connivance

[US]/kə'naɪv(ə)ns/
[UK]/kəˈnaɪvəns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. still, meningsløshet; vilje til å overse eller tillate noe
Word Forms

Example Sentences

done with the connivance of (done in connivance with)

utført med medvirkning (utført i medvirkning med)

this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials.

dette brytet mot loven hadde skjedd med medvitenhet fra myndighetspersoner.

He tried to bribe the police into connivance.

Han prøvde å øke politiet til medvirkning.

The criminals could not have escaped without your connivance.

De kriminelle kunne ikke ha unnviket det uten din medvitenhet.

to act in connivance with someone

å handle i medvitenhet med noen

to turn a blind eye to connivance

å se bort fra medvitenhet

Real-world Examples

With police connivance, they pressured her to leave.

Med politis medvirkning presset de henne til å forlate stedet.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Anyway, many migrants who come ashore in Italy disappear north before being identified—with the connivance of the Italian authorities.

Likevel forsvinner mange migranter som lander i Italia nordover før de blir identifisert – med medvirkning fra de italienske myndighetene.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

This man penetrated to your very door by their connivance.

Denne mannen kom helt opp til døren din med deres medvirkning.

Source: Selected Works of O. Henry

If she was innocent of connivance in the crime, it was concocted by her, and by her only as she stated.

Hvis hun var uskyldig i forhold til medvirkning i kriminaliteten, så var det henne som skapte det, og bare henne som hun sa.

Source: Murder at the golf course

It would be useful, but almost impossible, to mark all the cards, and it would mean the connivance at least of the croupier.

Det ville være nyttig, men nesten umulig, å merke alle kortene, og det ville bety medvirkning fra minst sjansen.

Source: Casino Royale of the 007 series

" Then you consider that Madame Beroldy was wrongly acquitted? That in actual fact she was guilty of connivance in her husband's murder" ?

"Da vurderer du at Madame Beroldy ble feilaktig frikjent? At hun i virkeligheten var skyldig i medvirkning til sin mands drap"?

Source: Murder at the golf course

Paul was deposed and murdered with the likely connivance of his son Alexander the First, who was torn all his life between his grandmother's liberalism and his father's conservatism.

Paul ble avsatt og dratt med sannsynlig medvirkning fra sønnen hans Alexander den Første, som hele sitt liv hadde vært splittet mellom bestemors liberale og fars konservative holdninger.

Source: The rise and fall of superpowers.

One day there was disclosed an alarming breech of this rule, surely a case of Teutonic connivance—during the night four men had grown hair upon their faces.

En dag ble det avslørt en alarmerende brytning av denne regelen, sikkert et tilfelle av tysk medvirkning – under natten hadde fire menn vokst hår på ansiktene sine.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

" ... dead? Why, to plant another rose on Tommen's council. Are you blind or bought? Rosby stood in her way, so she put him in his grave. With your connivance" .

"... død? Hvorfor, for å plassere en annen rose på Tommens råd. Er du blind eller kjøpt? Rosby stod i veien hennes, så hun satte ham i graven. Med din medvirkning".

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows (Bilingual Edition)

The British ministry, with indifference if not connivance, permitted rams and ships to be built in British docks and allowed them to escape to play havoc under the Confederate flag with American commerce.

Det britiske ministeriet, med uvillighet hvis ikke medvirkning, tillot at rams og skip ble bygget i britiske dokker og la dem slippe unna for å forstyrre amerikansk handel under den konfederate flagget.

Source: American history

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