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conspiracy

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Conspiracy is a 2000 Hong Kong sex film directed by Shu-Pui Hou and produced by Chun Fai Lau, starring Bessie Chan, Simon Lui , Michael Tse , Sophie Ngan, Peter Lai, and Gai-keung Si. The film premiered in Hong Kong on 6 July 2000.

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n. 1 The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. 2 (context legal English) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a conspiracy theory (= a theory that an event was the result of secret plan made by two or more people ) ▪ A variety of conspiracy theories question the official account of President Kennedy’s assassination. conspiracy ...

Usage examples of conspiracy.

The nations which composed the formidable conspiracy against Rome were eight in number--the Marsians, Pelignians, Marrucinians, Vestinians, Picentines, Samnites, Apulians, and Lucanians.

Earlier in the evening Hitler had dispatched Scheubner-Richter to Ludwigshoehe to fetch the renowned General, who knew nothing of the Nazi conspiracy, to the beerhouse at once.

If Boardman could have his way he would automatically charge all briefs with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice simply for belonging to the profession they did.

What Bravais quickly discovers is a conspiracy by aliens and their human confederates to harvest brains as onboard guidance units for weapons in an interstellar war.

That paper exhibited by Dacre would furnish the needed proof of conspiracy, and then good-by, Lord Brompton, to your cherished schemes for fortune.

English Catholic world would be blasted apart by that conspiracy known to history as the Gunpowder Plot, and many Catholics would die bloodily at the hands of the state.

In fact, the more Cicero thought about Caesar, the more convinced he became that Caesar had been a part of the Catilinarian conspiracy, if only because victory for Catilina meant that his burden of debt would be removed.

AEdileship the first Catilinarian conspiracy occurred, and from this time his history forms a portion of that of the times.

Nikolai Gumilev was arrested by the Petrograd Cheka, jailed for a few days, and then shot without trial on charges, which were almost certainly false, of belonging to a monarchist conspiracy.

Afterward, it develops that he and Colo have for years been doing a fraudulent juggling act with corporate funds, channeling vast sums into the as yet undisclosed conspiracy.

Saddam Husayn in the mid-1970s, Iraqi history was a chronicle of conspiracies, coups, countercoups, and fierce Kurdish uprisings.

They had access to millions of pieces of information under the Personal Privacy Act, and they assembled the entire puzzle by hammering those pieces in to place until they had some Daliesque approximation of the conspiracy they needed to continue to justify their own existence.

While Bonaparte was invading Lombardy and attacking the great Austrian fortress of Mantua, the Directoire had to deal with conspiracy in Paris.

Nobody else wanted to take the beat unless it was to uncover some vast new conspiracy to turn us all into the Pillsbury Doughboy or something like that.

Chemical substances and commodities, like the conspiracies, and like the dustheaps in Dickens, embody the moral defects of the society that produces them.