"You know, there are places in the world where courts function just the way our courts do," Roberts said, "except every now and then, when there's a case that the strong man who runs the country is interested in because a crony is [from] one of the parties or whatever, and he picks up the phone and he tells the court, 'You decide the case this way.
In many of Russia's provinces, where they have already snapped up the best of local industry, the power station is a nice strategic fit in a crony-capitalist monopoly.Mr Chubais agrees that he explained his plans poorly, but insists that the majority of investors are now satisfied with the revised strategy.
He's the candidate of the Medicare status quo in a country facing an entitlement crunch, of government bailouts in an economy with a crony capitalism problem, and of contraceptive mandates in a society with a birth dearth.
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.
Crawford soon brought in a former Seattle crony named Marco Albori, a.k.a.a
The Oligarch Who Came In From The Cold 03.18.02 Not long ago Mikhail Khodorkovsky was vilified in the West as a crony capitalist who stiffed foreign business partners.
Perhaps he found his true level in the jeu-parti (courtly love debate) in which he discusses with a crony from the Crusades whether it is better to embrace one's love in the dark or to see her without embracing her, with wry allusions to the crony's crutch and his own potbelly.
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.
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?
"I almost peed in my pants," Kennedy told a crony who had heard the admission.
