What's the difference between collusion and treason?

Collusion


Definition:

  • (n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
  • (n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
  • (2) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (3) An official report into the police shooting of Mark Duggan says "a perception of collusion" was created by officers sitting together in a room for hours writing up their accounts of the incident.
  • (4) Sulser said no evidence had been found of the collusion claims but confirmed that Spain's executive committee member Angel Villar Llona and Qatar's Mohamed Bin Hammam and only been contacted by letter and not interviewed in person.
  • (5) Cages, watchtower and 37 graves: inside an abandoned migrant camp in Malaysia Read more Human rights groups have long accused Thai authorities of collusion in the trafficking industry, but officials have routinely denied the claims.
  • (6) The argument about academies and free schools is one thing, but this runs much deeper: even if they support what the government is doing to schools, people could be forgiven for expecting consistency, transparency and a model of government whereby ministers might understand that supposedly independent bodies have to be seen to be so, and that even the appearance of collusion can be toxic.
  • (7) The final stages of the race have been marked by allegations of corruption and collusion that led to a backlash against the British media among some Fifa executives.
  • (8) He turns up over and over again WikiLeaks published troves of hacked emails last year that damaged Hillary Clinton’s campaign and is suspected of having cooperated with Russia through third parties, according to recent congressional testimony by the former CIA director John Brennan , who also said the adamant denials of collusion by Assange and Russia were disingenuous.
  • (9) The Liberal Democrats, the only major political party not implicated in charges of collusion with past bribery on arms deals, last night joined anti-corruption campaigners in welcoming the findings: David Howarth, their justice spokesman, said "This is a devastating report."
  • (10) Lederer, a physician, objects to this application of patient autonomy because it might place the surgeon in legal jeopardy of collusion in suicide and would undermine the principles of nonmaleficence and mutual trust.
  • (11) Jared Kushner The president’s son-in-law is known to be a person of interest in the FBI investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
  • (12) But the alliance was pulled apart after regulators and judges rapped its members for collusion.
  • (13) Liberal and Labor have moved close together on cruelty to refugees to cutting funding to universities and on increasing coal exports, so I am not in the least bit surprised you’ve got this collusion,” she said.
  • (14) The recording of the chief minister at an Alice Springs Country Liberal party (CLP) branch meeting makes it clear he maintains he has evidence of political collusion between an unnamed senior police officer and a member of his cabinet.” Kelly called on Giles to provide evidence to the police minister if he had any, and to retract his statements in full and apologise if he did not.
  • (15) The diagnosis is often offered to doctors by patients; and we consider attribution, stigma, collusion between doctor and patient, and abnormal illness behaviour in this context.
  • (16) The retired master-spy was asked about an interview he had given in March, when he said there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia by the time he left his post on 20 January.
  • (17) Allegations of collusion resurfaced after anti-fascist protesters told the Guardian they had been "tortured by police" after clashes with Golden Dawn supporters.
  • (18) Miliband concedes that he does support certain coalition policies – on ID cards, prison policy, and an inquiry into British collusion in the torture of terrorist suspects, although he quickly adds, "I know my brother more than anyone else, and I know he would never sanction torture, implicitly or explicitly."
  • (19) Losing six children is tragedy enough, but through her own act of collusion in a bungled plot?
  • (20) Bickford said giving judges rather than cabinet ministers responsibility for authorising sensitive operations would "reduce the risk of perception of collusion … and limit the room for accusations of political interference."

Treason


Definition:

  • (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
  • (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
  • (2) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
  • (3) Instead of dealing with a political problem, China has sought confrontation and control – threatening new national security laws that outlaw treason .
  • (4) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
  • (5) December 5, 2013 10.21pm GMT Mandela was arrested in 1956 for "high treason" against the state, in a case that concluded without conviction.
  • (6) Arrested last year on suspicion of spying for arch-enemy Armenia, the couple also face treason charges in a separate case.
  • (7) But a Conservative MP who recently wrote to the Metropolitan police to call for a criminal investigation into the Guardian, accused the newspaper of potential treason.
  • (8) In addition to tax evasion and illegal business activities, she has also been charged with treason, for allegedly spying for Armenia.
  • (9) In a statement to a Senate judiciary committee he accused the British actor of coming “perilously near to treason” against the United States.
  • (10) On Monday the Sunni Ittehad Council, an umbrella group representing followers of the moderate Barelvi school of Islam , demanded Hassan be tried for treason.
  • (11) Pakistan's official commission investigating Bin Laden's presence in the country last year recommended that Afridi be tried for treason.
  • (12) Musharraf was dramatically diverted to a military hospital on 2 January after feeling a "heaviness" in his chest while he was driving to his treason trial.
  • (13) Everyone who happens to threaten or is perceived to be threatening his position is accused of committing a treasonous act, even if he doesn’t prove it.
  • (14) But pro-European presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, known as the "chocolate king," who currently leads in the polls, said on Thursday that any delay of the elections would be "treason" and would not happen no matter the circumstances.
  • (15) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
  • (16) Most were men and most had been convicted of murder, although Thomas and Albert also executed some prisoners who had been convicted of treason.
  • (17) But if that has turned not out to be true – if it is less and less accepted in rightward-drifting Israeli society that there can be such a thing as non-political information, and B’Tselem’s traditional activities are dismissed as treason – what point is there in trying any more?
  • (18) It is believed that Dokuchayev and Mikhailov face treason charges, which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
  • (19) Whenever we had a special campaign or an important political case - for example, the treason trial - we received financial assistance from sympathetic individuals and organisations in the western countries.
  • (20) "Generals like those in charge of Ilovaysk should be imprisoned for treason," said Skillt.