Sentences with phrase «cosy relationship»

As a result of this, often cosy relationships are formed between defence contractors, politicians and civil servants.

Greenpeace enjoys an increasingly cosy relationship with the establishment.

The impression being given at the moment is quite the opposite, of far too cosy a relationship between HMRC and large companies.

The increasingly cosy relationship between government, industry and the Academy (we'd throw activism in there, too) is certainly a problem.

The stuckists deride what they see as cosy relationships between the Arts Council, publicly funded galleries, art critics who happen also to work for galleries whose artists they then review, and a handful of «inner - circle» galleries that represent the artists whom public galleries buy.

And when I look at the artists who have cosy relationships with Tate - not illegal ones, I hasten to add - I see a bunch of people who simply don't excite me: Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Michael Craig - Martin... are any of them the real talents of our time?

It's an issue that crosses party lines and has tainted our politics for too long, an issue that exposes the far - too - cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money.»

The once - cosy relationship between the state and federal political leaders requires a delicate balancing act in the wake of a new Labor government.

One might have expected the Catholic Church in Great Britain to enter a cosy relationship with the new Labour Government of Tony Blair elected in 1997.

The Jews prospered, and entered into a cosy relationship with the Egyptians.

Former Coca - Cola boss Terry Davis is still closely linked to the KKR / Rhone proposal, but there are mumblings in the market that Davis may not have the cosiest relationship with Treasury's biggest customer, Woolworths.

It's a good job Sauber and Ferrari have such a cosy relationship, isn't it?

There was mention of a cosy relationship between Edwards and the owners and how they'd regularly share emails throughout the day.

Yates reveals a little bit more about the cosy relationship between himself and his «friend» Wallis.

Miliband was in a more awkward position than Cameron because of revelations that Britain's security services had a cosy relationship with Gaddafi's intelligence agency - and even helped extradite a Libyan rebel - to - be to Tripoli from Hong Kong - during the period when his part was in power.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

The Lords is a check on the power of the Commons, and a cosy relationship between the two would have worrying constitutional implications.

Today marks the opening of the inquiry's examination of the potentially «cosy relationship» between the police and the press - «and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest».

Ken Livingstone's election chances have received a potential boost thanks to his cosy relationship with Green candidate Jenny Jones.

And the cosy relationship between it and successive British governments — of all stripes — is worrying.

As for Hanks, he captures the swashbuckling bravado of Bradlee (played by Jason Robards in All the President's Men), who realises that the cosy relationship he has formerly shared with presidents must come to an end.

not that it was any better before our universities developed the arbitoral system of the peer review that precluded people such as» outsiders» from interfering in their cosy relationship with the governments of the world, but it was the last straw in that book as well.