Примеры crony

• As we have said before, this is not a straightforward privatisation, but a deal made behind closed doors—a cronies' deal made in smoke-filled rooms.

• They came up with the disgraceful formula of stuffing the committee with their own political and business cronies.

• Denationalisation is so urgent that he is tripping over himself to buy shares, and his cronies are doing the same.

• He does not protect whistleblowers—he protects his own cronies and himself.

• To replace an admittedly imperfect system with one that is worse—a system of cronies and appointed patronage—cannot be right.

• When asked to choose between high standards of government and the low politics of his cronies, he has unerringly chosen the latter.

• The entrepreneur who was running them had appointed his cronies as trustees of the pension fund, and ran off with the money.

• Much as one would like to think that this world is full of cronies, it is not.