This racketeering ring is aided and abetted by some corrupt police and licensing officials buttressed by some crooked bank employees. |
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In a whirl of publicity, abetted by her wily lawyer, Roxie becomes Chicago's latest celebrity. |
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The Liberals have studiously continued to ignore the idea, abetted unwittingly by Opposition parties obsessed with gazing at their own navels. |
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The legislation is limited to lawsuits against persons who ordered, abetted, or assisted in the torture. |
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Throughout, he's ably abetted by a crack team of session musicians, including ace jazzer Bill Frisell on guitar and Jim Keltner on drums. |
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Emily's success is aided and abetted by her mum, Deirdre, who crews for Emily at all the rides. |
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He was aided and abetted by a one-time car salesman whose verbal skills and shady book-keeping saw him become a kingmaker and bagman. |
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It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial. |
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In 1892 he was elected Labour MP for the West Ham constituency in London, abetted by the fact that the Liberal candidate had stood aside. |
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This is all aided and abetted by the amazing assertion that hard work of necessity brings rewards. |
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And history has examples of how universities, by becoming mere mouthpieces of government, have aided and abetted dictatorships. |
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I still think it was a plucky thing to do though, even if they were aided and abetted by the Bizzies. |
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Fear and discrimination by sponsors, abetted by commercial broadcasting's need for operating revenue from ad sales, could not be ignored. |
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The second wife, Ella, abetted by a married sister, tries to stand up to George. |
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It doesn't help that they're aided and abetted by a complicit media. |
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Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover. |
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The above track is marked by a compelling series of track-long drum rolls and fills and a frugal bassline, and is abetted by digressive but nifty keys and fulgent chimes. |
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A threat aided and abetted by a state agency that's supposed to be expert at locking up sensitive information. |
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Now they want to connive, aided and abetted by the separatist Bloc, to overturn the results of an election held only seven weeks ago. |
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Some of this attitude can be likened to urban myth, abetted on occasion by commentary from the financial industry. |
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More specifically, Gordon Brown, aided and abetted by his macho, posturing spin doctors, has now shown his true colours. |
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Zao was accused of having aided and abetted them and the French Embassy in Brazzaville refused to accord him a visa for many years to come. |
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Promoters of the north, abetted by a few government officials, were convinced the north held great mineral wealth. |
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They travel through Syria to the hands of Hizbullah undisturbed, in fact abetted. |
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I've seen widows forced to marry unwanted suitors who, aided and abetted by the law, usurped their deceased husband's assets, as well as their own lives and bodies. |
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Both accused Johnson of fostering a leniency that abetted crime. |
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Central banks that have acquiesced in, or abetted, high inflation are practicing a form of financial corruption that eventually leads to financial ruin. |
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This was abetted by several instances of abrupt and awkward editing. |
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The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. |
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Technology, abetted by social media, threatens to imprison everyone in a solipsistic bubble. |
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Yet the exhibition overall is beset by an archival feeling, which is abetted by the period posters and reliquary vitrines housing pamphlets and first editions. |
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Maybe lesser mortals would have been put off by the volley of abuse he directed at her but in the end she triumphed, aided and abetted by passers by and stallholders. |
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That story's great fame has had a distorting effect on the rest his work, abetted by every ignorant commentator – and there are plenty – who has identified it as typical. |
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Aided and abetted by wordsmith cronies Bergman and Fauque, he has signed a handful of modern French masterpieces, songs so musically sophisticated and rich it takes time to fully take them in. |
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There did exist and perhaps still exists an international terrorist conspiracy based there, which was aided and abetted by the government in Afghanistan. |
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I think it has emerged beyond a shadow of a doubt that European governments have aided and abetted the actions of US Intelligence on European territory. |
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Her interest aided and abetted me but I was born fashion-obsessed. |
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We are dealing here with a relatively small rump of Saddam supporters aided and abetted by foreign terrorists, as well as with broader problems in the so-called Sunni triangle. |
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The phrase significantly aided and abetted is common to American English language speakers. |
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In the meantime, however, the debilitated Mitanni kingdom underwent a series of upheavals abetted by the renascent Assyrian kingdom, which had long been a tributary of the Mitanni. |
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Unfortunately my colleagues of the People's Party aided and abetted by the Liberals in the Economic Affairs Committee found my approach unacceptable. |
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The so-called crisis in health care in this country has been essentially manufactured by the federal government and aided and abetted by some of the provinces. |
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In 1971, the United States abetted a genocide in what is today Bangladesh. |
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Alex Loudon supplied Trott with perfect support, abetted by a flurry of Sussex cack-handedness. |
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It appears to me that the Commission is attempting progressively to break down the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe into bite-sized chunks, aided and abetted, in this case, by our own government. |
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Among the most recent targets of global expansion have been Eastern Europe and Asia, where expansion has been abetted by national commitments to the EU and WTO respectively. |
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Post-truth has also been abetted by the evolution of the media. |
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Abetted by moody cinematography and crackerjack editing, it moves like a shot. |
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Abetted by scare stories on television and the Internet, people make bad judgments about risk that can lead to excessive wariness of new corporate products such as vaccines. |
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