What's the difference between colluded and confederate?

Colluded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Collude

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.

Confederate


Definition:

  • (a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
  • (n.) One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
  • (v. t.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
  • (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Matthew Fell, the Confederation of British Industry's director for competitive markets, said: "The government has made absolutely the right decision not to adopt the European FTT in the UK.
  • (2) The NHS Confederation – backed by the British Medical Association and the royal medical colleges – issued a strong warning that healthcare would suffer as a result of the reforms.
  • (3) The president of the Confederation of British Industry used his opening address to repeatedly make clear that it regards EU membership as being beneficial to the UK economy and warn against ending the principle of free movement of labour, as opposed to free movement of benefits.
  • (4) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
  • (5) These 40 young women were interviewed by one confederate of each sex.
  • (6) Subjects were induced to interact with a confederate who in all cases revealed something quite personal about himself.
  • (7) Nigel Edwards of the NHS Confederation, which represents 95% of the health sector, said that there were now trusts considering "closing down services and selling off" hospital wings.
  • (8) Retail sales have held up surprisingly well , according to the Confederation of British Industry's August survey published on Thursday, suggesting that momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter.
  • (9) Late last night, al-Ahmar, who is also the head of the Hashid confederation, accused Saleh's troops of not observing the ceasefire.
  • (10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
  • (11) The study was designed to test whether men and women identifying with a masculine stereotype differ in their perception of a confederate (adversary) who displays either an empathetic or aggressive role in resolving a disagreement over social issues.
  • (12) Kevin Green, chief executive at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Without a doubt, the retail sector is having a difficult time.
  • (13) Students initially expected the confederate to display traits similar to those of a typical former mental patient.
  • (14) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
  • (15) Organized into same sex dyadic pairs, 64 students (32 male, 32 female) were divided into two groups (high- and low-eye contact) and assigned to either a positive or negative condition defined in terms of the verbal content of the confederate.
  • (16) Before a cross-party political summit on the local NHS to be held at Stormont this month, a report by the Northern Ireland Confederation – a body that represents 50 health and social care organisations – has warned of additional pressures on the health service.
  • (17) An earlier version of the article said the Financial Times reported that the Confederation of British Industry had attacked the scheme as "highly discriminatory and very unfortunate".
  • (18) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
  • (19) Now, a European champion for club and country , twice Chelsea’s player of the year, the most expensive signing in Manchester United’s history, and a starter in last summer’s Confederations Cup final here, he might have expected to play a central role four years on.
  • (20) So in June, Fifa banned the instrument from stadiums for the Confederations Cup.

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