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  • adjective of or relating to cronyism

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Examples

  • So we need a pro-growth economic plan in this country that's going to have to have a lot of components, one of which is having a flatter, simpler, fairer, more pro-growth, less cronyistic, more transparent tax code.

    Time for Tim? 2011

  • But as a globalized and wired world moved past him, Mubarak missed the obvious fact: What people wanted was a voice, something they felt they had been denied by the country's often-violent security force, its insipid state-run news media and a cronyistic culture that rewarded loyalty to the Mubarak regime while leaving many others in a daily scramble for bread.

    After 3-decade rule, Mubarak will be remembered for how it ended Caryle Murphy 2011

  • Call it the Shoot the Wounded Phase: Players at the top are starting to accuse each other of being craven, cronyistic bad actors.

    Jane Chafin: Is the Art World's One Percent Unraveling? A Fantastic Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Jane Chafin 2011

  • What else could have been expected from a cronyistic and secretive patriarchy whose leadership considers itself unaccountable to common people?

    Most think Catholic Church poorly dealt with child abuse scandal 2010

  • But as a globalized and wired world moved past him, Mubarak missed the obvious fact: What people wanted was a voice, something they felt they had been denied by the country's often-violent security force, its insipid state-run news media and a cronyistic culture that rewarded loyalty to the Mubarak regime while leaving many others in a daily scramble for bread.

    After 3-decade rule, Mubarak will be remembered for how it ended Caryle Murphy 2011

  • Call it the Shoot the Wounded Phase: Players at the top are starting to accuse each other of being craven, cronyistic bad actors.

    Jane Chafin: Is the Art World's One Percent Unraveling? A Fantastic Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Jane Chafin 2011

  • But as a globalized and wired world moved past him, Mubarak missed the obvious fact: What people wanted was a voice, something they felt they had been denied by the country's often-violent security force, its insipid state-run news media and a cronyistic culture that rewarded loyalty to the Mubarak regime while leaving many others in a daily scramble for bread.

    After 3-decade rule, Mubarak will be remembered for how it ended Caryle Murphy 2011

  • Not only were the front-line militants fighting Israel, but they were living the ideals of Islamic fundamentalism, austerity, and combat that their comfortable cronyistic state backers had long since discarded in practice if not in rhetoric.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • Krongard was a curious source for thePostarticle, and reporters Walter Pincus and Joby Warrick irresponsibly chose not to disclose a couple of glaring facts about Krongard, such as his cronyistic association with Blackwater/Xe, and that he hardly can be characterized as a CIA insider.

    Frank Naif: The Discreet Charms of CIA Morale 2009

  • Where were the scathing editorials criticizing the veritable blizzard of no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton and so many other corporations with deep cronyistic ties to the administration?

    No, Atlas Shrugged is still fiction 2009

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