(n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.
Example Sentences:
(1) A crime could be committed even if the abettor did not take any tangible action, provided the actions "directly and substantially" assisted and where there was "knowledge ... that torture is being practised".
(2) "All co-conspirators and abettors must be held accountable."
(3) Rodchenkov was specifically identified in the report as an “aider and abettor” of the doping activities and it was recommended he should be “permanently removed from his position”.
(4) Lord Brown said what is needed is "a custom-built policy statement indicating the various factors for and against prosecution, factors designed to distinguish between those situations in which, however tempted to assist, the prospective aider and abettor should refrain from doing so, and those situations in which he or she may fairly hope to be, if not commended, at the very least forgiven, rather than condemned, for giving assistance".
Complicity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(3) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(4) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(5) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(6) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
(7) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(8) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
(9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(10) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(11) Trismus may be a complication from local anesthesia.
(12) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
(13) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(14) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(15) This method, which permits a more rapid formation of anastomoses, has been used to form Roux-en-Y jejunojejunostomies without extensive complications in six patients.
(16) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
(17) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(18) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(19) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(20) The course was further complicated by administration of gentamicin, an antibiotic known to potentiate neuromuscular blocking drugs.