active complicity

Accusations were also made against the police for active complicity in crime, but proof was difficult to come by.

Because of their active complicity, we ratepayers and taxpayers have a $7 billion debt.

Unless one was prepared to sacrifice a normal life, communism forced the citizen into active complicity with the system.

Two sergeants were taken in as well, suggesting that active complicity in corruption runs higher than the cop on the beat.

The story as it unfolds in this way, teased out of obscurity, is all the weirder for demanding the reader's active complicity.

Mr. Zedillo has failed to challenge federal and state politicians whose failure to halt drug trafficking in their areas of jurisdiction suggests either active complicity or incompetence.

Some writers imagine that the F.B.I., in active complicity with some elements of the Nation of Islam, directly encouraged or condoned the assassination.

One level of explanation for this active complicity in genocide was that Kissinger and Nixon regarded Yahya Khan as their indispensable back channel to Peking.

The active complicity of Bristol City Council in the Tory-Lib-Dem cuts, begun before the abonimable coalition came to power, demonstrates an intellectual and moral bankruptcy.

There is no surprise that over the last two years or so, the inflation genie has got out of control with the active complicity of the MPC/BOE.

In future, they want to further tighten the straitjacket on countries such as Portugal, making them the target of demeaning pressure, blackmail and threats relating to financial capital, with the active complicity of the EU.

It commends individual priests and nuns for their courage, but adds, "Even more than its silence, the churches must answer for the active complicity of some of its priests, pastors and nuns in the genocide."

Most historians of the period reject most claims of active complicity or active resistance, painting a picture of a Catholic leadership who chose neutrality or mild resistance over an explicit ideological struggle with fascism.

I am thinking of products such as handbags, ballpoint pens, cigarette lighters and spectacles, the counterfeiting of which naturally requires the active complicity of the purchaser, who knows what he is buying and pretty rarely allows himself to be deceived.

"If there is active complicity by the average citizen in the nuclear peril, it may lie in this: We are ready to pay for our comfort and safety by accepting the threat of our annihilation, and of the possible annihilation of mankind.

The title of the report says much about what the Commission is cooking up, with the active complicity of the political ‘elites’. ‘Report on Turkey’s progress towards accession’ – you only have to read the title to be in no doubt that the Community bodies are already planning Turkey’s accession.

Tell me: in a world where it is increasingly visible that coming generations are going to suffer massive die-offs from a variety of climate-related catastrophes that we are stupidly (and selfishly) conjuring today with our combination of passivity and active complicity (shall we go for a drive?)