What's the difference between cabal and conspiracy?

Cabal


Definition:

  • (n.) Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
  • (n.) A secret.
  • (n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
  • (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
  • (v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (2) The antigen for the CT was prepared from lyophilized Babesia caballi complement-fixation (CF) antigen.
  • (3) A cabal of corporate types has been signed up to provide wise counsel to David Cameron .
  • (4) Most grownup democracies regard such leadership as most accountable where it is embodied in one person, rather than expressed through the cabalism of party groups and shifting coalitions.
  • (5) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
  • (6) 321 sera of horses were examined for specific antibodies to Babesia by means of CFT and IIF in 1984; 18 sera reacted to Babesia equi and 4 to Babesia caballi antigen.
  • (7) These protests represent a group of like-minded individuals coming together to demonstrate their frustration and unhappiness at a system that is rigged in favour of an elite of unelected cabals who have undue influence over the lives of working people.
  • (8) Asserting in 2002 that "America did, in Afghanistan, what had to be done and did it well," he commended Hamid Karzai's CIA-sponsored cabal of warlords – apparently, it was "surprising people by functioning pretty well".
  • (9) But if taken in their entirety, and if true – the government denies it – they offer a damning vision of a corrupt cabal at the head of the Egyptian regime.
  • (10) The IFA test indicated a prevalence of 90% for B. caballi and 94% for B. equi.
  • (11) BBC may have to share licence fee with rivals Read more The subtleties involved in an organisation failing to suppress news about its repressive news management were wasted on hordes of aggrieved conservatives, who had always suspected that their favourite sources were being blacklisted by a cabal of liberal geeks.
  • (12) The specificity of the clones for B. caballi was established by the lack of hybridization to Babesia equi, Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and equine DNA.
  • (13) It is a resolution that the most surprising people, in the most surprising of contexts, continue to find themselves unable to show - I am thinking, for example, of the recently reported remarks of Labour MP Tam Dalyell, who said Tony Blair had been "unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers".
  • (14) Acknowledgment: I wish to thank Doctors Stephen A. Ockner and John Cacciamani for the kind referral of their patient and Doctor Edito Cabal, St. Louis Veterans Administration Hospital, who performed the arteriography.
  • (15) Slowly, my colleagues and I in Congress have been chipping away at this secret cabal ever since.
  • (16) Inflation was developed by a cabal of theorists over a number of years.
  • (17) On Thursday the president told a party congress there was a “treacherous cabal” bent on removing him from power.
  • (18) Probably because "Gnod" resembles a conflation of "God" and "synod", they have an air about them of a quasi-religious sect, a cabal, a secret society.
  • (19) The horse contracted a B. caballi infection showing a prepatent period of 19 days after tick infestation.
  • (20) He'll even be going to Washington's (not really) secret all-powerful Republican cabal meeting today: Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) Manchin to meet with Grover Norquist's "Wednesday Group" in an effort to get votes for background check plan.

Conspiracy


Definition:

  • (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
  • (n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
  • (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) September 11 conspiracies Facebook Twitter Pinterest September 11 conspiracy theories.
  • (2) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (3) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
  • (4) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
  • (5) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
  • (6) That's what I call a conspiracy between the prime minister and the press."
  • (7) Warner, a government minister in his country, suggested on Trinidadian television that the allegations were a conspiracy.
  • (8) GetUp’s conspiracy theories are a matter for them,” he said.
  • (9) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (10) Channel 5's Val Kilmer action adventure film repeat Thirteen: Conspiracy, averaged 1 million viewers, a 5.5% share, rising to 1.1 million and 5.8% including Channel 5+1.
  • (11) As his supporters gathered to demonstrate in Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid on Thursday evening, many claimed there was a conspiracy to bring down one of the world's best-known human rights investigators.
  • (12) "Was there a conspiracy between Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers to intercept voicemail messages?
  • (13) He was charged with a range of offences including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, banditry and criminal conspiracy.
  • (14) Now, it's either a case of gross incompetence or, as I said yesterday, I've got an increasing feeling that it is actually a case of an international criminal conspiracy."
  • (15) They found nothing and she says she is not a conspiracy theorist.
  • (16) Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front and a protest organiser, faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to provoke mass unrest.
  • (17) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (18) For now these private schools are protected, not just by the conspiracy of silence, but also by the law.
  • (19) US prosecutors wanted to charge Hayes on three counts of conspiracy to fraud, with each one carrying a 20 to 30-year sentence.
  • (20) In 1967, 18 men were prosecuted in a federal court on conspiracy charges relating to the case; seven were convicted but none served longer than six years.