cabal

A cabal can do it, selling their influence to the highest bidder.

It has now leant its name to a shadowy cabal known within the German meat-processing industry as the Atlantic group.

The arms dealer sells it to a mysterious neo-Nazi cabal, which then detonates it in Baltimore.

LIBOR is the very definition of a rate set by a cabal, ripe for collusion.

Silicon Valley has its own weaknesses: the cabal of successful investors is small and insular.

Meanwhile the cabal against the ruined Ripperda raged with redoubled fury in the Spanish cabinet.

But here the artist stranded, the victim of a cabal, despite the protection of Camille Maupin.

Mr. Palfrey terms this attempt a "Presbyterian cabal," and calls its leaders "conspirators."

But as true Merit,236 is always the most envied, a Cabal was soon formed against his Integrity.

She had no political ability, no inclination for political affairs, but she was at once the tool and guiding genius of the Cabal.