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.

• I fully take the point that we do not want the appointment of cronies.

• What about the other cronies who have managed to get on to the list of candidates for my party?

• I suppose that cronies will be appointed for that purpose, or else someone in the system will do it.

• They were also a self-perpetuating oligarchy with well-used procedures of co-option from among golf club cronies.

• However, it turned out that the chairman of the consultants—of the medical panel—had done his own thing and consulted one or two cronies.

• On the other hand, we do not publish these things in the newspapers so that he and his cronies know in advance that he is likely to be arrested.

• He and a few of his more easily led cronies swagger around the estate and threaten those vulnerable enough not to be in a position to fight back.