unwilling accomplice

"It's as if I was the unwilling accomplice to the kidnapping of my own child."

Or perhaps she had been an unwilling accomplice, forced to play her part under duress.

The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers.

The moderately dishonest hotel manager, and Cesar's unwilling accomplice.

But then he realized that he was an unwilling accomplice to Cheryl's vanishing-clothes trick.

Efnis hung back, an unwilling accomplice.

Mrs Willoughby is to entertain his guests, and Violet is her unwilling accomplice.

With his unwilling accomplice as an axis, Jules whirled around once, then planted his feet and swung the man around instead.

I was beginning to feel like an unwilling accomplice, but I did as I was told and removed the tape.

MacLeod decides it's up to him to reunite the once happy couple, and he enlists a very unwilling accomplice in his cunning plan.

Mr. Hyde said financing abortions through Medicaid, the health program for the poor, would offend taxpayers by making them unwilling accomplices in abortion.

Hackers are waging war on consumer Web sites, stealing credit card numbers, planting destructive software on the computers of unwilling accomplices.

In Simpson's hypothetical scenario, he has an unwilling accomplice named "Charlie" who tells him to stop the murders, and who Simpson ignores.

The humiliation and shame of being forced to become an unwilling accomplice to StateSec's brutality had changed Foraker's universe forever.

During the 1993 investigation, Homolka stated to investigators that Bernardo had abused her, and that she had been an unwilling accomplice to the murders.

The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.

He uses brute violence to bully, intimidate, and injure other people like Nancy, his unwilling accomplice Oliver, and even clever but cowardly Fagin.

He also forces Rui as his unwilling accomplice, making her seem to be the villain behind his crimes while appearing innocent as he turns many women into diamonds.

The Ringmaster later enlisted Howard the Duck as an unwilling accomplice, but was defeated by Howard and Iris Raritan.

That is what Mr. Berry and his court-appointed lawyer maintain: that he was an unwilling accomplice to the June 7 murder of James Byrd Jr., 49.

The Circus reaches its lowest point when it tries to enlist Howard the Duck as an unwilling accomplice, but he defeats them with help from Iris Raritan.

In the film, Hasty is a money launderer portrayed as an unwilling accomplice in the other crimes; in the novel, he is a hard-nosed extremist who orchestrates the murder.

In her attempt to get away, she falls in with two mysterious men named Grunthor and Achmed and soon finds herself the unwilling accomplice in their own escape.

He had obviously realised too late his terrible predicament and peril, an unwilling accomplice in a plot against the king's life arranged by his masters in which he was to be the scapegoat.

He seeks help from Joey, who has more to lose than Kyle does if the videotape is made public, and with his old friend as a somewhat unwilling accomplice, plots to outwit his blackmailer.