(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.
Fiendish
Definition:
(a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
Example Sentences:
(1) By recklessly raising the military stakes in the Syrian cauldron, by acting unilaterally and without any manner of UN or collective mandate, by threatening to send aircraft into areas where American, Turkish and other anti-Isis forces are operating, Putin risks further complicating an already fiendishly complicated conflict.
(2) We're moving from one highly complex system – the renewable obligation – to something even more fiendishly complex."
(3) China's first stretch of railway track was built by a British firm in 1876, but soon dismantled on the orders of Chinese imperial officials who regarded it as a fiendish foreign invention.
(4) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
(5) There's plenty of culture too, with the Royal Danish Ballet and the Royal Opera staging an impressively varied programme of events that people like us, who have failed miserably to grasp the fiendishly complicated language, can still enjoy.
(6) Then there was the day Brydon had to eat a stuffed onion while nursing a fiendish hangover.
(7) The QM, so named because the late Queen Mother apparently used to have two before lunch, is a fiendish mix.
(8) Traders are "fiendish", "predators", hell-bent on stealing from the "decent, hard-working folk" to line their own pockets without an ounce of remorse.
(9) 11.18am BST This quiz from John Ashdown is fiendish .
(10) Politics and economics Getting 194 nations to agree on anything, let alone a re-tooling of the global energy system that drives economies, is fiendish.
(11) Looking ahead, how will HMRC, so weak at company tax collection, bring in the fiendishly complex universal credit without chaos?
(12) This is fiendishly difficult to get right, and efforts to calculate this figure began, like so many mathematical techniques, as a matter of marginal, somewhat nerdish interest during the 1930s.
(13) In 2013, the plan to introduce universal credit, which has been described as involving “fiendishly complicated calculations” had to be “reset to zero”, after more than £600m had been spent.
(14) But it's fiendishly complex to work out what you're entitled to and how you can boost it.
(15) Pogba’s athleticism and high-kneed running style makes him a fiendishly difficult opponent and, if anything, he needs some of the players around him to raise their own level of performance.
(16) But the most important factor was the misconception that computing was essentially about products – hardware and software – that were fiendishly expensive and required endless updating, maintenance and policing.
(17) The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it.
(18) The jury is out on whether Cameron will win his fight to get a fiendishly complicated renegotiation of the Lisbon treaty, with the aim of securing new British terms of EU membership that would then be put to a referendum in 2017 if Cameron wins a second term in 2015.
(19) For fiendish ingenuity, however, Facebook's latest move into the mobile phone business takes the biscuit.
(20) Cameron and his successor (that is, the Conservative leader who will fight the 2020 election) require a Labour leader plausible enough to compel Tory backbench discipline in the fiendishly difficult European negotiations ahead , and the referendum itself.