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I am fed up with complacency and cronyism , and I'm fed up with the floppy-haired Eton club Richard Desmond The newspaper publisher is the owner of the Sunday Express, the Daily Star and OK! magazine, as well as Television X and the Red Hot adult channels, although he strongly rejects descriptions of himself as a pornography baron.
These auditor deliberations form the more forensic part of the backdrop to an election campaign which also features a venomous array of claims and counter claims about corruption, cronyism and covert "Islamisation" with, it often appears, everyone accusing everyone else of racial bias.
The move would be unprecedented, but the election showed haywire voting patterns – Muslim Malays supporting a secularist, left-leaning Chinese party in Penang, for instance – while stories of cronyism and judicial corruption filled the ever-more-confident and influential blogosphere, which reports what tame newspapers won't.
The rift became irreparable, when Anwar — named by Newsweek as man of the year in 1998 — went on a campaign against corruption and cronyism that rankled many of the elite, including Mahathir's son, Mirzan who had myriad business dealings.
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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.
That is not how the majority of TDs see the Wallace affair and its implications for a group in the Dail that prides itself on leftwing purity, probity in public office and not being part of the dominant political cartels so often in they past they accused of corruption and cronyism.
The 50 best restaurants are chosen by a panel of 1,000 chefs, food writers and gastronomes, but Reyners says the voting process is riven with "conflicts of interest" and "cronyism " – "fishy" is the word she inevitably uses to sum it up.
Handing over the money at the offices of the Northern & Shell group, Desmond said: "I am fed up with complacency and cronyism , and I'm fed up with the floppy-haired Eton club.
The shock upset was ascribed to voter anger over perceived cronyism and corruption, discontent among Chinese and Indian minorities, and spiralling food and fuel prices.
Anwar offers a different vision for Malaysia, wanting to wean the country away from a policy of positive discrimination that for the past 30 years has ensured Malays dominate the country's politics, but which has been criticised for encouraging corruption and cronyism.
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The primary grammatical function of "cronyism" is as a noun . It typically refers to a practice or system where favoritism towards friends and associates, especially in political appointments, prevails over merit or qualifications, as supported by Ludwig AI.
Expression frequency: Very common
