(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.
Ringleader
Definition:
(n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
(n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government blamed the opposition, jailing alleged ringleader Vladimir Kozlov amid an international outcry, closing down his party and shutting dozens of independent media outlets.
(2) Albums include Viva Hate, Vauxhall And I, and Ringleader Of The Tormentors.
(3) French, who has joined the nightly marches, said police appeared to have caught agitator ringleaders the previous 24 hours.
(4) Prison staff are working with Nottinghamshire Police to identify the ringleaders.
(5) Muktar Said-Ibrahim, the suspected ringleader, was seen in Rome several weeks before the failed attack, two witnesses told the Guardian yesterday.
(6) A former journalist, Vladimir Anikeev, believed to be the ringleader of the group, is also among those arrested, according to reports.
(7) And the BBC reports that Spanish police targeted "ringleaders" behind the "Occupy Congress" movement.
(8) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
(9) They were arrested reportedly because they were believed to have been ringleaders in earlier protests over the weekend.
(10) French media stressed that it was a public tip-off that ultimately helped police locate Abdeslam, just as it had been for the ringleader, Abaaoud.
(11) Abdeslam hunt map Belgian investigators have placed Abdeslam – a childhood friend of the terror cell’s ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud – in Budapest in early September, and later on the Austrian border, allegedly picking up two of the attackers who had joined the flow of refugees and migrants heading up through the Balkans.
(12) The court, however, accepted a petition from lawyers for the accused ringleader – Yosef Haim Ben David, 31 – to reconsider a claim of insanity.
(13) Along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the 13 November attacks in Paris, Kriket was convicted in absentia last July of recruiting Islamist fighters for Syria in Belgium .
(14) Reader’s fellow ringleaders, John “Kenny” Collins, 75, Daniel Jones, 61, and Terry Perkins, 67, were each jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last September.
(15) Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton , has praised Papua New Guinean authorities for “professionally” moving to end the standoff at the Manus Island detention centre by taking away alleged ringleaders.
(16) The support networks are so deeply implanted into Serbia's most powerful institutions that some question whether Vukcevic will go after their ringleaders.
(17) One of the Hatton Garden heist ringleaders has had a stroke, is being tested for suspected cancer and may not have long to live, a court has heard.
(18) We also need to consider if Singh's death, as the alleged ringleader of the conspiracy, will hurt the chances of bringing the other five suspects to justice.
(19) The files, which contained information dating back to the 1980s, contained descriptions such as "militant ringleader", "agitator", "is a good worker but has proved to be very militant", "do not touch", and "that subject is a very bad troublemaker and would not be re-employed".
(20) The Revolutionary Guards have accused Zaghari-Ratcliffe of fomenting a “soft overthrow” of the Islamic Republic and being the ringleader of a network of “hostile institutions” associated with foreign intelligence agencies, allegations that her husband has said are untrue.