What's the difference between conspiracy and crime?

Conspiracy


Definition:

  • (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
  • (n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
  • (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) September 11 conspiracies Facebook Twitter Pinterest September 11 conspiracy theories.
  • (2) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (3) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
  • (4) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
  • (5) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
  • (6) That's what I call a conspiracy between the prime minister and the press."
  • (7) Warner, a government minister in his country, suggested on Trinidadian television that the allegations were a conspiracy.
  • (8) GetUp’s conspiracy theories are a matter for them,” he said.
  • (9) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (10) Channel 5's Val Kilmer action adventure film repeat Thirteen: Conspiracy, averaged 1 million viewers, a 5.5% share, rising to 1.1 million and 5.8% including Channel 5+1.
  • (11) As his supporters gathered to demonstrate in Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid on Thursday evening, many claimed there was a conspiracy to bring down one of the world's best-known human rights investigators.
  • (12) "Was there a conspiracy between Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers to intercept voicemail messages?
  • (13) He was charged with a range of offences including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, banditry and criminal conspiracy.
  • (14) Now, it's either a case of gross incompetence or, as I said yesterday, I've got an increasing feeling that it is actually a case of an international criminal conspiracy."
  • (15) They found nothing and she says she is not a conspiracy theorist.
  • (16) Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front and a protest organiser, faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to provoke mass unrest.
  • (17) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (18) For now these private schools are protected, not just by the conspiracy of silence, but also by the law.
  • (19) US prosecutors wanted to charge Hayes on three counts of conspiracy to fraud, with each one carrying a 20 to 30-year sentence.
  • (20) In 1967, 18 men were prosecuted in a federal court on conspiracy charges relating to the case; seven were convicted but none served longer than six years.

Crime


Definition:

  • (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
  • (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
  • (n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
  • (n.) That which occasion crime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (2) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (3) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (4) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
  • (5) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
  • (6) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (7) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
  • (8) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
  • (9) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
  • (10) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (11) Anyone who has committed war crimes should be brought into the courts," the BBC reported him as saying.
  • (12) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
  • (13) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
  • (14) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
  • (15) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
  • (16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
  • (17) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
  • (18) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (19) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
  • (20) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.