Sentences with phrase «cronies as»

The Obama administration was determined to shovel taxpayer money to its cronies as fast as it could.

That's why President Obama must use his remaining days in office to permanently keep as much of our lands and waters from Trump and his oil cronies as possible.

The mental image of Darwin and his eminent cronies as a «winning coalition of male primates» is irresistible.

Mr Awah, at the ongoing AASU Delegates Congress in Khartoum, Sudan has fraudulently chosen his friends and cronies as official representatives of national student unions across Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone among others for the purposes of electing his friends into office as his tenure as Secretary General of the continental student body ends this weekend.

Not exact matches

Antigovernment populists who deride the Ex-Im Bank as «corporate welfare» or «crony capitalism» so far have won in Congress, blocking reauthorization of the agency and forcing it since June to stop acting as lender of last resort to the foreign buyers of American - made products, from aircraft to car seats.

We already knew that the Chinese financial system was completely distorted from years of regulatory repression and crony capitalism, as a whole new report on finance in China by The Economist demonstrates (see the editorial here, and the report starting here).

In his book «The Great Deformation,» Stockman scrutinizes central banking as well as what he calls «crony capitalism» from the Depression to the present.

If one is a pastor or celebrity Christian not only is spiritual abuse and other abuses overlooked but overlooking abuse by your celeb cronies is casually accepted and asking questions is seen as breaching their «boundaries».

We're not condemned to Terry Malloy's income - generating but dead - end job as a boxer ordered to take a dive, or to his life as a crony provided a sinecure on the docks.

Now I preach on the weekends, but this slight doctrinal correction allows me to speak as a «visiting missionary» with more of an agenda of outreach and not a denominational crony.

Those without any moral guidance such as Pol Pot (2 million), Stalin and his cronies (61 million), Chinese (10 million), In sum the communist probably have murdered something like 110,000,000, or near two - thirds of all those killed by all governments, quasi-governments, and guerrillas from 1900 to 1987.

January and we are clearly and already out of the league title... It is not scandalous, but shameful and Wenger as well as all his cronies should be answering questions.

Since I'd seen him last, he'd lost his title to Michael Moorer; he'd lost his boxing license, which was suspended after he was found to have a heart ailment; and he'd lost Ego, the embattled German shepherd who exhibited a singular willingness to obey Holyfield's orders and, perhaps as a result, endured a lifetime of insults from Ing and his Akita cronies.

On 2nd Boxing Day maybe Katz can pack away all the 80s memorabilia / cronies and let the team look at the last 12 years as the only Oilers history that matters.

@Admin: you have revealed my real life identity and now I must cease my super heroe activities as a consequence for fear of threat to my family by the Evil Professor and his cronies!

Just as my dad and his aquatic cronies «enjoyed getting better as time tries to pass them by,» I, too, was realizing that physical limitations often are a state of mind and that most of us have more control over our lives — and bodies — than we assume.

«This website is dedicated to telling all the people of New York about Prince Andrew, his character, his judgment and his princely court full of political cronies and special interests as he crusades to convince people he should be king of New York.»

Nixon attacked Cuomo in sharp and personal terms, questioning his standing as a «real Democrat,» accusing him of being beholden to corporate donors and linking him and his «cronies» to Albany corruption.

«We are under attack by an empty - suited bully in Albany because we said «hell no» to crony capitalism, we said «hell no» to millionaires and billionaires, and we said «hell no» to pay - as - you - go progressivism,» he said.

Mr. Mahama, further indicated that, Ghanaians are now witnessing how a family and friends government operates, as government is filled with cronies and persons with blood ties to the president.

My ears should've been burning because the bar's regulars recounted with undisguised glee how Labour's triumphant members of the House of Lords mockingly inquired if I'd be writing an adulatory piece praising an institution I regularly mock as the House of Cronies.

Her BFF and crony, corrupt Chuck Schumer, has been as big a failure — and upstate county flybys won't hide that fact.»

The White House seemed to have recognized it as a lost battle and put in less effort, according to Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

[10] Some of the Labour peers appointed became known as Tony's Cronies.

The International Development Secretary laid out plans for «legally enforceable sanctions» as part of a wider review, which details a shake - up of the «crony» market in which Britain's aid provision operates.

One thing about politicians: they know how to read the tea leaves, and they and their cronies «yes» us to death as they laugh at our gullibility.

The former prime minister was also accused of using his powers of patronage to pack the House of Lords with his supporters, sometimes referred to as «Tony's cronies».

The New York Republican State Committee sent several mailings to voters describing Masterpole as a crony of Miner who would could not be trusted as a watchdog.

As opposed to the selective, crony cozy transfers of income and lifting of regulations that passed for tax reform and economic development policy under the reign of Governor Pataki.

Q: Wouldn't President Obama and his robe riders mine the same bottomless pit of taxpayer money as President McCain and his cronies?

«This tired scare tactic from Elizabeth Esty and her special interest cronies is as desperate as it is shameful,» Greenberg's campaign manager, Bill Evans, said.

Lessig noted that when David Brat beat Rep. Eric Cantor last month in a GOP primary in Virginia's 7th congressional district, he denounced Cantor as a «crony capitalist,» which is essentially the product of a corrupt campaign finance system.

So, overall, Cuomo and his cronies come off as petulant children who can't handle dissent without calling it an attack, don't care about the opinions of local representatives or urban democrats, and aren't doing anything to develop leadership among their base.

same as the old boss...... We will not be able to reverse the dismal state of economic free fall in NY State until we can get rid of all of the corrupt legislators and corrupt bureaucrats in NY State government who allow the fleecing of NY taxpayers to continue supporting crony state jobs.

Bent on getting many of his tribesmen, cronies and family into his already oversize government, MrAkufo - Addo, sources in government disclosed to TheaL - hAJJ, was persuaded to appoint an above - the - age retired Civil Servant as head of the nation's exchequer even though he was «disqualified» from occupying that position.

As my mother, Rose and I are constituents of this vapid fraud and impostor, we can truthfully testify that Failrich and his intensely incompetent staff of hand picked cronies ignored my urgent request for an immediate investigation into the NYC Department of Investigations (and City Council), when my NYC pension was capriciously and arbitrarily rescinded more than 25 years ago, on April 18, 1989.

Putting the special on the same day as the GOP presidential primary is basically a big ole» F you to (DSCC Chairman Mike) Gianaris and his cronies.

Fuentes got a $ 55,000 - a-year job as head of the city's community development program, replacing Mike Murphy, a crony of former mayor Jim Sottile.

Cuomo's adversaries see Mulrow's appointment as a striking example of the pervasive overlapping relationships between the financial industry and government, and of the crony culture that still prevails in Albany despite Cuomo's promises of reform.

It has been criticized as «crony capitalism» by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.

Can you imagine the outcry by Alesi and his Republican cronies if some criminal sued the police for shooting him as he tried to escape?!

It was the transfer of Nigeria's wealth through the patronage system to Obasanjo's allies in a move that typified the highest character of the «free market» — crony capitalism, as distinct from «state capitalism.»

Schneiderman said they've been able to obtain more than 75 dispositions from «corrupt officials and their cronies,» as a result.

Acting out their true nature as rapacious locusts, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his cronies with their mercantilist politics have turned Yorùbá land into waste land.

Her opponents and newspaper stories have portrayed Cancel as a «crony» of Sheldon Silver, the former speaker soon headed to prison for federal corruption crimes.

He ORDERED — repeat — ORDERED — increases in MedicAid spenddowns (you might KNOW this if you work with a Senior citizen on this as I do and as the government crony folks try to avoid at all costs to do — ie, any actual WORK).

Tennessee Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceAnti - Maduro Venezuelans not unlike anti-Castro Cubans of yore Congress is still doing nothing to save Christians in the Middle East Liberal students, colleges should learn from Liberty University's civility MORE and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich all met with Trump as he weighed his choice, before deciding on Pence.

Now, as Blair and his cronies are getting ready to stab Bush in the back and defecate on the Iraqis Congress is getting ready to pull the financing necessary to continue funding the US presence in Iraq, Tony Blair and most of the government continue to give their backing over the War in Iraq - Peter Hain is a notable exception.

Only recently — as a new campaign beckoned — has Lembo begun to oppose some of the worst excesses of Malloy's crony capitalism.

Alan Hevesi's admission that he used his position as the head of one of the nation's largest pension funds to enrich himself and his cronies is hardly a surprise.