The appointment sparked a furious row over cronyism and the use of public cash. |
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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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Sensitive to accusations of cronyism, he also wanted a non-political appointment. |
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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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This is a government for the insiders, for political appointments and cronyism. |
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The whole culture of greed, arrogance, cronyism and corruption was marvellously encapsulated in that instructive episode. |
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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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He came from privilege, yet fought for labor and against cronyism and corruption. |
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The outcome is corruption and cronyism, which has implications for development. |
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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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An investigation by The Sunday Times in 2003 revealed that the honours system was corrupted by spin and cronyism. |
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Allegations of bias, cronyism, and petty politicking have often tainted the results. |
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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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Charges of corruption, graft, and cronyism are common among government officials at all levels. |
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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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To turn the state over to the incestuous nepotism and cronyism of Dad and Dave shire councils would be an abject failure. |
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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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In reality, the danger to democracy and Scottish interests came from cronyism, reinforced by partisan voting. |
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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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What really made people sore was a system of political cronyism that awarded jobs and benefits to ruling party sympathizers. |
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Critics have always maintained the present system smacks of cronyism and cover-up. |
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His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell 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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Its government desperately needs such a system of accountability to stem the arbitrariness, corruption, 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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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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The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution. |
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Being from Chicago I can tell you that I have seen quite a bit of political corruption and cronyism. |
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The subjective approach opens the door to favoritism, cronyism, and brownnosing. |
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Corruption, cronyism and all the usual accoutrements came in tow. |
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But the effect of cronyism — both individual and institutional — is homogenizing. |
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Corruption is widespread, characterized by cronyism, bribery and a variety of shakedown enterprises managed by government officials. |
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Mr. Speaker, only the government would expect a crony to stamp out cronyism. |
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There is, for instance, all the cronyism between politicians' offices and the big lobbying firms. |
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Instead of strengthening ethics in government and promoting transparency, they have strengthened the culture of secrecy and cronyism. |
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She plans to use the fellowship to investigate what she describes as intermediaries, double-dipping and cronyism in the federal public service. |
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Unregulated lobbying and political cronyism must end: We need tougher laws requiring disclosure of fees and expenditures of lobbyists. |
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That is the very strong theme of cronyism that they share of having their friends and trading them back and forth and the corporate lobbyists. |
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This situation, which has started to change in recent years, is due to years of cronyism and corruption in the past. |
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This appointment already smacks of cronyism because Mr. Pierre worked in the Conservative Party executive in the Saint-Jean riding. |
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The Prime Minister said that he would put an end to cronyism and ensure that it was not who one knew in the PMO who got the jobs. |
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For centuries influence and power has bred nepotism and cronyism in the machinery of state. |
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Hence, we must for ever be vigilant not to succumb to the luring sirens of cronyism. |
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Having these processes in place ensures fairness for all members, and protects against favouritism and cronyism. |
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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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Issa has also been accused of cronyism and hypocrisy as a member of the House. |
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The rigged system of redistricting is quietly reaching new lows of collusion and cronyism in states across the country. |
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Obama's plan to transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast reeks of cronyism. |
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But especially in the last decade, Daley, for all his cronyism and budgetary denial, put a shine on a great but gray town. |
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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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This is a politics of one-party dominance, old boy networks and cronyism. |
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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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Under their dashing but unproven young leader, Justin Trudeau, the Liberals have attempted a youth-centred revival promising a break from the complacency and cronyism of the party's recent past. |
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From bungling in Washington to cronyism in Kabul, the Karzai regime has been hobbled by corruption that has undermined its standing in the provinces. |
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Both political parties are talking about cronyism and insider dealing. |
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Too many employers ignore the importance of attitudes, corporate culture, stereotyping, cronyism, and other discriminatory barriers that may exist in the workforce but are difficult to deal with. |
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This remoteness, which is often the result of political cronyism, an increasingly technocratic State, and a deficit of democracy, has been aggravated by structural adjustment policies and their consequences. |
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But cronyism and crookedness pervade the lower and middle levels of the movement, and even the highest dignitaries show a tendency to confuse the party's interests with those of the state. |
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This growth was, however, partly based on weak banking and financial systems which were also, together with cronyism and corruption, root causes of the financial crisis throughout the region. |
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Indeed, Dr Mahathir has virtually guaranteed that cronyism will continue by retaining his policy of promoting ethnic Malay entrepreneurs. In Indonesia, politics has stymied attempts to reform big business. |
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An unsullied, independent justice system fosters a political climate in which corruption and cronyism become less frequent because they are riskier for everyone involved. |
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Mr. Speaker, we were promised transparency and we got cronyism. |
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Conservative cronyism is worse than ever, and still they attack workers. |
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The Liberals opposed that, not because they thought there was a loophole with respect to parliamentary secretaries, but because they thought the old revolving door of lobbying and cronyism that existed before was fine. |
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In the long run, a democratic process for selecting and appointing leaders will go a long way to defeat cronyism, politics of patronage and careerism. |
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The nexus of dynastic politics, cronyism, militarism and evangelicism poses a serious threat to the fortunes of the United States. |
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Anwar blamed cronyism, nepotism and corruption. |
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All the time we thought that her ministerial appointment was a perk based on cronyism and nepotism when in fact it appears that she was actually set up by the Prime Minister. |
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While cronyism persists, an international coalition is emerging around the need to cut off the avenues available to corrupt elites for diverting their ill-gotten gains into foreign bank accounts. |
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Does the minister realize that she is in fact saying she had no concern about the real problems that worried the public, namely fraud, patronage, influence peddling and cronyism? |
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In this context, the Council considered reform and re-capitalisation of the financial system, containment of external debt, and tackling the problems of cronyism and corruption as areas of particular importance. |
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This investigation raises serious questions about objectivity, political cronyism, stonewalling, secrecy and a sign of things to come...a cover-up. |
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Corporate governance is a focal point in creating safeguards against corruption and mismanagement, limiting insider dealing and cronyism while promoting the values of a market economy in a democratic society. |
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However, further work done in 2015 by Sutirtha Bagchia and Jan Svejnar suggests that it is only inequality caused by corruption and cronyism that harms growth. |
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This led to accusations of cronyism from the defeated Conservative Party. |
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And it also is the time for it to understand that in administration, favouritism could be as lethal and as annihilative, if not more, as are nepotism and cronyism. |
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But in this land of sleaze and cronyism, the gombeen man is king. |
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