(v. i.) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
(v. i.) To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at.
(v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite his advocacy on behalf of leftists and nationalists, there were those who believed he connived to ensure that the left faction did not get the upper hand in the PAP.
(2) Wealthy individuals and religious foundations in Saudi Arabia , Kuwait, Qatar and elsewhere in the Gulf have channelled millions of dollars to the anti-Assad opposition, though it is not clear with what degree of official connivance.
(3) So while the Turkish parliament congratulated itself on a long night’s defence of democracy, many wonder why its members connived in the decline of the rule of law.
(4) They should never have connived in the absurd policy of allowing housing benefit to soar to pay ever-higher rents for those on benefit or in low-paid jobs and simultaneously permitting council houses to be sold without their replacement.
(5) – with the connivance of the Sun, a headline on whose front page reading THE TRUTH is in any circumstances beyond satire.
(6) Her summary of the issues underscored several key points, among them the reality that the publishers were as conniving as Apple, but that they perceived Apple's market power too strong to challenge.
(7) According to Robert Gates, the former US defence secretary, Washington was so keen to oust the Afghan president that officials connived in delaying an Afghan presidential election in 2009 and then tried to manipulate the outcome in a "clumsy and failed putsch".
(8) On Monday the Russian foreign ministry denounced the lawlessness it said “now rules in eastern regions of Ukraine as a result of the actions of fighters of the so-called Right Sector, with the full connivance” of Ukraine’s new authorities.
(9) Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader whose trial for the Bosnian genocide began last month in The Hague, lived openly for years in Serbian army barracks with the connivance of sympathetic senior officers.
(10) It is a story of deceit that has left thousands of British refugees living in misery for the past 40 years, exiled from their island home by a conniving and unrepentant government."
(11) Horman had spotted US warships off the Chilean coast at Valparaiso shortly after the coup and had believed this showed signs of American connivance.
(12) This process of polarisation and mutual alienation culminated last Friday with Obama’s active connivance in the passing of a landmark UN security council resolution.
(13) A lot of people, including the opposition, have connived in giving this a humanitarian gloss.
(14) "The mafia that invests, that launders money, that therefore has the real power, is the mafia which has got rich for years from its connivance with the church," said Gratteri.
(15) A third actor, the one who plays the conniving lady's maid Sarah O'Brien, has now left the cast too.
(16) But abuse and criminal activity on this sort of scale cannot possibly happen without passive connivance from the very top.
(17) Meanwhile, in a (seemingly) parallel story, medieval dullard Alaïs must protect the (apparently) same ring from gnashing crusaders and conniving sister Oriane, who is also banging Alaïs's expressionless husband.
(18) Israel's new ruler refused to meet Arafat, whom he charged with duplicity and connivance in murder.
(19) The newspaper said it had found evidence of widespread theft of ivory “perpetuated by [Uganda Wildlife Authority] staff” who connive with wildlife traffickers.
(20) The Liberal Democrats have disowned their former icon, Sir Cyril Smith, amid evidence of appalling and repeated sexual abuse of children, as a new controversy raged over allegations that police, spies and politicians connived in an establishment cover-up of his activities.
Scheme
Definition:
(n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
(n.) A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
(n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
(n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
(v. t.) To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
(v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(2) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(3) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(4) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(5) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
(6) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
(7) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(8) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(9) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(10) Based on these findings and those described before, an overall degradation scheme is postulated.
(11) The contrast obtained is strongly dependent on the phase encoding scheme used.
(12) Theoretical 13C NMR spectra for all possible structures of some linear polysaccharides were calculated by using additive scheme of glycosidation effects.
(13) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
(14) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(15) Trials of these therapeutic schemes promise a higher efficacy of the therapeutic measures for gastroesophageal reflux.
(16) Methods of analysis for some deterministic and stochastic variants of the integrate-to-threshold neural coding scheme are presented.
(17) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
(18) A simplified scheme for the grading of trachoma and its complications has been developed by the W.H.O.
(19) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(20) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.