(n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
(2) These accusations seek to make her an accomplice to a misuse of public funds through her parliamentary assistant’s contract.
(3) The programme alleges that the Home Office ignored evidence presented by Ellis's solicitor Victor Mischon that she had an accomplice when she shot her lover David Blakely, an upper-class racing driver, outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London, on Easter Sunday 1955.
(4) But he added: “Although yesterday’s attack has not been claimed, this sort of thing fits in perfectly with calls for murder from such terrorist organisations.” Molins said the investigation would focus on a number of key issues, including potential accomplices, how Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had procured the gun he fired at police and whether he was connected to radical jihadi networks.
(5) Executives at a London-based mining company should be investigated and charged as accomplices to murder for their role in a police massacre of 34 striking mine workers in South Africa , a judicial commission of inquiry will be told.
(6) Since 2012 hundreds of millions of dollars have gone directly into the pockets of traffickers and their accomplices, including government officials in Burma and Thailand .
(7) One of the suspects was quoted by police as saying that he and his accomplice had targeted a group linked to the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's most powerful crime syndicate, in apparent retaliation for Sugiura's death, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
(8) He called the incident “a stab in the back, carried out by the accomplices of terrorists”.
(9) His book details his efforts, for example, to win some clemency for a young man named Joe Sullivan , convicted in 1989, aged 13, of burglary and rape on testimony given by two older “accomplices”, one with a long criminal record of sexual violence.
(10) In a bid to move on - and avoid discrediting Mao too much - party leaders ordered that the Chairman’s widow, Jiang Qing, and a group of accomplices be publicly tried for masterminding the chaos.
(11) His accomplice was initially arrested and confessed they were sent by Boko Haram ,” he said.
(12) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
(13) The report argues that the region's "poor, uneducated and vulnerable" should not be penalised for taking drugs when governments and law enforcement agencies should be using their funds and legal powers to stop the traffickers and their accomplices.
(14) He was Bin Laden’s acolyte, his accomplice, his stooge.
(15) He remains in jail today primarily because of an “accomplice” theory of liability which was included in the written charges but not argued to the jury, that he allegedly assisted someone in an unidentified way.
(16) The witnesses were divided by a simple question: did Sheridan lie about affairs and visits to a sex club in Manchester, or was he right to insist that he was the victim of a plot to destroy his political career, in which his former comrades and friends in the Scottish Socialist party became accomplices of the union-bashing News of the World ?
(17) When Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane in November 2015, Moscow responded furiously, with Putin calling it “a stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists”.
(18) The man, who has not been identified, is accused of the cold-blooded murder of 25 people and with being an accomplice in the murder of hundreds of other civilians at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
(19) Sydney siege inquest: Monis may have been driven in 'by unknown accomplice' Read more Minutes later, the gunman killed the cafe’s manager, Tori Johnson.
(20) Has it become an unwitting accomplice in silencing and removing "troublemakers"?
Approver
Definition:
(n.) One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.
(n.) An informer; an accuser.
(n.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.
(v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(2) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(3) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(4) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(5) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
(6) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
(7) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
(8) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
(9) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(10) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(11) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(12) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(13) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
(14) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(15) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
(16) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(17) I am acutely aware that not all of you, by any stretch of the imagination, will approve of everything I have done.
(18) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
(19) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(20) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.