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  • Yet in her own life, with three children at home, the men who should have been most loyal to her—her brothers and husband—conspired against her.†   (source)
  • But who would bother conspiring against him?†   (source)
  • I think I know part of the reason why your grandfather conspired to put us together.†   (source)
  • He was also certain the judge and the DA had already conspired.†   (source)
  • At Bod's approach they looked up, startled, then fled into the undergrowth, as if they had been caught conspiring.†   (source)
  • And the world is conspiring against you," says Will.†   (source)
  • The Eastmans, like Dan, believed in the powers of a good private-school education— specifically, in the case of Noah and Simon, in the power to rescue those two daredevils from the standard fates of rural, north country boys: the marriage of driving fast on the back roads, and beer; and the trailer-park girls in the back seats of those cars, those girls who successfully conspired to get pregnant before their high-school graduations.†   (source)
  • The concussions from the bombs, the drug lingering in my system, the loss of blood, the darkness …. all of it conspires to pin me down.†   (source)
  • That Paul Marshall, Lola Quincey and she, Briony Tallis, had conspired with silence and falsehoods to send an innocent man to jail?†   (source)
  • Nothing has conspired to kill me in weeks.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, Old Chong and my mother conspired to have me play in a talent show which would be held in the church hall.†   (source)
  • You are accused of sending a hired knife to slay my son Bran in his bed, and of conspiring to murder Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King.†   (source)
  • Deborah yelled at Speed, accused her of conspiring with Cofield, and said she was going to hire O. J. Simpson's lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, and sue Speed for everything she had if she didn't shut down the foundation and stop all Henrietta-related activities.†   (source)
  • They'll believe the Greeks have conspired with giants.†   (source)
  • THE UNIVERSE AND my subconscious may be conspiring against me.†   (source)
  • Because they'll always be conspiring against you, trying to hold you back and drag you down.†   (source)
  • Fate, however, conspired against us again just a few days before I was to return home.†   (source)
  • Wagon wheels and iron-shod hooves had conspired to tear up the ground, making many sections impassable.†   (source)
  • How stupid, that they had not even conspired to get their story straight.†   (source)
  • That baldness, the absence of any facial hair, and the loose robes that fell in a straight line to the ground, all conspired to make it very difficult to tell the men from the women.†   (source)
  • It was part of being hopelessly poor that events conspired to keep you poor; if it wasn't one thing, it was another.†   (source)
  • They were unaware that the Garretts, already guilty of inhospitality, were conspiring to commit a worse offense: treachery.†   (source)
  • Conspiring to sell weapons to people he viewed as enemies was worse than any of the other scenarios for which I'd been preparing.†   (source)
  • 6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of having conspired with seven other firms to fix prices in the catfish industry.†   (source)
  • The truth is, potential mothers and people who conspire with potential mothers to allow abortion will pay forever in the afterlife.†   (source)
  • It was as though the elements were conspiring to ruin their short week of freedom.†   (source)
  • That afternoon—while in the bathroom the fates conspired to horribly alter the course of their mysterious mother's road, while in Velutha's backyard an old boat waited for them, while in a yellow church a young bat waited to be born—in their mother's bedroom, Estha stood on his head on Rahel's bum.†   (source)
  • If I had the time, I would take them to be properly trained, gradually Awaken their dormant powers but events have conspired against me, and time is that one precious commodity I do not have.†   (source)
  • Finally, however, we reached our journey's end — number 10 Noakowski Street — where I was to hide on the fifth floor in an artist's studio which was at the disposal of Piotr Perkowski, one of the leaders of the musicians conspiring against the Germans at this time.†   (source)
  • She'll think you conspired to hide me.†   (source)
  • He thought that all the moments in the day, which had once been his allies and sworn accomplices, were beginning to conspire against him.†   (source)
  • Could a woman conspire against her own son?†   (source)
  • Bella takes some looking after, and you're strong enough that you could protect her from herself, and from everything that conspires against her.†   (source)
  • It all conspired to create a setting that was about as conducive to amorous relations as a convent.†   (source)
  • When they told him he could no longer wear his sword in public he conspired to kill men he hardly knew— government officials, men with families who lived near us, who were kind to us, whose children we played with.†   (source)
  • Time and misfortune, however, conspired against him, and he settled finally on a profession that brought him both freedom and satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Tell us," they said, but he shook his head and didn't say anything and gave me a sweet little conspiring smile.†   (source)
  • To help him, all I could do was conspire with another geisha to slow the pace of the game.†   (source)
  • He is just tired-profoundly exhausted-after unavoidable circumstances have conspired to smear him, suit and all, with dust.†   (source)
  • I had suspected then that they were conspiring against me.†   (source)
  • Prison and the authorities conspire to rob each man of his dignity.†   (source)
  • Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been.†   (source)
  • He never bred the horse at the same hour two days running and he conspired with John Grady in telling the hacendado that the horse needed to be ridden to keep it manageable.†   (source)
  • The 1919 Chicago White Sox, who conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series (and are therefore known forever as the Black Sox), retain a stench of iniquity among even casual baseball fans.†   (source)
  • But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another, Colin knew.†   (source)
  • Your history and ours conspire against us.†   (source)
  • How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence.†   (source)
  • I had not quite given up on the idea of the blissful sibling relationship that my mother wanted for us, but events always conspired, it seemed, to make this impossible.†   (source)
  • Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans.†   (source)
  • This is why they made no effort to prepare the child for life, since the stars had already conspired to endow her with so many gifts.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf cared very deeply about winning parades and about bringing Clevinger up on charges before the Action Board for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the cadet officers Lieutenant Scheisskopf had appointed.†   (source)
  • They had to watch and wait and conspire and cajole, protecting and securing their investments.†   (source)
  • She and Alex Cross had conspired to ruin his unique creation, his precious and very private art, his life as it had been.†   (source)
  • A creeping disarray in Barbara's life back home conspired against her plan to bake sweet potato pies for Cedric.†   (source)
  • But from that time on, everything seemed to conspire against him.†   (source)
  • Fate and Genet had conspired to kill my liver, but Shiva had a role in Genet's fate, and hence my fate.†   (source)
  • We kept our talks secret, knowing Mia would've killed us had she thought we were conspiring.†   (source)
  • And I didn't like the way my father seemed to appear in all of this—as if he were conspiring behind Reb Saunders' back to contaminate his son.†   (source)
  • He's convinced the white folks around here will conspire to invalidate the will and keep the money.†   (source)
  • How dare she conspire with Qurong to withhold what was his!†   (source)
  • The Universe Is Conspiring to Help Us KEVIN KELLY WHEN I WAS IN MY TWENTIES, I would hitchhike to work every day.†   (source)
  • I have never conspired with anyone.†   (source)
  • My looks, the girls-I look like you, Dad-they all conspired against me.†   (source)
  • The men who conspired against Salander—he thought of them as the Zalachenko club—were inside the Security Police.†   (source)
  • Their separation was more grievous than any, for as she confided discreetly "circumstances" conspired.†   (source)
  • THE NEXT AFTERNOON he roused himself to attend two deathbeds, but Elinor and I conspired to keep from him another piece of news that bore more nearly on the living.†   (source)
  • I loved her — everybody, even my father, conspired to spoil her, with an endearing lack of success.†   (source)
  • The magus has disappeared, and his apprentice says that he conspired with us.†   (source)
  • Gazing at a neighboring hill, Max saw Cynthia and Lucia conspiring beneath an oak, making their final preparations.†   (source)
  • Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.†   (source)
  • The theory holds that Giancana conspired to have Monroe murdered by a team of four hit men who entered her home, taped her mouth shut, and injected a lethal suppository of barbiturates and chloral hydrate into her anus.†   (source)
  • Maybe just because the world conspires against her.†   (source)
  • The results will be annoying and maybe disbelieved by those who saw sinister forces conspiring to bring about the three crashes in rapid-fire succession.†   (source)
  • For the Corps conspired to protect me, to give me time for collecting myself, for surrendering myself up to whatever force took up residence within when my roommate died.†   (source)
  • Mallos then walked to the throne saying, "They are all conspiring to incite the Milago into a revolt against us, your majesty.†   (source)
  • The Order priestess and the deceiver have conspired with the Hajin to take the power!†   (source)
  • The pain of his feet, the foul taste of the rice, and the rolling of the ship were all conspiring to create a heaving bilious churning in his belly.†   (source)
  • We moved as mutely and as deftly as we could bear, muffling ourselves in one another's hair and neck so as not to wake him, but then, too, of course, so we could hear the sound of his sleeping, his breathing, ours, that strange conspiring.†   (source)
  • The wind, smoke, and sideways jolts of the freight car conspired to throw him off, but they couldn't accomplish the maneuver.†   (source)
  • April looked like she wanted to hang out with us, but it wouldn't do for us to look like we were conspiring.†   (source)
  • If judges didn't conspire with the legislature, they would rule that the State law was contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional, and void.†   (source)
  • Then I thought about the argument I'd have to assert—that it was likely the guards at Northeast would conspire to murder him.†   (source)
  • But in 2011 two events conspired to revive its fortunes: the outbreak of civil war in Syria and the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq.†   (source)
  • He stopped looking at it and began to stare at the stem of his Martini glass, looking worried and vaguely, unfairly conspired against.†   (source)
  • She would not have guessed him a conspiring type.†   (source)
  • Everything had conspired to push black Africa into every kind of tyranny.†   (source)
  • Against the poor unlucky policeman all the physical and spiritual forces of the universe seem to conspire.†   (source)
  • Suppose we can go into court and prove that he killed Manuel, or conspired to have him killed?†   (source)
  • She conspired into the telephone for hours after that.†   (source)
  • Everything conspired to insure his success: his prewar reputation as a disunionist, his service as a Confederate official, the fact that Sumner was widely hated in Mississippi and in the South, and his own exceptional skill as anorator.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (Formally) That you did conspire traitorously and maliciously to deny and deprive our liege lord Henry of his undoubted certain title, Supreme Head of the Church in England.†   (source)
  • The fact he knew, or guessed, about Mary, the fact these two men were conspiring to ignore, could be stated easily enough.†   (source)
  • The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall
  • They conspired to overthrow the government
    conspired = secretly planned together
  • "She says Father conspired at treason with the king's brothers," he read.†   (source)
  • So she conspired with Wu Tsing to lure your mother to his bed.†   (source)
  • It just felt like fate was conspiring against us.†   (source)
  • And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.†   (source)
  • But somehow conspiring to make Hatsumomo suffer wasn't the pleasure I might have imagined.†   (source)
  • I say, as evenly as possible: "You conspired with Erudite.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she doesn't conspire against her son.†   (source)
  • Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.†   (source)
  • And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice?†   (source)
  • So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.†   (source)
  • "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it," he had said.†   (source)
  • "When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it," the old king had said.†   (source)
  • There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.†   (source)
  • How could so many events have conspired together?†   (source)
  • I conspire in my mind to hurt him, while at the same time worshiping him.†   (source)
  • The town conspiring against him while Erin got away.†   (source)
  • Dismissal aside, he could be sent to prison for conspiring against the government.†   (source)
  • Could he have been plotting with the Imp all the while, conspiring at Father's death?†   (source)
  • Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate.†   (source)
  • At this point, there are at least four Confederate groups conspiring to harm the president.†   (source)
  • 'Maybe it's the universe conspiring against you.†   (source)
  • Jon climbed from the water, dried, dressed, and left them to conspire.†   (source)
  • "Well," Artemis said, "to be fair, there was that time you conspired with Hera to overthrow him."†   (source)
  • Exhaustion and habits further conspired against me.†   (source)
  • I'm prepared to believe that certain circumstances must have conspired against you.†   (source)
  • Säpo conspired with a psychiatrist to lock Salander up in an asylum.†   (source)
  • "Nature and art have conspired to render everything here delightful," he wrote to Abigail.†   (source)
  • Someone conspired with the Tanmind, someone who had access to those guns.†   (source)
  • You do realize that to conspire with the Horde has always been treasonous to us?†   (source)
  • I found it hard to believe that you would conspire against me.†   (source)
  • And yet you conspire for the dragon queen, and not against her.†   (source)
  • A week earlier, thirst, hunger, and the hot sun had even conspired to drive two men into madness.†   (source)
  • The ex praetor who conspired to betray her own people with this Graecus?†   (source)
  • "I had hoped to do this properly," said Roran, "but events have conspired against me.†   (source)
  • A group of people could conspire against the State government.†   (source)
  • Had they been conspiring to steal her away from me from that first night with their singing?†   (source)
  • But events are already conspiring against Atzerodt.†   (source)
  • The legislature and executive would have to conspire for a long time.†   (source)
  • She may be conspiring with the Yunkai'i even as we sit here.†   (source)
  • King Baelor forgave those who conspired against him.†   (source)
  • Just as importantly, they weren't conspiring with the Horde, which would be treason.†   (source)
  • He may have been conspiring with Tyrion.†   (source)
  • The Imp was clever enough to have conspired in his own escape.†   (source)
  • Justin hadn't conspired, but it wouldn't have mattered either way.†   (source)
  • Have you conspired to betray the people of Elyon?†   (source)
  • Not if her own uncle was conspiring with her enemies ….†   (source)
  • Quentyn should be the one conspiring against me.†   (source)
  • They said you had tried to conspire against him, you and Fiedler.†   (source)
  • Conspiring to sabotage the security of the people.†   (source)
  • You conspired with Fiedler against Mundt, that's what they said.†   (source)
  • If they stay out, they think it is conspiring against them.†   (source)
  • All the risks I took to get here—conspiring with Marcus, asking the Erudite for help, crawling across a ladder three stories up, shooting myself in a simulation—and all the sacrifices I made—my relationship with Tobias, Fernando's life, my standing among the Dauntless—were for nothing.†   (source)
  • Could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits — and then Remould it nearer to the heart's Desire!†   (source)
  • She was trying to keep her spirits up, but the boredom, the tedium, the hourly uncertainty about the health of her unborn child, were conspiring to drag her down.†   (source)
  • Three of Archer Daniels Midland's top officials, including Michael Andreas, its vice chairman, were sent to federal prison in 1999 for conspiring with foreign rivals to control the international market for lysine (an important feed additive).†   (source)
  • And here at the heart of the city, right under the sweep of the searchlights, was Rick's Café Americain, where the beleaguered could assemble for the moment to gamble and drink and listen to music; to conspire, console, and most importantly, hope.†   (source)
  • They weren't partial or biased, just very persuasive in detailing how organic brain damage, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can conspire to create severe mental impairment.†   (source)
  • We conspire in the fiction — or what is rapidly becoming the fiction — that I can fend for But the strain of make-believe is beginning to tell on her.†   (source)
  • "This man came a guest into my house, and there conspired to murder my son, a boy of seven," she proclaimed to the room at large, pointing.†   (source)
  • But here, at last, circumstance had conspired not to distract the Count, but to present him with the time and solitude necessary to give the book its due.†   (source)
  • He wondered which of them had sent the footpad to silence the Stark boy, and whether they had truly conspired at the death of Lord Arryn.†   (source)
  • Hadn't he rhapsodized over how the constellations seemed to halt in their course when on a warm summer's night one lay on one's back and listened for footsteps in the grass—as if nature itself were conspiring to lengthen the last few hours before daybreak, so that they could be savored to the utmost?†   (source)
  • But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.†   (source)
  • The wine, the food, the sun, the sway of the litter, the buzzing of the flies, all conspired to make Tyrion sleepy.†   (source)
  • When Daniel disappeared from our lives, I couldn't escape the conclusion that fate had conspired against her for the last and final time.†   (source)
  • The fresh air, the breeze in their faces, and the gentle movement of the boat all conspired to ease their earlier nervousness.†   (source)
  • But what neither Sarah nor Miles could know was that although they were ready to put the past behind them, events would soon conspire to make that impossible.†   (source)
  • His former lieutenant may have gone off the deep end, but he would never conspire against his own people.†   (source)
  • The gods only knew who they were conspiring with, or what they had mixed in those potions they gave you.†   (source)
  • The place must have been magnificent long ago, but like so many rural homes around Hampton, time and the elements had conspired against it.†   (source)
  • The scroll frozen halfway between his chin and the table, his slightly parted mouth, and the quizzical frown upon his brow conspired to give him the stunned appearance of a man who had just seen something he did not understand.†   (source)
  • It had taken on a soft nether light under the orange spots, the boatman leaning with eternal indolence against his tiller while the sunset blazed around him and the buildings conspired together over urban waters.†   (source)
  • How this came to be, they did not know, but the shadows, the great expanse of dark wooden flooring, and the snow-covered mountains that they could see through the windows seemed to conspire to lift and hold the paintings as if they were balanced atop columns of water or light.†   (source)
  • And there was no time for Yossarian to save himself from combat once Colonel Cathcart issued his announcement raising the missions to eighty late that same afternoon, no time to dissuade Nately from flying them or even to conspire again with Dobbs to murder Colonel Cathcart, for the alert sounded suddenly at dawn the next day and the men were rushed into the trucks before a decent breakfast could be prepared, and they were driven at top speed to the briefing room and then out to the…†   (source)
  • But fate had conspired to ruin all that, and now he spent long portions of his days wondering whether it was humanly possible to fix things between them.†   (source)
  • For ten years or more, both of her daughters had often, if impotently, conspired to throw out this veteran kimono.†   (source)
  • Why should they conspire against us?†   (source)
  • It was alleged that Yawkey and three other men conspired to burn the home of one Jake Brigance, in the town of Clanton.†   (source)
  • The elements seemed to be conspiring to drive them back as John opened the Geographica and turned it to the page Artus needed.†   (source)
  • No matter how bad the weather, soiled the past, broken the heart, hellish the war, I believe all that is behind the universe is conspiring to help us--if we will humble ourselves enough to let it.†   (source)
  • For the past several months, and more so, in recent weeks, Sukeena and I have conspired-yes, I choose my words carefullyon some way to do away with John Rimbauer.†   (source)
  • He said that his enemies were conspiring with the generals to launch a coup d'etat because they would rather see democracy dead than be governed by him.†   (source)
  • Jon Arryn's widow, Hoster Tully's daughter, Catelyn Stark's sister …. whose husband was conspiring with Stannis Baratheon at the time of his death."†   (source)
  • The thought of anyone, much less one's royal flesh and blood, conspiring with their enemy was hardly manageable.†   (source)
  • The new charges were read: we were alleged to have recruited persons for sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of starting a violent revolution; we had allegedly conspired to aid foreign military units to invade the republic in order to support a Communist revolution; and we had solicited and received funds from foreign countries for this purpose.†   (source)
  • As the deserter turned, Alessandro tried to strike him in the face with the rock, but gravity conspired against him and the blow landed to the side.†   (source)
  • There would be nothing to stop other southern states from passing laws that conspire against the Federal government—in effect, keeping the Confederacy's ideals alive.†   (source)
  • Gasping furiously for air, Clevinger enumerated Yossarian's symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.†   (source)
  • They had met earlier at Passy, corresponded over naval matters, and Jones, quite unjustly, had decided that Adams, in his role ascommissioner, was conspiring against him.†   (source)
  • Although I had conspired my entire married life for my husband never to bring in a concubine, I looked at him and felt sympathy for him.†   (source)
  • Salander hacked Teleborian's computer, and we can follow the correspondence that shows how Teleborian is conspiring with Jonas in the same way he conspired with Björck in 1991.†   (source)
  • Bo Buck had once been a judge in Nevada before things conspired to wreck his life, and he and Lucien enjoyed swapping stories.†   (source)
  • However, the years spent away from their families and their country, and the traumatic events that each had endured during their capture, enslavement, liberation, and imprisonment among the Americans, had conspired to twist their casual sense of time so that the weeks stretching before them on the sea now seemed like an eternity.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart knew that Major — de Coverley was away and he rejoiced in his absence until it occurred to him that Major — de Coverley might be away somewhere conspiring against him, and then he wished that Major — de Coverley were back in his squadron where he belonged so that he could be watched.†   (source)
  • In September General Benedict Arnold had conspired to commit treason, to turn over the fortress at West Point to the British, and when found out, defected to the enemy.†   (source)
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