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

Ah, if I only could some way Conspire "To grasp the sorry Scheme of Things entire"; How soon I'd shatter it to bits—and then Remould it nearer to my Heart's desire.

From The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband by Little, Mary Wallace Bundy

After their willful wandering that day Each is so tired it does not wake at all, Whilst over them the boughs that sigh and sway Conspire to make perpetual evenfall.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

What have I done, 52 What have I been, that thus the favouring gods And the consentient strength of hostile States Conspire to make me happy?

From Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts by Morris, Lewis, Sir