Sentence examples for a crony in from inspiring English sources

We must in addition look for Representative Nunes and his ilk to back the president should he seek to install a crony in one of the positions within the Justice Department that oversees the Mueller investigation.

Maintaining control of the nomination procedures for the 2017 elections may help the CCP secure a crony in Hong Kong, but would that outcome ever be considered legitimate?

The country's chief prosecutor told US diplomats in Zagreb this year he had evidence that Sanader had arranged a bank loan for a business crony in return for a kickback.

In the late 1990s, South Korea suffered from a "crony capitalism" in which banks lent too freely to corporate customers, while the United States' financial troubles are rooted in excessive borrowing by individuals.

The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is to take over the administration of Tower Hamlets council, in east London, for two years after an inquiry commissioned by his department found evidence of a crony culture in which grants and properties were handed to favoured groups, and proper procedures were ignored.

Douglas Feith, a Cheney crony in the Defence Department, told a military official on September 12th 2001 that the campaign against al-Qaeda should be directed at Baghdad.

In the first chapter of Ripley's Game, Tom Ripley is musing on events from the earlier two novels in Highsmith's sequence: his forging of Dickie Greenleaf's will (after killing him) in The Talented Mr Ripley; his cremation of the body of a former crony in Ripley Under Ground.

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Going Beyond Comedy Mr. Lemmon's career took a new turn in the 1990's with critically praised ensemble roles as a crony of Jack Ruby's in Oliver Stone's "J.

They include Vice-President Musalia Mudavadi; Justice Minister Julius Sunkuli; Moi's crony-in-chief Shariff Nassir; and John Haroun Mwau, a Kanu vice-chairman.

While Putin is not named as a co- ­conspirator, the man behind the scheme — an oligarch named Yevgeniy Prigozhin — is a longtime crony known in Russia as "Putin's chef". The idea that he would meddle in a U.S. election without orders from Putin is ludicrous.