cronyism
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Black women are just fed up with the double standards and the cronyism in venture capital. — Dee Poku Spalding, Marie Claire, "How I Plan to Get Funding Into the Hands of Black Female Entrepreneurs," 30 Jan. 2019 Making matters worse, the EB-5 Program is also a bipartisan source of political corruption and cronyism. — John Vecchione And, WSJ, "No More Pay-to-Play Green Cards," 18 Sep. 2018 Handouts like this to Amazon and other prominent companies are appalling in their cronyism, pure and simple. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "Facebook has a growing morale problem," 15 Nov. 2018 The program lapsed into cronyism this summer when its leader, Alain Kaloyeros, was convicted of a bid-rigging scheme to funnel money to firms whose executives donated to Mr. Cuomo’s campaign. — Gerard Gayou, WSJ, "A Republican Tries to Beat the Odds in New York," 26 Oct. 2018 But with economic growth came corruption, land-grabbing and cronyism as well as a culture of impunity typical of a broken justice system. — Fox News, "Cambodia's election a sure thing for long-serving leader," 27 July 2018 Norpac’s petition is an example of protectionist cronyism. — Steve Forbes, WSJ, "Trump’s Newsprint Tariff Is a Tax on America’s Free Press," 28 June 2018 By its nature, the village manager form of government is more representative of the population and less susceptible to cronyism. — Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, "After more than 60 years, Oak Park Village Manager Association announces dissolution," 15 June 2018 To end the misallocation of resources caused by small-business cronyism, public policy should be guided by the principle of size neutrality. — Robert D. Atkinson, WSJ, "Stop Propping Up Small Business," 6 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cronyism.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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