1.   There are no political conspiracies.

2.   And instead of the usual banter about family or movies, the chatter between the chairs centers on vote counts and political conspiracies.

3.   Any political conspiracy they could concoct by connecting the dots of my nationality, my recent travels and my employer seemed to fail.

4.   But in a defiant statement read by Clive Nicholls, his chief lawyer, he protested his innocence and said he was the victim of a political conspiracy.

5.   But in a fiery statement in court, he repeated his assertion that he was the target of a political conspiracy engineered by Mahathir, his mentor turned rival.

6.   But in the end, jurors were unswayed by suggestions of an international political conspiracy.

7.   In December, he prohibited the news media from publishing transcripts of audiotapes that the defense asserts show there was a political conspiracy to remove Anwar from office.

8.   It took seven months of increasingly dire revelations before the Senate began a probe of the political conspiracy behind the burglary.

9.   Johnny Depp plays an innocent everyman who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a deadly political conspiracy.

10.   Most can distinguish between political conspiracies and criminal wrongdoing.