abetted

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• In this most recent escalation of a four-year putsch — abetted by some of the same representatives and senators whose chambers were attacked by the mob — we see the last few threads of Trumpism that were never explicit now made manifest.

• At stake for the companies is whether the original plaintiffs have a case against them at all, for allegedly aiding and abetting human rights abuses.

• Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover.

• Because it is a political rhetoric of anti-Western resistance —ironically, abetted by Westerners themselves.

• In 1971, the United States abetted a genocide in what is today Bangladesh.

• In its confusion it has aided and abetted the rising power of the Muslim Brotherhood.

• Forget about the Second Amendment—the gun lobby, abetted by timorous Republicans, is trying to privatize law and order.

• That he would be abetted by Black Jack was almost certain, but fear had fled the happy heart of Freckles.

• Ancient, and, unhappily, recent subjects of jealousy lead him to suspect us of having abetted a crime which our bosom abhors.

• Thus abetted and equipped he came, after a taxi ride and a walk, into his grandmother's street.

• By this time the ladies realized what the two men were after, and abetted the plan with all of their persuasions.