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  • Compared to the bookworms of the scientific world, your experience as a cop makes you far more likely to perceive such a large-scale conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Chuck's conspiracy-bent mind was always picking behind the news to the "real" story, but for once I was eager to hear his theories.†   (source)
  • By some extraordinary conspiracy of fate, at the very instant Nina made this pronouncement, the accordion player concluded an old favorite and the sparsely populated room broke into applause.†   (source)
  • With little trust in the press, there's no check on the Internet conspiracy theories that rule the digital world.†   (source)
  • Maybe he could say they were planted, that this was part of a larger conspiracy against him.†   (source)
  • Ralph had been calling our office almost daily with an unending stream of strange thoughts, ideas, and conspiracies.†   (source)
  • The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • They stood frozen, Mariam and Laila, eyes to the ground, as though looking at each other would give credence to the way Rasheed saw things, that while he was opening doors and lugging baggage for people who wouldn't spare him a glance a lewd conspiracy was shaping behind his back, in his home, in his beloved son's presence.†   (source)
  • Nor was it due to the mysterious interpretations attributed her by many art historians and conspiracy buffs.†   (source)
  • Further, there will be evidence that prior to the robbery there was a plan, or conspiracy, to rob the store.†   (source)
  • "Right or wrong," he says, "he has been convicted of theft and conspiracy."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Heine has told us that her deceased husband, in joint conspiracy with the defendant's deceased father, entered into an agreement which, shall we say, was predicated on a rather liberal, albeit mutually satisfying, interpretation of these laws.†   (source)
  • Your conspiracy theory brain always depressed me, Mercer.†   (source)
  • They don't know I'm here," and that said everything I needed to know about secrecy, conspiracy, danger.†   (source)
  • The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that.†   (source)
  • Aunt Martha grew very attentive—her eyes sparkling, her smile widening with mischief and conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Did he talk about the international banking conspiracy?†   (source)
  • There was something in it like the companionship of equals, which was strengthened by such little conspiracies as eating eggs in the bedroom.†   (source)
  • There was absolutely no proof that there had been a conspiracy between himself and the other two.†   (source)
  • She stopped again on the first landing to consolidate a scheme; she would keep well clear of her skittish cousin, not even catch her eye—she could not afford to be drawn into a conspiracy, nor did she wish to prompt a disastrous outburst.†   (source)
  • Some conspiracy theorists thought the princess had survived and was still alive somewhere, waiting for the right time to reclaim her crown and end Levana's rule of tyranny, but Cinder knew it was only desperation that fueled these rumors.†   (source)
  • Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.†   (source)
  • It didn't take long after the Arrival for all the conspiracy nuts to start buzzing about classified government projects or the secret plan to manufacture an alien crisis in order to take away our liberties.†   (source)
  • The head of the conspiracy has been shot.†   (source)
  • Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here.†   (source)
  • I have the urge to ask what sorts of people create alien conspiracies if it is bored farmers who create crop circles, but I don't.†   (source)
  • It's a bit too much like a conspiracy theory for me—I don't think our guardians were that crafty—but there's probably something in it.†   (source)
  • She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot.†   (source)
  • The conspiracy of voices greets the old woman who lives in an almost toppled, unpainted house next door; her back yard dense with overgrown weeds.†   (source)
  • Not like a conspiracy or anything.†   (source)
  • If she wants to believe in a government conspiracy, I don't think I can dissuade her.†   (source)
  • Stalingrad was now in the third month of its defence, and there had been a conspiracy in Warsaw: grenades were thrown into the German Cafe-Club.†   (source)
  • We hear less and less about the will and the estate as the story goes on, and even the surrogate goal, the mystery of the postal conspiracy, remains unresolved.†   (source)
  • I back off, apologizing, but Carol proceeds, moving from the conspiracy of TV transmissions to the voices that fill her head.†   (source)
  • He started walking again, nattering on and on about plots and conspiracies and battle plans and secrets, but truth be told, my mind drifted.†   (source)
  • He has done time for assault with a deadly weapon (1940), carrying a concealed weapon (1948), and conspiracy to commit tax fraud (1961) .†   (source)
  • Conversations focused mainly on conspiracy theories, the status of the fighting, and how to get out of the country—and since visas, which had long been near-impossible, were now truly impossible for nonwealthy people to secure, and journeys on passenger planes and ships were therefore out of the question, the relative merits, or rather risks, of the various overland routes were guessed at, and picked apart, again and again.†   (source)
  • It was called A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused.†   (source)
  • We're choosing between Sea Vegetable Conspiracy and Rock Solid Panda.†   (source)
  • Each officer in this room was a member of his conspiracy.†   (source)
  • The Conspiracy Just as the Candidate had predicted, the Socialists, in alliance with the other parties of the left, won the Presidential election.†   (source)
  • The assassin, a man named Rachidi Minzele, was immediately shot and killed, taking with him the only definitive knowledge about the motives behind his deed, which spawned a confounding web of conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • From the time of Lincoln's election in 1860, there arose several conspiracies to kidnap or murder him.†   (source)
  • In a flash of inspiration that she could not have explained, she was convinced that Fermina Daza had been the one behind the conspiracy to cheat her of the prize.†   (source)
  • Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, every sort of conspiracy theorist.†   (source)
  • Ah, this young monster has much to learn yet about conspiracy!†   (source)
  • And not just any warden, if he was to believe the conspiracy enthusiast Sal Weathers—the warden, the one who had changed Brookline's history and rehabilitated a serial killer.†   (source)
  • Some Coalwoodians saw a conspiracy in the whole thing.†   (source)
  • They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.†   (source)
  • Two years later, the workings of the conspiracy, and its underlying intentions, were exposed during a trial in Chicago.†   (source)
  • The rest of them, his sister and brothers, Aunt Maggie, Uncle Jeb, and Uncle Guy, were the most devoted of conspiracy theorists.†   (source)
  • As for theories of conspiracy and the most terrible pessimism, surely they'd cornered the world market on those.†   (source)
  • Of the Eumen conspiracy?†   (source)
  • As if the whole world was part of an international conspiracy to steal her Tupperware.†   (source)
  • We plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute and they drop the rest.†   (source)
  • James and Jack Davis, after various scrapes with the law, were arrested in 2003, charged with multiple counts of drug conspiracy, and placed in the D.C. Jail.†   (source)
  • The conspiracy is both held and withheld, exposed and sustained.†   (source)
  • The whole outlying district seemed to be in a conspiracy of silence.†   (source)
  • They're not members of a conspiracy or anything.†   (source)
  • Theirs was a "desperate conspiracy."†   (source)
  • You think there's some sort of conspiracy?†   (source)
  • The disappearance was astounding, as astounding, certainly, as the Grand Conspiracy of Lowery Field, when all sixty-four men in a single barrack vanished one payday and were never heard of again.†   (source)
  • He was far more likely to swear or go off on a tangent about Hanta virus and government conspiracy.†   (source)
  • There was a sly hint of conspiracy in her voice.†   (source)
  • He seemed not to suspect any conspiracy, but he was determined to keep us in view.†   (source)
  • As the swan was being served, the queen questioned him about the conspiracy of the Antler Men.†   (source)
  • My indictment in federal court for criminal conspiracy had been triggered by the collapse of my ex-lover's drugsmuggling operation.†   (source)
  • "Conspiracy to commit murder is a federal crime," I told her.†   (source)
  • His investigator clicked off the relevant facts: In 1985, Dennis Yawkey pled guilty in Ford County to one count of conspiracy to commit arson.†   (source)
  • Chapter 5 A Conspiracy Unmasked†   (source)
  • He was pleased he had caught them, and more pleased to be telling this to me, as if some long-held suspicion of conspiracy had finally been confirmed.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy would also spread less readily.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy seemed a stretch to me.†   (source)
  • There's no evidence that he's had anything to do with a kidnapping or any massive conspiracy to release a virus.†   (source)
  • If he was caught posing as a guard, the list of infractions would be endless: bribery, blackmail, identity theft, conspiracy, and whatever else the Council felt like adding to the mix.†   (source)
  • There's a regular conspiracy around here to kill you at Christmastime.†   (source)
  • Or it's some kind of conspiracy.†   (source)
  • They suspected it was some conspiracy between Tappan and Madden.†   (source)
  • The state contended that we were actors in a conspiracy to overthrow the government.†   (source)
  • From 1936 to 1940, Seabiscuit endured a remarkable run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and injury to establish himself as one of history's most extraordinary athletes.†   (source)
  • The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internaily.†   (source)
  • She reads the newspapers page by page for leftist conspiracies, jams her finger against imagined evidence and says, "See.†   (source)
  • Who knew conspiracy theories and sixties politics could be such a major turn-on?†   (source)
  • Deo was supposed to be collecting data and reviewing the scholarly literature for Joia, but he routinely became incensed at the papers arguing against treatment and would send Joia long diatribes, backed up not just with facts, but also with material from the websites of conspiracy theorists.†   (source)
  • They hated encyclopedias because they perceived conspiracies within them, conspiracies that were not only different from their own, but subversive.†   (source)
  • He swore half-aloud, with resentful malice, as if the loss, the rain and his head cold were someone's personal conspiracy against him.†   (source)
  • Also conspiracy to commit sabotage, conspiracy to incite revolution, terrorism, unauthorized national entry, traveling without passports, the carrying of firearms without permit, failure to register said weapons, conspiracy to do harm to His Imperial Majesty the Shahanshah of Iran.†   (source)
  • To come here suggesting that I should enter into an immoral, a criminal conspiracy to ....I think you must be mad, Harriet.†   (source)
  • It was a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy.†   (source)
  • We worked by contriving intricate and open-ended emotional conspiracies.†   (source)
  • NICK: (To GEORGE, with false heartiness) It's a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • One's mind could easily be tricked by such a conspiracy of heavens and earth.†   (source)
  • A conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Johnny Wayne was arrested and charged with both first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and because of the heinous nature of the crime, the State of Tennessee was seeking the death penalty.†   (source)
  • Foreign nations have invaded and developed conspiracies.†   (source)
  • A thirty-five-year-old officer from Pennsylvania wrote his wife that "sick as I am of this war and bloodshed, as much oh how much I want to be at home with my dear wife and children ...every day I have a more religious feeling, that this war is a crusade for the good of mankind....I [cannot] bear to think of what my children would be if we were to permit this Hellbegotten conspiracy to destroy this country."†   (source)
  • GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?†   (source)
  • Their conspiracy was vast and all-enveloping; it included generals and commandants; it controlled the honor court; it co-opted its victims; it was spectral, incorporeal, and evil.†   (source)
  • I find most interesting the conspiracy of life in the desert to circumvent the death rays of the all-conquering sun.†   (source)
  • Everywhere that air of conspiracy which generates among people who have been up since dawn—of superiority almost, from the common experience of having seen the night disappear and the morning come.†   (source)
  • Or he might even have tried to survive deal h. as a paranoia; as a pure conspiracy against someone he loved.†   (source)
  • The minute you give me my rights to vote when I pay taxes, to have a decent job, a decent home, a decent education—then you're taking that first step toward 'race-mixing' and that's part of the great secret conspiracy to ruin civilization—to ruin America.†   (source)
  • The plot is cute and complex, having largely to do with an alleged conspiracy on the part of Brandon Strathaway—Willard's tycoon father—to dispose of old Ezra, whose hideously mutilated corpse is indeed found one morning in the entrails of a mechanical cranberry picker.†   (source)
  • All he, Tag, lacked was the Old Man's invariable good luck in the conspiracy of outer events.†   (source)
  • It had begun as an open conspiracy against the Overlords, an implicit challenge to their policy if not to their power.†   (source)
  • (CROMWELL enters, carrying a bottle) CROMWELL Is this a good place for a conspiracy, innkeeper†   (source)
  • And yet he too seemed to be in the conspiracy.†   (source)
  • He never used to talk when he went to them, but he enjoyed the feeling of conspiracy, and the sound of voices.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, you thought, staring at their similarity-her hair was yellow, too-they were children together-cousins even, afflicted in the same way, sent off from home to the state institute.... It was the feeling of conspiracy.†   (source)
  • At the close of his tour, confident at least in his outward appearances, Benton addressed a letter to the people of Missouri: I know of no cause for this conspiracy against me, except that I am the natural enemy of all rotten politicians...I am for the Union as it is; and for that cause Mr. Calhoun denounced me for a traitor to the South...the signal to all his followers in Missouri to go to work upon me...The conspiracy is now established...Nullification resolutionspassed by fraud, which it was known I would not obey...Men appointed to attack me in all parts of the state...Packed meetings got up to condemn me...Newspapers enlisted in the service ....and many good citizens deceived.†   (source)
  • They looked up at him, frowning; glanced at each other swiftly—then away, as if afraid to acknowledge conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Instead, they believe that the point all along was to kill Cermak, as part of a Mafia conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Such a disloyal conspiracy by government officials is improbable.†   (source)
  • And when there is an open opportunity of conspiracy, all responsibility is lost.†   (source)
  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 was a spiderweb of conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Immediate steps are taken to ensure that a possible conspiracy is not completed.†   (source)
  • And we have nothing to fear from a widespread, permanent conspiracy of the States.†   (source)
  • Without an unacceptable increased expense, it cannot be large enough to exclude easy conspiracy.†   (source)
  • And it would not be easy to suddenly start a corrupt conspiracy.†   (source)
  • The largest number isn't too great for an easy conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Sinister plots by leaders in a few State legislatures might start a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Some came to this belief thanks to Oswald's comments and J. Edgar Hoover's insistence that there was a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Sam Giancana, the Chicago mobster, was also thought by conspiracy theorists to be tied to the Kennedy assassination.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald's public statement that he is a patsy fuels the flames that John Kennedy's death is part of a greater conspiracy.†   (source)
  • It is against federal law to initiate a conspiracy to kill the president, which is why J. Edgar Hoover is now insisting that JFK's murder was the act of many instead of just one.†   (source)
  • America would have more to fear from such a conspiracy than from the ambition of any single individual.†   (source)
  • Any involvement by Bobby Kennedy in Marilyn Monroe's death, whether it was suicide or murder, makes it a conspiracy theory without substance to this day.†   (source)
  • If a widespread conspiracy does develop, it will probably be because the national government becomes inept at advancing the people's happiness.†   (source)
  • Little do the horrified onlookers know, but historians and conspiracy theorists, as well as average citizens born years after this day, will long argue whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or perhaps had the help of others.†   (source)
  • The number has to be so great that conspiracy is difficult; otherwise conspiracies become a source of danger rather than security.†   (source)
  • There would be a greater temptation to continue a conspiracy with the governor of New York than the President.†   (source)
  • Supporters of the new Constitution have been indiscriminately charged with conspiracy against liberty.†   (source)
  • Couldn't a majority of a State, especially a small State, form a conspiracy and take over a State, just as it could happen in a county or city within a State?†   (source)
  • If the governor of New York led a conspiracy against public liberty and if the plan was discovered before it was carried out, New York's governor could pardon his coconspirators, something the President could not do.†   (source)
  • "Could he have been part of the conspiracy?" asks Caesar.†   (source)
  • I whisper back, because something in the conspiracy compels it, "Bodies?"†   (source)
  • "That sounds very much like a conspiracy theory," Jack says.†   (source)
  • He thinks doctors are part of a Government conspiracy.†   (source)
  • I've never thought to check the conspiracy-theory rags.†   (source)
  • Wes had completely forgotten about his conspiracy argument.†   (source)
  • We like conspiracy theories in Pakistan and we had many.†   (source)
  • Henrik is a bit of a conspiracy fanatic.†   (source)
  • The anti-Masonic conspiracy theorists would feed on this like sharks.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy theorists will tell you it stands for Matrimonio or Mary Magdalene.†   (source)
  • LeBlanc was accused of conspiracy, something to do with a château in Brittany.†   (source)
  • "There's no big conspiracy about it," I said, turning back to the boat.†   (source)
  • And you wanted no part of their little conspiracy theory?†   (source)
  • By 4:00 A.M., Stanton was sure that he was dealing with a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • The latest bit of nonsense is a Committee to Detect Conspiracies.†   (source)
  • What enemy is that, my conspiracy-loving friend?†   (source)
  • You can always tell when they go on and on about some conspiracy at work.†   (source)
  • Quite soon he was pointed out as the agent of an international conspiracy against public order.†   (source)
  • A warning not to start in on the conspiracy theories just yet.†   (source)
  • Even in conspiracy theory lore, Langdon could think of no references to any sixth brand.†   (source)
  • They tried to keep him surrounded, fearing that he would betray the conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Considering the evidence, I would say perhaps the conspiracy buffs are correct.†   (source)
  • You see aliens and alien conspiracies in every part of your life, including in your only friend.†   (source)
  • People had different conspiracy theories about what had happened.†   (source)
  • Stanton and others were certain Booth was merely an agent of a Confederate conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy theories flooded the airwaves.†   (source)
  • If there was anything that Americans were best at, it was conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • In Montreal, nests of rebel agents with plans and money were busy hatching anti-Union conspiracies.†   (source)
  • This was no conspiracy buff; Macri had actually heard of this guy.†   (source)
  • But what made for the most colorful listening were the conspiracy rants.†   (source)
  • Please tell me he somehow located Robert Langdon ....and not some Illuminati-conspiracy nutcase.†   (source)
  • "Finally, we get to the conspiracy theories," I said, turning to Chuck.†   (source)
  • She could accept his hatred of religion ....but this awesome conspiracy seemed beyond him.†   (source)
  • —will be speaking with conspiracy theorist Tyler Tingley, about this shocking resurgence—†   (source)
  • You're seeing conspiracies, exchanging someone else's freedom to feed your paranoia.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno had done more to condemn the Illuminati tonight than decades of conspiracy theorists.†   (source)
  • Nobody's used conspiracy to slaughter since the Urban Wars, Dallas.†   (source)
  • As if the class and Leon were banded together in a secret conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Even those officials not part of the original conspiracy are quickly swearing allegiance.†   (source)
  • There are layers of proven conspiracy and alleged conspiracy that will disturb you.†   (source)
  • The conspiracy is alive and well and coming from Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't no conspiracy, Hooch knew that.†   (source)
  • His sense of conspiracy aroused in me a particular ripple of response.†   (source)
  • Do you think that what you're facing is merely a conspiracy to seize your wealth?†   (source)
  • And who's at the core of this conspiracy that has to fail?†   (source)
  • There was obviously a conspiracy of some nature at work.†   (source)
  • It's easy to believe in vast conspiracies.†   (source)
  • Baldwin waved his hand as if to dismiss the whole idea of a conspiracy.†   (source)
  • 'It seems to have been a very efficient conspiracy,' said Frodo.†   (source)
  • The page was long and gave off some serious conspiracy-theory paranoia vibes.†   (source)
  • A kinky, very nasty sex crime, not some international conspiracy†   (source)
  • So I missed warning her, was new to conspiracy.†   (source)
  • The girls have spun a web of conspiracy around Mummie.†   (source)
  • In Baltimore, he tried to convince O'Laughlen to rejoin the conspiracy.†   (source)
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