How To Use Cronyism In A Sentence
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After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit.
Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration
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In reality, the danger to democracy and Scottish interests came from cronyism, reinforced by partisan voting.
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It looks like a body that can't get things done, an organization that is rife with cronyism and lobbyists' money.
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No one would issue such a direct order, but cloaked in silence is intent, and in a system of "clubbish" cronyism, accomplishment of inferred intent is richly rewarded.
Speaking the Unspeakable
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The consequence was that good old New York tradition: cronyism, corruption and graft.
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Throughout the grim tower blocks and porridge-grey council estates an implacable culture of cronyism, corruption and omertà rules.
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Sensitive to accusations of cronyism, he also wanted a non-political appointment.
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The thing about corruption or cronyism is that it's almost impossible to prove, unless its done very incompetently.
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He came from privilege, yet fought for labor and against cronyism and corruption.
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The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution.
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In point of fact, he was remarkably ineffectual at anything but promoting a sort of genteel cronyism.
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He may not have broken any laws but it is clear that what scanty guidelines exist to control patronage and cronyism were stretched at will to accommodate his ‘suggestions’.
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For one, they say, she is an outsider in an administration where cronyism has created problems.
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And, he said just before DePuyt said goodbye to the TV audience, "If you really want to see cronyism, look at the lottery contract" -- a reference to the well-politicked procurement that the council long refused to approve.
Fenty pledges to 'change some things' in TV debate
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Hutchison has laid out a detailed government reform proposal aimed at ending what she describes as cronyism in Austin.
The Gazette-Enterprise: News
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But his appointment, if confirmed, risks triggering a cronyism row.
The Sun
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The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution.
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Many small town mayor and city official practice cronyism.
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What is certain is that these golden parachutes were monuments to greed, cronyism and the absence of accountability.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, they have become part of a system that rewards cronyism and sycophantry.
More Bad News for the Media: Who's to Blame?
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Critics have always maintained the present system smacks of cronyism and cover-up.
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High unemployment, non-payment of state wages and pensions and official cronyism and corruption will all be election issues.
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An investigation by The Sunday Times in 2003 revealed that the honours system was corrupted by spin and cronyism.
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But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
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It has embraced the present system - possibly all too well, if whispers of corruption and cronyism have any basis.
Times, Sunday Times
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The documents they contain come from a committee he set up to hunt down waste, greed and cronyism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many small town mayor and city official practice cronyism.
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Charges of corruption, graft, and cronyism are common among government officials at all levels.
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The young have become powerful leaders against the corruption, nepotism and cronyism in their countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sensitive to accusations of cronyism, he also wanted a non-political appointment.
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The young have become powerful leaders against the corruption, nepotism and cronyism in their countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are the naked face of savage capitalism evolved to its ultimate and inevitable state, which is embodied by corporatism, monopolism, cronyism, imperialism, and fuck-everyone-but-the-rich-ism.
Shouting at the Devil:
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The vote was a sign of weariness with rampant cronyism in government and a rapidly declining economy.
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His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism.
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Everyone knows the IOC is as big a cesspool of corruption, bribery and cronyism as almost every other high-minded international organization, and the Vancouver bid presentation is as touchy-feely as one would expect:
Daimnation!: Vancouver 2010
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Corruption, cronyism and all the usual accoutrements came in tow.
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Our honours system is acutely vulnerable to ridicule and the charge of cronyism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The outcome is corruption and cronyism, which has implications for development.
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The appointment sparked a furious row over cronyism and the use of public cash.
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The young have become powerful leaders against the corruption, nepotism and cronyism in their countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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More competition between companies, more individual liability and less political cronyism may be better routes to keeping bankers and businesses honest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fewer agencies are more of a mess than DHS, a Frankenstein-like agglutination of 170,000 federal employees from different bureaucratic and law-enforcement cultures, transformed into a hive of incompetence and cronyism under Bush.
Brooklyn, Stand Up! | ATTACKERMAN
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This is a government for the insiders, for political appointments and cronyism.
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No matter what the issue, the entanglements of political cronyism were a frustration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Imagine nominating a sycophantic nobody just when your poll numbers have given the mainstream media a by-your-leave to turn on the heat for your cronyism and machine politics.
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Allegations of bias, cronyism, and petty politicking have often tainted the results.
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Criticism is rather more directed toward the robber baron philosophy, welfare for corporate friends, cronyism, suppression of policies (instituted from the depression on) that ameliorate conditions for poor, elderly, disabled, and deprived children, and the general tone of disservice to the public that characterizes this administration.
Sadie Hawkins day on cable « BuzzMachine
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The vote was a sign of weariness with rampant cronyism in government and a rapidly declining economy.
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There are also claims of cronyism emerging around the massive multi-billion honeypot which awaits whichever IT firm wins the deal to produce the technology.
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It's an invitation to cronyism and corruption or total ineffectuality.
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His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism.
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The Games have also been tainted with charges of cronyism and corruption.
The Sun
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The documents they contain come from a committee he set up to hunt down waste, greed and cronyism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now it's the code of connections, corruption, and cronyism that reigns supreme.
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He announced that reform will indeed happen and there will be an end to cronyism in the appointment of judges.
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Opponents of the nomination declared it to be the product of cronyism that revealed an insular, arrogant White House.
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He also took them to task for their authority board appointments and suggested they operated a system of cronyism.
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In the fight against cronyism, Malaysian economist Jomo has endured public attacks, lawsuits and death threats.
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If you continue to support the administration now, even after the cronyism, the lying, the flip-flopping, and the sheer and utter incompetency is so obvious to the rest of the world, then there’s little hope of you joining the reality-based community.
Think Progress » White House discussing
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What really made people sore was a system of political cronyism that awarded jobs and benefits to ruling party sympathizers.
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Referring to a Texas Monthly article that described him as having ears that are one size too big for his head, White said, "Maybe I'm not the most media-genic candidate, but right now I think people want folks who are confident, shoot straight, don't engage in cronyism and get things done.
Houston mayor mulls running for governor of Texas
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That's all his Government is - a sham Potemkin wrapper around a core of incompetent cronyism.
09/07/2005
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It's wedded to political cronyism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The committee succeeded in halting the elections to replace Karam following lawsuits by journalists who were booted out of the union and had charged the LJU council with nepotism, cronyism and illegalities.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Tug of War Over Lebanese Journalists Union Leadership
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Many small town mayor and city official practice cronyism.
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Others at the bar take a dim view of Greek cronyism and corruption.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an invitation to cronyism and corruption or total ineffectuality.
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These include claims of corruption and cronyism.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a government for the insiders, for political appointments and cronyism.
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Corruption and cronyism have increased in the spheres of politics and business in an almost obscene fashion.
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Author David K. Wyatt shows no fear and honestly describes the self indulgences, cronyism and corruption that have been a blot on this nation's politics for many, many decades.
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It was also a good election for cronyism with a number of former special advisers being parachuted in.
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Movement organizers said they have banded together to express frustration over alleged cronyism and a lack of ‘decency’ in Estrada's government.
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No one would issue such a direct order, but cloaked in silence is intent, and in a system of “clubbish” cronyism, accomplishment of inferred intent is richly rewarded.
Speaking the Unspeakable
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Thus, the cronyism, nepotism, inefficiency and fraud inherent in democracy is largely meliorated by law and political mechanisms in America and Europe, but in Asia those remedies are still developing.
Asia's 'Democratic Crisis'
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That her appointment is an act of cronyism is without a doubt, but if that's the price of admission to another Souter or moderate justice, I'm willing to pay it.
10/03/2005
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But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
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Democrats or Republicans who claim they are interested in putting an end to corruption, cronyism, who-you-know, who-sent-you, high taxes and the political mafia tactics that keep iron-fisted control over taxpayers, but don't have the courage to step up the king, are just ignoring or looking the other way at one of the most serious sources of the mess.
Archive 2009-06-01
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No matter what the issue, the entanglements of political cronyism were a frustration.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the past week, accusations of cronyism and sexual politics have turned the city hall press gallery upside down.
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The documents they contain come from a committee he set up to hunt down waste, greed and cronyism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole culture of greed, arrogance, cronyism and corruption was marvellously encapsulated in that instructive episode.
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More competition between companies, more individual liability and less political cronyism may be better routes to keeping bankers and businesses honest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because they do not want to acknowledge the squalor and the cronyism inherent in the devolution settlement, on which all their well-paid sinecures depend, is the answer.
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The corporate cronyism of the last three decades has left the middle class, working class and poor with few resources, but the wealthiest have become gluttonously rich.
Kevin Zeese: The President Misses an Opportunity to Get the Country on the Right Course
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The consequence was that good old New York tradition: cronyism, corruption and graft.
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Being from Chicago I can tell you that I have seen quite a bit of political corruption and cronyism.
