complicity

Converse of object

• involve: The attempt to try to homogenize states must involve complicity in ethnic cleansing.
• acknowledge: A few years ago the President of the Republic acknowledged the complicity of the French state in the Holocaust.
• show: Documents cited by the EWG authors showing the complicity of major asbestos defendants and their insurers in the American asbestos epidemic are disturbing.

Adjective modifier

• silent: The real threat is what others allow them to do through their own silent complicity.
• British: The election may now be over, but the issue of British complicity in torture is not going to go away.
• direct: Even his final apparent acknowledgment of a form of direct complicity he challenged later himself.
• own: The real threat is what others allow them to do through their own silent complicity.
• Western: First perceived Western complicity in the oppression of Palestine.
• certain: The extent to which the viewer is drawn into a certain voyeuristic complicity remains the film's main strength.

Noun used with modifier

• government: Government complicity The Government have played a direct part in all this.
• medium: The Missing Times: news media complicity in the UFO cover-up.

Possessives

government: There was no doubt in the demonstrators mind of the US government's complicity in Israel's attacks.

Preposition: in

• genocide: Religious students, for example, may find it hard to accept the fact the churches apparent complicity in genocide.
• cleansing: The attempt to try to homogenize states must involve complicity in ethnic cleansing.
• murder: Wagner was found guilty on the charge of complicity in these murders.
• crime: David is convinced of Michael's complicity in the crime.
• abuse: Her silence thus far suggests her complicity in grotesque human rights abuses.
• assassination: Coca-Cola stands accused of complicity in the assassination of 8 Sinaltrainal trade union leaders in Colombia since 1990.

Preposition: of

• government: A Palestinian speaker spoke of the hundreds of Palestinians slaughtered and the complicity of Western governments.
• medium: What its makers are doing in essence is posing a serious question about the complicity of the media in the act of violence itself.