(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.
Corroborate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
(v. t.) To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
(a.) Corroborated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Data obtained with fenoldopam were corroborated with use of SK&F 38393, another dopamine D1-receptor agonist.
(2) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
(3) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
(4) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(5) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(6) This ability of differentiation could be corroborated for the RASCH-Model.
(7) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(8) No evidence was seen to corroborate the contention that individual lobules of the vermis may project essentially throughout the rostrocaudal extent of the nucleus.
(9) These had been diagnosed following an IVP procedure and corroborated by ultrasound.
(10) Further corroboration for multiple functional promoters came from heterologous expression of the pfl operon in the obligate aerobe Pseudomonas putida.
(11) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
(12) The hypothesis relating the pattern of GH secretion to protein conversion efficiency was corroborated.
(13) The results shown here corroborate those two elements.
(14) The hypothesis of a relationship between self-complexity and individuals' sense of meaning and purpose in life was not corroborated by correlational analysis.
(15) The suspected high-risk characteristic in this group was corroborated by high progressive mortality observed particularly after axillo-femoral bypass and was due primarily to the severity of associated diseases.
(16) This work corroborates anatomical data well known since G. Lazorthes about the main trunk of the middle cerebral artery.
(17) Hence these results corroborate theoretical predictions that low P50 is advantageous under severe hypoxic stress.
(18) To corroborate our finding, we also analyzed serum Na+ and Cl- using a Technicon Sequential Multiple Analyzer + Computer (SMAC) system and a Nova 4 + 4 Clinical Analyzer (Nova).
(19) The results of protein, phospholipid and enzyme analyses were corroborated by analyses by 'genetic dissection' using an eyeless mutant line.
(20) In vitro, we corroborated that catecholamines significantly increased ammoniagenesis from kidney slices.