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Accomplice


Definition:

  • (n.) A cooperator.
  • (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"?

Suspect


Definition:

  • (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
  • (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
  • (a.) Suspicion.
  • (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
  • (v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
  • (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
  • (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
  • (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
  • (v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
  • (2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
  • (3) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
  • (4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
  • (5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (6) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
  • (7) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
  • (8) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
  • (9) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
  • (10) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
  • (11) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
  • (12) Bartter's syndrome was suspected because of the features of the hypokalemia, hyperaldosteronism, hyperreninemia, increased concentration of plasma angiotensin I & II, the defect in distal fractional reabsorption of chloride and normotension.
  • (13) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
  • (14) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
  • (15) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
  • (16) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
  • (17) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
  • (18) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
  • (19) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
  • (20) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.