Sentence examples for based on cronyism from inspiring English sources

Assemblyman Roger L. Green, chairman of the Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Legislative Caucus, said in an interview that while some community school boards had benefited their local schools, others had "created corrupt cultures based on cronyism and political patronage".

Mr. McCain needs to show that if elected, his administration will not make appointments to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government departments based on cronyism and special interests, but will make them based only on merit.

Lending was based on cronyism, not credit quality.Not surprisingly, inflation and bad loans left the banking system to all intents and purposes insolvent as far as anyone can tell.

The odd, arcane system of selecting Supreme Court justices, which has been in place for close to a century, has been condemned as being based on cronyism and political connections, fueled by campaign contributions, and hidden behind "judicial conventions" that are nothing more than rubber stamps.

With his entourage of corrupt politicians in the HDZ party, Tudjman was the nation's first president to usher an independent Croatia based on cronyism and massive corrupt privatization deals.

Diem's rule was ultimately based on patronage and cronyism, and his Catholic-led faction wound up persecuting Vietnam's Buddhists, which distracted him from the fight America wanted him to pursue against the communists.

Instead of basing their hiring decisions on cronyism, employers now hire based on subconscious decisions that are made very early in the hiring process.

"We need to make sure that federal contracts are awarded based on confidence and integrity instead of cronyism and greed," Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, said.

One way or another they are all crushed by the system that the president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, has gradually built over the past 18 years, based on a mixture of fear and cronyism.

In response to the lawsuit, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement that job protections for teachers act as "a bulwark against cronyism, patronage and hiring based on who you know, not what you know," according to The Washington Post.

When cronyism is under control, leaders are promoted based on experience and capability.