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Abetting in sentence

21 examples of Abetting in a sentence

Buying people out of slavery is like paying a burglar to get your television back; it's abetting a crime.
He and his abetting brother are imprisoned up until the brother breaks out and arranges to meet his girlfriend out in the woods.
Aiding and abetting “prenatal murder” will be punished just like the “murder” itself.
J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank have paid substantial sums to settle charges ranging from bribery to illegal foreclosures to abetting tax evasion.
Thus, at the UN General Assembly, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem recently accused the US-led coalition in Syria of abetting terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State.
An end to the Syrian war requires an honest accounting by the US of its ongoing, often secretive role in the Syrian conflict since 2011, including who is funding, arming, training, and abetting the various sides.
Investors have used ethical grounds in the past – excluding, say, tobacco companies or corporations abetting apartheid in South Africa – and have been successful in generating pressure on the underlying stocks.
And Americans must confront the fact that their president, Donald Trump, has been aiding and abetting today’s crop of budding despots.
Yet, when push comes to shove, country after country is being dragged into abetting a potentially harmful outcome for the global economy as a whole.
Instead, local printing of money is essentially aiding and abetting the exodus.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence for aiding and abetting crimes committed during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1996 to 2002.
The first concerns the extent to which Pakistan will interfere in Afghan affairs, such as by aiding and abetting the Afghan Taliban and its main allies, including the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s militia.
(In this case, justice was later served; in 2012, the Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Taylor of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone, making him the first former head of state to be convicted for such crimes by an international tribunal since Nuremberg.)
And India sweetened the generals’ tea by providing military assistance and intelligence support to their own never-ending counter-insurgencies.India’s journey was complete: from standing up for democracy, India had graduated to aiding and abetting the military regime in Rangoon (now Yangon).
You, the organizer, are harming them – that is, their best and most rational selves – by feeding them distortions; at the very least, you are aiding and abetting their self-harm (for they, like lottery participants, are making a free choice).
Abetting this extremism of the center is the international economic system.
And within the Communist Party of China (CPC), anyone who dared to criticize Xi would be accused of abetting foreign aggressors, and thus effectively silenced.
In doing so, they are abetting Trump’s effort to dismantle a rules-based system that provided predictability to investors and thus enabled many developing countries to prosper.
And in some cases – namely Pakistan – the state itself is abetting violent extremists.
Very fortunately, however, attached to Mrs. Pott's person was a bodyguard of one, a young lady whose ostensible employment was to preside over her toilet, but who rendered herself useful in a variety of ways, and in none more so than in the particular department of constantly aiding and abetting her mistress in every wish and inclination opposed to the desires of the unhappy Pott.
"I guess we are aiding and abetting a felony, Watson?