Sentence examples for cronies from inspiring English sources

The plagues are strikingly recreated from a visual effects point of view, but one of Rameses' cronies pops up to provide boring rational explanations for them; and the Red Sea just sort of goes away of its own accord.

Libyans outside the narrow circle of Gaddafi's family and cronies always feared and loathed him.

The benefits of these policies are mainly accrued by the family members and cronies of [party] leaders – billions are squandered every year".

He demanded that underlings report directly to him, without interference from Steinbrenner's cronies.

Attack the money, especially of a regime's "cronies", and policy must change.

His message in 1984 was simple: "Thatcher and her cronies intend to close the coal industry".

It is reported that the budget for the event is a cool US $1m, mainly raised by cronies who will no doubt be jostling to be front of the queue to wish their supreme leader many happy returns.

"It was bought off by Ahmadinejad cronies for less than 30,000 tomans [£6.70, $10.50] a square metre," says one.

Where, before, his primary contact with Downing Street was through cronies like Irwin Stelzer and Woodrow Wyatt – who could more easily be fended off ("A bloody menace," said Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, about Wyatt, a "poisonous little twerp") – now his children stepped into the job.

And the squad contained just 20 players rather than the permitted 22 because officials decided to bring along a couple of extra cronies instead.

"What we wouldn't want to see is a group of Sepp Blatter's cronies leading the power for reform in order to protect themselves".