Word: complicit
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...Proliferation Treaty it signed in 1968. For several years now, European powers like France, Britain, and Germany have tried to negotiate with this regime, while on this side of the Atlantic, the United States—its hands tied in Iraq—has stood by, a complicit “bad cop.” The attempts at dialogue have proved futile, and because of this, the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) last week voted to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council. Tehran’s ambiguity and unending flip-flops on Russia’s proposal...
...High-ranking federal police officials, as well as some presidential candidates, have charged privately that certain member countries of the UN Mission have been complicit in the kidnapping network, either by taking payments from cash-flush gangs to look the other way or supplying them with weapons. UN Mission spokesman David Wimhurst vehemently denies the accusations: "If the government is serious, it should come forward and offer proof. Otherwise, it's just another nasty rumor attacking MINUSTAH...
Allegations that Coca-Cola has been complicit in human rights and environmental abuses in Colombia and India, respectively, prompted the decision, which will soon leave students without Coca-Cola in campus vending machines and cafeterias. An investigation by an arm of the university had earlier determined that the soft drink company may have violated various standards that Michigan expects vendors to uphold...
...atomic weapon during World War II. But after the war his opposition to the push for an even bigger weapon, the hydrogen bomb, helped set in motion the events that led to his being stripped of his government security clearance. The authors show the ways in which Oppenheimer was complicit in his own destruction, but never lose sight of the ugliness of the process...
...them. "I cannot imagine how something like this should happen without (the government) knowing," thundered Gregor Gysi, head of Germany's Left Party, this week in the Bundestag. "International law has to be used to limit the power of the strongest." The idea that European governments might have been complicit in holding detainees in secret challenges Europeans' sense that they hold the moral high ground over the U.S. on issues of human rights...