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- noun Plural form of
abettor .
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Examples
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In truth, Lord Dunmore and his abettors were the real
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Ruchika: PIL for life term, action against 'abettors'
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So while the Vietnam War raged on, the government busied itself by criminalizing married couples and their "abettors" for dealing in condoms, and some people felt, as MU law professor Sandy Davidson puts it, that the government needed to pack up and get out of the bedroom.
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Illegals and their American abettors truly ought to be grateful that the government turns a blind eye to their undermining of the American polity.
Trading or Sharing?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For years, Congress and the courts have systematically eroded the ability of defrauded investors to bring civil cases to recover their losses and expose corporate wrongdoing, heightening pleading requirements, shielding corporate disclosure and immunizing aiders and abettors of fraud.
Daniel Squadron: Beyond the Occupation Daniel Squadron 2011
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– The American Spectator escalates the number of potential terrorist “abettors” in the Department of Justice from 9 to “as many as 13 to 16.”
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If the DoJ lawyers are terrorist abettors for doing their damn job (which they did without question under Bush) then the Cheney Klan are terrorist instigators.
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But until the church does what any other legal institution harboring criminals and their abettors would do, such speeches amount to empty gestures of piety.
Clay Farris Naff: The Vatican's Deeds Don't Yet Match the Pope's Words 2010
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And Collins says what shocks him is not only that Illinois 'elected officials keep getting indicted, but that there's a steady stream of aiders and abettors around them willing to go along with corrupt schemes.
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And Collins says what shocks him is not only that Illinois 'elected officials keep getting indicted, but that there's a steady stream of aiders and abettors around them willing to go along with corrupt schemes.
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