it is necessary to provide a countervailing force of sufficient weight. |
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