conspire

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Conspire to set the price of the London interbank borrowing rate, or Libor, to the detriment of tens of millions of corporate and individual borrowers the world over?

From New York Times • May 28, 2015

Conspire to build a 23,000-tonne doughnut-shaped vessel called a tokamak, that is wrapped with 80,000km of superconducting wire, all to contain the plasma magnetically and, for the first time, produce fusion energy continuously.

From Economist • Sep. 18, 2014

Happy, thrice happy, you! 'tis me alone Whom heaven and earth and ocean with one hate Conspire on, and throughout each path pursue.

From Gebir by Landor, Walter Savage

This prologue finds pat applications In men of all this world's vocations; For fashion, prejudice, and party strife, Conspire to crowd poor justice out of life.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

For all the elements, and all the powers Celestial, nay, terrestrial, and infernal, Conspire the wreck of out-cast Œdipus!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir