(v. t.) To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
(v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
(v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
(n.) Act of abetting; aid.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement on Monday, Adams said he was aware that police might want to speak to him about the killing given that veteran republican Ivor Bell was charged at the weekend for aiding and abetting in the murder.
(2) The 77-year-old republican veteran denies charges of aiding and abetting in the McConville murder.
(3) Worse, politicians abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs.
(4) On the eve of Charles Taylor's conviction for "aiding and abetting" such attacks as he and his allies sought control of lucrative diamond fields, Sorie maintained his silence.
(5) I give up reading of the hell that criminalisation – abetted by an antediluvian UN – inflicts on the people of Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan and Burma.
(6) Whether an on-water or on-land matter the government must come clean and explain to the Australian and international community whether it has funded, aided and abetted those that it calls dangerous criminals – people smugglers – to turn back people seeking asylum and safety,” he said.
(7) The team’s failure led to the immediate and “irrevocable” resignations of both the manager and the president of the Italian federation, Giancarlo Abete.
(8) "I am disappointed the leadership of my party did not consult me before issuing a press release and seems always to abet the request of the pro-Israel lobby.
(9) Book and author quickly acquired a mystique, partly abetted by Salinger, who cultivated his obscurity to the point of mania, becoming as secretive and self-obsessed as Holden Caulfield, in the words of the New York Times , “the Garbo of letters”.
(10) Because the Living Will advances the concept of negative euthanasia--an ethical, legal, and political misnomer--and abets the effort to legalize positive or direct euthanasia, it should not be given legal recognition.
(11) Just as we argued in the 1980s that those who conducted business with apartheid South Africa were aiding and abetting an immoral system, we can say that nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas and human suffering caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
(12) Most important, Carlin says, Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
(13) A final uniform formulation was tentatively proposed that this patient, in addition to a strong genetic component for atopic dermatitis, had her illness abetted by inability to cope with aggressive affects.
(14) Investors cite similar reasons for buying green bonds: the ability to earn attractive returns (typically 4% to 5%) with minimal risk; and a growing array of clean energy projects, abetted by lower renewable energy costs, that are environmentally and financially attractive.
(15) However, abetted by the resultant low index of suspicion on the part of clinical staff, certain parasitic microorganisms may at times cause significant morbidity and even mortality in both normal and immunocompromised patients, as summarized in this review.
(16) Many important aspects of the mechanism(s) abetting renal ammonia metabolism in man have remained unresolved.
(17) They are abetted by GP columnists and correspondents in the trade press, who all seem to be on the verge of boarding a plane to leave the country, because of disgust with the NHS .
(18) Yettaw was given a seven-year jail sentence, including four years of hard labour, after the court found him guilty of abetting the violation of the house arrest order and two other offences.
(19) Their cruelty was abetted by the apparent ineptitude of local authorities, which failed to intervene at several junctures.
(20) A significant point was that prior to developing their illness, all these patients had arrived at a state of objectlessness which was abetted by the deafness.
Embolden
Definition:
(v. t.) To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(2) One big question is whether Lord Adonis’s NIC will feel emboldened enough to make proposals that conflict with government policy.
(3) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
(4) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(5) The forces of chauvinism, protectionism and xenophobia have been emboldened.
(6) Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas.
(7) The warning, in a report by the energy regulator, Ofgem , could embolden the government to trigger an early "dash for gas" which critics fear would mean higher carbon pollution for decades to come.
(8) The billion-dollar question now is whether Clinton’s recent travails will embolden bigger Democratic fish to take her on.
(9) Still Portland 0-0 RSL after 10 minutes 2.19am GMT 8 mins RSL look emboldened by that chance and now Morales gets the better of Jewsbury near the byline and forces a panicky clearance from Kah for a corner.
(10) Gay rights activists have been emboldened by the US supreme court’s decision last June to award same-sex spouses equal federal benefit rights, prompting an anti-gay backlash primarily in the more conservative southern states.
(11) The embassy move would also embolden Israel to further expand its illegal settlements throughout Palestine.
(12) In the 1940s as it was in the 1840s, as it had been ever since the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth laden with emboldening casks of wine and beer.
(13) attack is the latest offensive by the ever-emboldened insurgency, which has sought to exploit the vacuum created by the contested presidential election, which has failed to produce a successor to Hamid Karzai.
(14) However, in a line reminiscent of George W Bush's "axis of evil", Kerry specifically mentioned a host of US enemies, saying Iran could be "emboldened" if the US did not act.
(15) Senate Democrats were on a collision course with the White House on Tuesday as the party’s newly emboldened liberal wing dug in its heels over global free trade deals it claims will drag down US wages and working conditions.
(16) Finland’s refusal could embolden other eurozone members to block a deal, especially those in central Europea and the Baltic, which are proving to be the fiercest critics of the Greek government.
(17) But without a plan to politically empower them, the region's Sunnis could instead see the attacks as an extension of an 11-year period that has emboldened Iran and the Arab Shias at their expense.
(18) There are children and women and elders here.” If water protectors surrendered now, oil companies could be emboldened, added Brandy-Lee Maxie, a 34-year-old Nakota tribe member from Canada.
(19) This has emboldened the PKK and strengthened its hand both within Turkey and regionally.
(20) We’re concerned that language would embolden pharmaceutical companies to challenge government under the TPP where a country seeks a compulsory license to produce a generic medicine and the company feels it doesn’t meet that criteria because it’s not an emergency or an epidemic,” he said.