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Cahoots


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
  • (2) One covers Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Cahoot; the other covers Alliance & Leicester.
  • (3) Questions remain, but the outlines of what Draghi will unveil have been carefully and skilfully briefed ahead of the disclosures in sessions at the European parliament, private briefings to journalists, and speeches, most notably from Jörg Asmussen, the German on the six-strong ECB executive who is said to have drafted the policy in cahoots with his French colleague.
  • (4) The press and the government are in cahoots, he explains, to oppress white people.
  • (5) And British forces have carried out plenty of beatings and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq themselves, either on their own or in cahoots with US and local forces , as multiple reports and inquiries have now made clear.
  • (6) During his refusal to step aside amid the February coup attempt, Giles claimed unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and police commissioner John McRoberts from their respective offices.
  • (7) The two men suspect the police and Abu Hamada were in cahoots.
  • (8) I took some acclimatising to the double act In Cahoots , whose show opens at an inhospitable pitch of self-assertion, without the consistent material to back it up.
  • (9) And what to say about his other eye-catching venture – the cable car over the Thames in east London, run in cahoots with Emirates airline.
  • (10) As journalists struggle to make charges stick, they are running the risk of simply entrenching an image of Ukip in the minds of voters as a populist outsider fighting a homogeneous political elite who are in cahoots to undermine the "silent majority".
  • (11) Santander will retain the Cahoot name and the products will attract separate rates and charges.
  • (12) The new group, which has attracted 25 Syriza MPs, accused Tsipras of acting in cahoots with foreign lenders with the sole aim of purging dissidents and clearing up the political landscape.
  • (13) Bird kept repeating that his twin brother, David, and solicitor Kevin Commons, 60, were "in cahoots" against him.
  • (14) Isis, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers party], the spies of Assad – they are all in cahoots but will get swept away,” says Ahmet, echoing Erdogan’s implausible allegation that all these groups cooperated in the recent Ankara suicide bomb attack, the deadliest terrorist strike in Turkey’s history.
  • (15) He has hit back with the same argument he has used about a string of legal investigations that have dogged him since 2012: that he is innocent of any wrongdoing and that he is the victim of a plot against him by political enemies in cahoots with the justice system.
  • (16) He is probably part Muppet, so it would make sense that he's in cahoots with the robots.
  • (17) While questions still need to be answered about political interference (what some call “co-ordination”, I’d call “in cahoots”), the actual letter can be dismissed for what it was – a cynical attack on public intelligence.
  • (18) Again, according to which conspiracy you favour, those same Islamists – be they Muslim Brotherhood or ultra-conservative Salafis – are either in cahoots with the junta in an attempt to guarantee their own slice of power, or as hapless as the rest of us trying to end military rule.
  • (19) Oliver Stone's JFK , for instance, flat-out invented a case to support the view that John F Kennedy was murdered by the CIA in cahoots with Cuban exile organisations.
  • (20) There is a very real danger that the conduct of a parallel inquiry in the terms advised would compromise both current and future prosecution action.” Giles and Chandler said the government also considered the commission’s inquiry was “sufficiently robust to not require a judicial inquiry.” Last month Giles apologised to the NT police force for remarks he made in the fallout of an attempted challenge to his leadership, which alleged unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and McRoberts from their respective commissions, but the NT Police Association labelled the apology “half-hearted”.

Collude


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It seems that the Metropolitan police, the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] and even the court have all colluded to implement a predetermined decision which was made in Washington.
  • (2) This is a depiction that Indians themselves have allowed and even colluded in.
  • (3) My first thought on reading this story was that Gigi could collude with a gay male friend who would present himself to the father as a man that likes a challenge and offer to turn his daughter to the joys of beard rash.
  • (4) The Algeria-Germany last-16 tie in Brasília will take place in the shadow of the so-called Disgrace of Gijón, when West Germany and Austria were accused of colluding to ensure that they both reached the knockout stages of the 1982 World Cup at the expense of the north African side.
  • (5) The sentence was passed in December 2010, after the Iranian government accused him of "colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country's national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic".
  • (6) And they see the old mechanisms of social change such as the Labour party, labour movement and British state as having consistently failed and colluded with inequality, power and privilege.
  • (7) Karzai has infuriated US officials by accusing Washington of colluding with Taliban insurgents to keep Afghanistan weak even as the Obama administration presses ahead with plans to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces and end Nato's combat mission by the end of next year.
  • (8) Occasionally, a retired colleague advocates a change, but mostly politicians, professionals and the media collude in the fiction that we are winning the war on drugs, or if not, that we still have to fight it in the same way.
  • (9) The committee had been conducting an investigation into allegations that the two bid teams had been colluding to trade votes, against bidding regulations.
  • (10) It is important to note that the culture and environment at the organisational level has the potential to trump other determinants: good people in corrosive or toxic environments have been known to collude in undesirable behaviour.
  • (11) Watkins was able to manipulate female fans, not just for sex but until they colluded in his abuse of their own children.
  • (12) Opponents argue there is circumstantial evidence that Trump colluded with Moscow to help his campaign but definitive proof has remained elusive.
  • (13) The notion that any secret group of politicians colluded behind closed doors against one presidential candidate last August by eliminating the straw poll is completely false,” said Colorado GOP chairman Steve House in a statement released Friday.
  • (14) Fiona Mactaggart, the Labour former Home Office minister who is chair of the all-party parliamentary group on trafficking, warned that Britain was colluding in bonded working.
  • (15) The prime minister accused Task Force Sweep, which is made up of Justice Department staff and police, of colluding with unnamed politicians.
  • (16) Asked how he would respond if energy companies put prices up before his freeze was implemented, Miliband said: "I'm not going to tolerate the energy companies using the fact that there's going to be a price freeze to somehow collude in raising prices before the election.
  • (17) The confrontation, he said, was understandable given the previous situation in Ecuador in which the private media colluded with the government.
  • (18) Journalists have colluded in the self-pleasuring of Boris Johnson by obsessing over which side of the fence that incorrigible attention-seeker will fall.
  • (19) While this may be normal practice for the police, to outsiders this suggests they are colluding to hide something, weakening the public’s belief that the IPCC will get to the bottom of the case and deliver a credible verdict.
  • (20) On Tuesday, Greece’s leftist-led government criticised Austria for colluding with Balkan countries to its south in tightening restrictions after its defence minister appealed to N ato to deploy a task force to stop yet more from crossing the Aegean.

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