(13) In his eyes, he did not fail he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules. (12) But, once Napoleon has returned home, he discovers that fate has conspired against him. (11) I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week. (10) Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives. (9) Occasionally events conspire to imbue these great-leader impersonators with great symbolic power. (8) Those who are members of the Church and yet conspire against her commit a serious and brutal crime. (7) This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down. (6) The circumstances conspire to make a sexual relation or a future together impossible. (5) Currently, conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence that requires that two or more individuals conspire to commit a fraud against another. (4) But racing, in particular, has often suffered from people who deliberately conspire to fix results, and those cheats now know that their days are numbered. (3) As the scenery switches from Argentina to Chile to Colombia, events conspire to change our hero, as we know they will. (2) Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality. (The Great Gatsby, by F.(1) Fate and circumstances often conspire to change the direction of our lives for better or worse. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale-and yet they weren't unhappy either. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) The reader may remember what I related, when my crew conspired against me, and confined me to my cabin how I continued there several weeks without knowing what course we took and when I was put ashore in the long-boat, how the sailors told me, with oaths, whether true or false, that they knew not in what part of the world we were. (Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation) Southeast and precipitation anomalies caused by atmospheric warming farther north in the Mississippi basin are conspiring to juice up the future flood statistics in equal proportion. He said the twin effects of plant physiology in the U.S. (Persecutory Type Delusional Disorder, NCI Thesaurus) (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Ī subtype of delusional disorder characterized by the central delusional theme that the individual is being malevolently treated (for example, maligned, harassed, conspired against, poisoned or drugged) by another person or group. Under the latter heading is included, no doubt, not only those who may have taken him away, but also those who conspire to keep him in his present position? (Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)ĭelaford,-that place in which so much conspired to give her an interest which she wished to be acquainted with, and yet desired to avoid. The higher moisture content of warmer air and storms' increasing wind speeds conspire to produce wetter storms. Interact (act together or towards others or with others)Ĭonspiracy (a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act) The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conspire"):Ĭonspiracy (a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot))Ĭonspirative (relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators)Īct in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose Plot (plan secretly, usually something illegal) Hypernyms (to "conspire" is one way to.): They conspired to overthrow the government Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubtingĬabal complot conjure conspire machinate
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