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  • Lucas of House Samos, for crimes against the crown, for collusion with the terrorist organization known as the Scarlet Guard, I declare you guilty.†   (source)
  • But: did Horst and Sascha collude to make painting vanish in the first place, to Frankfurt, with bad Miami deal?†   (source)
  • I mean, I'm happy that you two colluded on your story and that you weren't arrested, because that would have made your working here impossible.†   (source)
  • The FTC inquiry concluded that the five major meatpacking firms had secretly fixed prices for years, had colluded to divide up markets, and had shared livestock information to guarantee that ranchers received the lowest possible price for their cattle.†   (source)
  • Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.†   (source)
  • And so will our innocent children, for we are colluding when we allow these crimes to be committed.†   (source)
  • "They wouldn't expel you," I said easily "You're guilty of Willful Collusion at the very most.†   (source)
  • Instead, women across the nation colluded in our degradation!†   (source)
  • Mary used to be suspicious that people like you were actually colluding with the government, which of course isn't true.†   (source)
  • But the bulkiest of Hickock's mud pies was aimed at the two defense attorneys, Arthur Fleming and Harrison Smith, whose "incompetence and inadequacy" were the chief cause of the correspondent's present predicament, for no real defense had been prepared or offered by them, and this lack of effort, it was implied, had been deliberate-an act of collusion between the defense and the prosecution.†   (source)
  • She did not look toward him, walked in a measured way, looking down at the ground; yet, he felt that she saw him, was aware of him standing on the cruel wall, and waited, in collusion with her brother, for his death.†   (source)
  • The two men exchange a look-it seems to Yolanda-of collusion.†   (source)
  • He found he was breathing in rhythm with the horse as if some part of the horse were within him breathing and then he descended into some deeper collusion for which he had not even a name.†   (source)
  • But perhaps there are further clues in the data that prove collusion.†   (source)
  • Frustrated, she whipped off the blindfold and accused us of moving and of being in collusion.†   (source)
  • And how could those guns have come here without Lieutenant Awn's collusion?"†   (source)
  • Now try collusion, down deep and elusive and after all these years still breathing, still alive.†   (source)
  • It made me want to leave at once, before Doc could say whatever he meant to say to me, so that I could not be considered in collusion with him.†   (source)
  • The sun seemed to he in collusion with the cadre.†   (source)
  • Subvert Liberty: Executive, Legislative Collusion†   (source)
  • ? was a merely systematic evil in which the participating doctors had no part, I set down in cold print, with facts and figures, the inhuman collusion of doctors and hospital administrations--the kind of collusion which results in thousands of deaths per week throughout this country: Negroes left to die in hospital waitingrooms, indigents not admitted or inadequately treated, outpatient cases not followed up because of bills unpaid at discharge.†   (source)
  • They'll suspect collusion.†   (source)
  • Collusion, corrupt practices, and gonorrhea.†   (source)
  • Since the informants have no knowledge of each other, there could hardly be collusion.†   (source)
  • Mockingly, he invites my sympathy and collusion.†   (source)
  • You'll make 'em all feel they're in collusion with you.†   (source)
  • They're sending a man into Monarch to dig up collusion between you and that appraiser, Graham.†   (source)
  • Inside collusion implies-†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think they're in collusion.†   (source)
  • He had expected to encounter antagonism, even confrontation, and instead was being offered sly, misguided collusion.†   (source)
  • Although competition between the large processors has indeed led to lower costs for consumers, price fixing and collusion have devastated independent ranchers and farmers.†   (source)
  • This idea hangs between us, almost visible, almost palpable: heavy, formless, dark; collusion of a sort, betrayal of a sort.†   (source)
  • In any case she didn't kill or mutilate Aunt Elizabeth, who a few days later, after she'd recovered from her seven hours behind the furnace and presumably from the interrogation — for the possibility of collusion would not have been ruled out, by the Aunts or by anyone else — was back in operation at the Center.†   (source)
  • It's the attraction of dirty words we aren't supposed to say, words like bum; the attraction of conspiracy, of collusion.†   (source)
  • If a zealous citizen wants to take on the task and if there is collusion between the parties involved, it would be easy to make each participant's part in the plan so ambiguous that no one could discover the precise conduct of each member of the council.†   (source)
  • Treachery at the highest levels of China's government, treachery at the hands of the despised Nationalists, assumed to be in collusion with Western financial interests.†   (source)
  • It's especially interesting to note that by the two wrestlers' second subsequent meeting, the win percentages revert to the expected level of about 50 percent, suggesting that the collusion spans only two matches.†   (source)
  • I believe that's called collusion and restraint of trade, legal terms that we in the Soviet Union have no problems with, as the state sets prices.†   (source)
  • It goes under the heading of 'military industrial complex,' which freely translated means military-industrial collusion.†   (source)
  • They would have to be willing to beg, barter, collude, and if necessary, resort to chicanery.†   (source)
  • I'd written the letter in collusion with Raymond so as to entice his mistress to his room and subject her to ill-treatment by a man "of more than dubious reputation.†   (source)
  • There was collusion, sir, or that villain never would have escaped.†   (source)
  • They are both written in good faith, I have no doubt, and without any collusion.†   (source)
  • I had only succeeded in adding to her anguish the hint of some mysterious collusion, of an inexplicable and incomprehensible conspiracy to keep her for ever in the dark.†   (source)
  • She's NOT in collusion with the matron.†   (source)
  • The Liberal Government (clearly by collusion) was beaten by the Conservatives, though the latter were nominally much in the minority.†   (source)
  • 'tis true, indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.†   (source)
  • Should there be found a citizen zealous enough to undertake the unpromising task, if there happen to be collusion between the parties concerned, how easy it is to clothe the circumstances with so much ambiguity, as to render it uncertain what was the precise conduct of any of those parties?†   (source)
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