Orban is passionate about soccer — and rewarding his cronies.
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And the Obama cronies that was staffed into the DOJ.
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Backbenchers feared it would let party chiefs promote their cronies.
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I see him and his cronies as a devouring force.
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Meanwhile, Mr Zuma's cronies have grown staggeringly and ostentatiously rich.
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One by one, Rhodora and her cronies are picked off.
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The rich world has lots of billionaires but fewer cronies.
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He appoints unqualified friends and cronies to top cabinet positions.
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Mer dispersed large payments to many Trump cronies and associates.
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"Congress must continue to investigate #ConDon & his cronies," he tweeted.
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But that decidedly is not a list of Romney cronies.
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Mr Assad is shaking down cronies to cover the bill.
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His cronies have bought up previously feisty broadcasters and websites.
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That may be bad news for Wheeler's chemical industry cronies.
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But Mr Kabila and his cronies appear untouchable, for now.
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Maduro uses the enterprise to reward his cronies and buy loyalty.
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What reconstruction has taken place has mostly benefited Mr Assad's cronies.
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I bet she is friends with Hillary and her cronies. Sad!
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Many fear privatisation would be a smokescreen for enriching his cronies.
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Was it the Prime Minister's cronies, trying to protect his position?
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Unsurprisingly, I have yet to receive a reply from Ryan's cronies.
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More targeted sanctions, which hurt the president's cronies personally, are needed.
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What the President and his cronies did to her is despicable.
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Mr. Silver's cronies maneuvered an ally, Alice Cancel, onto the ballot.
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Below are five excerpts of what Rosselló and his cronies discussed.
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And Brian Kemp and his cronies, by God, have found it.
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Instead, Trump's cronies are often working overtime to cover for him.
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It's not like we were doing 'Hillary Clinton's Cronies Did This.
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Seemingly, his cronies Theis (Mark Kandborg) and Geoffrey (Graeme Duffy) join in.
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We've made our demands very clear to the ayatollah and his cronies.
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Instead, the new president imprisons the oligarch and goes after his cronies.
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The central bank now auctions dollars instead of handing them to cronies.
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A compliant supreme court, stuffed with pro-government cronies, waved it through.
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Trump and his cronies want to run government more like a business.
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And government cronies snaffle up much of the hard currency that remains.
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Mr Zuma's cronies ransacked the state and plundered state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
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Financial sanctions against the assets of Kremlin cronies are also under discussion.
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Unless Maduros usurpation ends, he and his cronies will be strangled financially.
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Zuckerberg and his little cronies sure aren't, I'll tell ya that much.
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This board is completely captured by Musk, loaded with friends and cronies.
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She watched multiple women get pushed out and replaced by Jim's cronies.
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Trump could pardon his cronies or even (as he has suggested) himself.
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Hungarian daily the Magyar Nezmet claimed Orban and his cronies overcharged the
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One of Cal's cronies said that the tabloids owed them an award.
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These transactions and ownership manipulations involve various Lasso family members and cronies.
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Kraft's case is mild compared with what other Trump cronies have done.
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Can the president evade these limitations by filling key posts with cronies?
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Other companies owned by military cronies take a portion of the revenues.
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Unless Maduro's usurpation ends, he and his cronies will be strangled financially.
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Putin, whose cronies orchestrated this circus, wisely distanced himself from the spectacle.
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Mr. Maduro and his cronies became what they had vowed to change.
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Maduro and his cronies are the singular cause of all of this suffering.
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In Russia Vladimir Putin and his cronies control the main television-news stations.
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" • Max Boot: "Most presidents initially stock their administrations with cronies and ideological purists.
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Local councillors give jobs to cronies and award contracts in return for bribes.
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Land prospecting in Aleppo, often by cronies of Mr Assad, has already begun.
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We cannot work with their butcher or his cronies in Russia or Iran.
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Unless the sales are fair, a new generation of cronies will be born.
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That means getting away from the rentier system and keeping cronies at bay.
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There, government officials and their favored cronies do well while the masses languish.
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But Naylor and his cronies are creating shit like the Mang-O-Rita.
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Therefore, all wealthy Russians, including Putin and his cronies, keep their money abroad.
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Trump's political cronies may love that, but it comes at a huge price.
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The beneficiaries, however, turned out largely to be Assad's cronies, while inequality increased.
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Voters, it is time to shout No. No more manipulators, hacks and cronies.
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He has kept most of Mr Mugabe's most venal cronies in high positions.
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Stole all the water for their companies, cronies, pistachio farms and stupid dams!!!
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It came after years of overpumping of aquifers by cronies of the regime.
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But for Mr. Maduro and his cronies, that is tantamount to surrendering power.
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Nancy Kerrigan wept after having her knees bashed in by Tonya Harding's cronies.
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George W. Bush legendarily stocked his government with industry executives, lobbyists, and cronies.
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Democrats routinely mistake the panicked bluster of Trump cronies for unshakable masculine confidence.
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And you're not replacing real prosecutors with cronies w/out a massive fight.
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Most South Africans were glad to be rid of the kleptocrat and his cronies.
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Steve and his cronies have been spray-painting slut-shaming tags all over town.
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In all, he and his cronies are thought to have plundered perhaps $10 billion.
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Only Jack Dorsey and his cronies really know what's going to happen to Twitter.
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It is as if someone put up a statue of Hitler or Hitler's cronies.
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All the while his cronies gleefully looted the country's public purse and diamond mines.
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Is it the people or is it his, you know, regime and the cronies?
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Have Trump and his team of cronies ever thought about how hard that is?
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It has also grown addicted to kickbacks from cronies that feed the party machine.
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Extensive sanctions dry the regime's funding of military activities and kickbacks for its cronies.
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Some of it belongs to oligarchs, but much belongs to Putin and his cronies.
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When Mr. Fox raids one too many, farmers besiege him and his woodland cronies.
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Trump's conservative cronies are more likely to approach curbing porn from a censorship angle.
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News Analysis BEIJING — He has stifled his political opponents and enriched friends and cronies.
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He proceeded to reward his Revolutionary Guard cronies, whose business interests saw a bonanza.
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President Kabila now must resign, and his corrupt group of cronies must be replaced.
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It has hosted the masters of Helmand's wars and all their cronies and chroniclers.
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From a reliable source, historical context:Obama WH Cronies: Look how corrupt we can be!
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Pushing Mr. Gordhan out and stuffing the government with cronies will make that easier.
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Clinton would pillage the pocketbooks of regular Americans and work to enrich her cronies.
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Worker co-ops wound up in the hands of incompetent and corrupt political cronies.
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All ISPs know that Pai and his cronies are deferential to what the industry wants.
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One is with rivals in Beijing who want the reshuffle to favour their own cronies.
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Visa bans prevent many of Mr Hun Sen's cronies from travelling to the United States.
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One for Hillary Clinton and her cronies or and one of the rest of us.
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The renewed reporting keeps turning over rocks where we keep finding Hillary and her cronies.
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This network of cronies helps Putin rapidly ascend to the upper echelons of Russian politics.
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But the despot and his massively corrupt cronies blame everyone but themselves for Venezuela's plight.
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More old cronies, such as the Rosneft head, Igor Sechin, may find themselves under fire.
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When Karimov died in 2016, one of his cronies — Shavkat Mirziyoyev — took over the presidency.
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Plenty of poorer cronies exist and in China, the wise crony keeps his head down.
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Sanctions on Russian oligarchs clearly rattle Moscow and increase tensions between Putin and his cronies.
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Much of their money has ended up in the pockets of politicians' cronies, he contends.
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Did Comey's cronies give the fired FBI director a pass on this long-standing requirement?
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Planned Parenthood and their cronies vowed to spend $30 million dollars on the midterm elections.
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He would sometimes explain his behavior, praise me, or stop his cronies from mocking me.
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His cronies reap the profits, as the country's class and religious fault lines grow wider.
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Business people complain that government agencies and courts are tilted in favor of Erdogan cronies.
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Kenya, he said, is still led by some of Mr. Moi's closest allies and cronies.
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So one legislator hinted at a veto if political cronies were not given state judgeships.
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This straightforward to-do list is the opposite of what Trump and his cronies are doing.
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His main aim is simply to stay in power, while his cronies continue to enrich themselves.
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"The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news," they said in a statement.
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This action will severely affect any attempted currency movements by Maduro and his cronies moving forward.
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Maliki did this by firing professional military leaders he deemed disloyal and replacing them with cronies.
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The electoral commission and constitutional court, which must verify the results, are full of government cronies.
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Gennady Timchenko, one of Mr Putin's cronies, is an investor in the Vorobyov family's fish firm.
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It has undermined the independence of the judiciary by stacking the Constitutional Tribunal with its cronies.
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The government's critics blame inflated contracts given to cronies by Eskom, the state-owned power utility.
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But you and the rest of your deep state cronies, you have already done enough damage.
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Mrs May can and should do more to go after the money of Mr Putin's cronies.
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Maybe you should be doing art that apologizes for the millions killed by your homeland cronies.
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Western leaders took care to explain that their confrontation is with Mr Putin and his cronies.
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So his circus cronies barge into a fancy party, with the Bearded Lady belting this song.
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The entire exchange was captured via a rhinestone-encrusted camera phone from one of Mercedes's cronies.
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Instead, inflated contracts "were awarded to companies belonging to top government officials' cronies and close associates".
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All but a sliver of its property there is leased cheaply—and sometimes to palace cronies.
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While oligarchs and cronies of Putin certainly benefited from this growth, so did the average Russian.
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Instead, Mugabe gave prime farms to ruling party leaders, party loyalists, security chiefs, relatives, and cronies.
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What size firms are likely to be tighter cronies, small independent companies or large multinational conglomerates?
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He has also attempted to stack the Fed with political cronies who will do his bidding.
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His cronies largely control the media, but Turkey still jails more journalists than any other nation.
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And in its place, something else appears to be emerging, a system based on, well, cronies.
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He buys luxurious items for himself and his cronies while much of his population is starving.
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One of my mother's drinking cronies, a needling terror of a woman, stumbled over to us.
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Yet, even more can be done to bring pressure to bear on Maduro and his cronies.
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The sanctions targeting Putin's billionaire cronies imposed by President Trump is a proactive and necessary step.
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President Morales and his cronies are now counting on the Trump administration to save their skin.
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Mr. Zuma and his cronies will again claim that they are victims of vindictive Western colonialists.
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Putin's ambition to secure his cronies' future is essential to the system's present and future functioning.
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He noticed that they were venting against flailing political representatives and their apparent cronies among newsgatherers.
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We continue to expect Maduro and his cronies to do whatever it takes to thwart us.
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And let's be clear: They wouldn't exist if Trump and his cronies were innocent of wrongdoing.
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It needs to ensure those appointees aren't mere Trump cronies but are respected and independent figures.
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Or try telling the story about how the president and his cronies are getting rich from politics.
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Just 12% of them are tendered publicly; many go to cronies rather than the most suitable bidders.
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Viktor Orban's political dominance in Hungary is undermining liberal democracy and enriching the strongman's friends and cronies.
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His son has done the same and packed state institutions, such as the constitutional court, with cronies.
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Newspapers run by the president's cronies accused the opposition of conspiring with terrorists to steal the election.
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Thanos and his criminally underused cronies show up and kill basically everyone not named Hulk or Thor.
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Clinton and her cronies will do say or lie about anything to keep their grip on power.
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Global capital flows have made the world richer, but also allowed cronies to hide in tax havens.
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This has always been another shameful open secret of Bill and Hillary, Democrats, and other Clinton cronies.
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But then Mr Mugabe's cronies rigged elections in 363 and took back full control of the country.
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The first president, Jomo Kenyatta, and his cronies bought the huge estates of white settlers who left.
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All the main television-news outlets are now controlled by the state or by Mr Putin's cronies.
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Mr. Silver and his cronies maneuvered her onto the ballot, for reasons that were never really clear.
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There's only a few Americans who don't want that, and those people are politicians and their cronies.
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"In doing so, it ... creates a hostile environment for Putin and his cronies in London," Browder said.
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They said nobody could just take a few cronies from Minnesota and go to the North Pole.
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In another, someone cracked a code, then loaded a (fake) gun to ward off Virgil Corp cronies.
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After he got his bailout, he made sure his cronies all got huge bonuses first and foremost.
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To build his empire, he and his cronies privatized banks, hotels, TV channels, even the parliamentary cafeteria.
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His Republican cronies enable him because their love of power blinds them to the contagion they propagate.
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The economy seems to be growing, but a significant number of corporations are controlled by Orbán's cronies.
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These latest sanctions, then, are meant to put even more economic pressure on Maduro and his cronies.
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Feeling betrayed by his former cronies, including the mother of his two daughters, he turned government informer.
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Cash-strapped independent media are of course cheaper for the president's cronies to buy and de-fang.
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When resources are devoted to boondoggles, and companies are run by incompetent cronies, everyone ends up poorer.
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Trust one of Draco Malfoy's former cronies to make a career out of hand-to-hand combat.
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Let us not forget that Maduro and his cronies were warned not to take these dangerous steps.
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I want to resist the president, his cronies and their destructive agenda(s) any way I can.
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Maduro and his cronies should know that they will be held accountable for any violence on their part.
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Instead, it emerges from shadowy circles of Putin's closest allies and cronies, often without records, warning or explanation.
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He championed privatisation, but like most Middle Eastern leaders used it to bolster his cronies and closer relatives.
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He favours the advice of cronies, as well as of an unelected council of bigwigs selected by himself.
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Certainly food for thought as Trump and his cronies start to recreate the FDA in their own image.
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She refused to do a strip tease in front of the inebriated King Ahasuerus and his drunken cronies.
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This would not be a bad thing, given how many of Mr Zuma's cronies still hold senior positions.
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Now that Mr Talon has neutered parliament, his opponents fear he will further enrich himself and his cronies.
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These are important questions to answer, and it&aposs high time that Putin and his cronies were unmasked.
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"People call us felool," he said, employing a derisive term used by some Egyptians for Mubarak-era cronies.
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The morning after the vote, newspapers run by the president's cronies proclaimed Mr Yildirim the victor in Istanbul.
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Much of this money finds its way to cronies of the prime minister, often via overpriced procurement contracts.
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Park and his government cronies used the kickbacks to finance election campaigns, buy-off supporters and enrich themselves.
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Let's put aside the comic book source that inspired the Mad Titan's quartet of cronies for a moment.
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Ordinarily there would be buffers to cushion against such shocks, but Mr Jonathan's cronies have largely squandered them.
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Trump's main trust is in his own family and very few trusted cronies, like the attorney Michael Cohen.
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They do nothing to bolster the environment; they only benefit cronies who profit from these radical environmental policies.
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Beyond that, Trump has a small circle of cronies who have stuck with him through thick and thin.
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Mr. Poroshenko cannot simply allow one of Mr. Shokin's cronies to slide into the ousted official's tainted seat.
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His tough cronies Beans (Spencer Glass) and Mutto (Danny Harris Kornfeld), have become as much buffoons as menaces.
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" One tweet from Pompeo previewed an upcoming Fox appearance to discuss "newly released emails of @HillaryClinton & her cronies.
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Juche, as developed by Kim Il Sung and his cronies, was designed to solve both of these problems.
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Trump hasn't tweeted about Crooked Hillary and her cronies not being able to lock down her computer systems.
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Mengele had drowned in the sea off São Paulo in 1979 and been secretly buried by Nazi cronies.
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P.A.'s shameful history of putting industry cronies before the people they are supposed to protect is over.
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Far from having a web of powerful cronies, Mr. Bentley seemed to have fewer allies by the day.
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Longtime Fatah cronies such as Mahmoud al Aloul, Jibril Rajoub and Saeb Erekat offer more incitement of violence.
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The Mugabes and their cronies have usurped all kinds of natural resources on massive scale, including from wildlife.
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The president and his cronies talk a lot about representing "the people," but they don't mean all Americans.
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Well, they're probably going to have to take a back seat to your mayor or governor's political cronies.
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Mr. Maduro, in comparison, is well fed and his cronies continue to rob the country of its resources.
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They pledged to recover money stolen by the country's deposed president and his cronies, and to return it.
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Trump and his cronies frequently engage in the latter, and it's less and less subtle with each new day.
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The country was the region's breadbasket until the government began stealing farms and handing them to ruling-party cronies.
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Cops formed cliques with city commissioners, who brazenly interfered with open investigations involving their cronies, the grand jury found.
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In Poland the populist-nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government has stacked courts and state-run companies with cronies.
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But the money, believed to be a fraction of what he and his cronies actually stole, was long gone.
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Moving against Cabello suggests that the Trump administration has ruled out a soft landing for Maduro and his cronies.
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Mr Kabila's rich cronies are not happy, either—they had hoped that he could rig the poll more competently.
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However, even if Mr Zuma and his cronies are on their way out, they can still do enormous harm.
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It's not to invite your cronies to steal from the budget, but to do something good for the country!
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Those cronies were the ones that would have been able to tell who killed Tupac and who killed Biggie.
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"The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news," the statement said, according to the LA Times.
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Since then Fedor has been getting torn apart in the Chechen press and on social media by Kadyrov's cronies.
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One possible explanation is panic that Donald Trump might win the American election and install one of his cronies.
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Dependence on Russian gas is another reason for Europe to think twice before directly challenging Putin and his cronies.
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He was one of the first senators to ask the White House to sanction specific high-profile Venezuelan cronies.
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Firms regularly flout rules about the independence of directors by, for example, packing boards with cronies of the chairman.
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Arthur brought to this semi-subterranean world of cronies, cash, and cigars a bonhomie that gradually edged toward dissipation.
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The former DA and state Attorney General calls herself a "progressive prosecutor," who'd go after Trump and his cronies.
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Why are Trump and his cronies in the Senate trying to prevent the American people from learning the truth?
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For now, the change is just at the top: only Mugabe, his wife and their cronies have been removed.
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His administration is also riven with leakers, and the cronies are tasked with identifying them and rooting them out.
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"Trump and his cronies do so many despicable things that it can be hard to keep track," Clinton writes.
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The Russian leader, they said, desperately wants to ease the pressure of sanctions, on his economy and his cronies.
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An infrastructure program involving real money could be very lucrative for Trump cronies, or for that matter Trump himself.
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The cronies are featured in ham-handed vignettes of co-optation, each featuring Mr. Mister or his wife, Mrs.
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The first place he should look for new revenue streams was among his fabulously wealthy oligarch cronies, opponents said.
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Trump has already turned televised appearances with his sycophantic cabinet and his congressional cronies into Dear Leader praise-fests.
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No funding Barr to meddle into investigations of Donald Trump, Donald Trump's family or any of Donald Trump's cronies.
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It was a time when striking workers risked brutal, sometimes murderous retaliation by greedy bosses and their rich cronies.
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NATO allies are now thinking anew about more coordinated responses to track and impose sanctions on Mr. Putin's cronies.
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The unsurprising response from Maduro and his cronies — in typical Chavista fashion — has been to unleash violence and repression.
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Other shortsighted decisions by Mr. Redstone and his cronies — rooted in hubris and old-fashioned greed — dragged Paramount down.
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For his company, Belfort recruits Donnie Azoff (an eccentric Jonah Hill) and a team of other generally questionable cronies.
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Just a few moments on Breitbart will remind any patriotic American that Bannon and his cronies must be resisted.
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Hopefully, the judge handling the New York Times case won't help Pai and his cronies continue to abuse the law.
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That is still the case in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, where the president's cronies know that they are not universally popular.
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Last December South Africans forced out President Jacob Zuma, a would-be strongman who let his cronies loot the state.
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Burdett Loomis, a political commentator, says state agencies especially saw an "unravelling" as Mr Brownback replaced experienced staff with cronies.
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Of course, Taft and his cronies were delusional if they thought they could have won the '52 election without Ike.
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Rick, Maggie, Ezekiel and the rest then began shooting, drawing Negan and his cronies back inside while The Sanctuary crumbled.
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Often the key figures are cronies of Mr Putin, like Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former chef, rather than official state employees.
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Charbonnet had to fight back against critics who cast her as an insider who would steer city work to cronies.
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Oligarchs who own television stations use them as propaganda machines to destroy their opponents' reputations, or to get cronies elected.
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The expansion of the CPP's central committee last year by more than 300 cronies smacks of trying to please everyone.
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The first GLOMAG target list, unveiled in December, named officials and their cronies from China to Russia, Nicaragua to Myanmar.
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Yet Mr Putin's cronies are experts at covering their tracks, using proxies to stay several steps removed from their assets.
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If the ACA collapses thanks to Trump and his Republican cronies, who do they think voters are going to blame?
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His body was dragged into the restroom, where Coonan gave his cronies a demonstration of the fine art of dismembering.
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Many mainstream observers have welcomed this development, considering it a superior alternative to Trump and his nationalist cronies making decisions.
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But so, too, should a dozen other stunningly bad acts committed by this President, his family members and his cronies.
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The country is still haunted by the abuses of Mr Ben Ali and his cronies, who drove away foreign investors.
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He had no desire to reconnect with his former cronies, no interest in being compensated for keeping his mouth shut.
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When it comes to the mismanagement of an economy, Mugabe and his army of cronies are really the world champs.
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The tech world, barring Peter Thiel and cronies, was openly averse to Trump's harsh rhetoric about immigrants during the campaign.
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He staffed the prosecution authority and the police service with supplicants who dared not go after him and his cronies.
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Mr. Kim is a reclusive figure who traveled to Vietnam by train and governs with a tiny circle of cronies.
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Trump, a distinctly uncharitable man, mostly appoints his family and cronies with little to no discernible qualifications other than ideology.
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But environmental groups assailed it as a move by allies of the fossil fuel industry granting favors to industry cronies.
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That's when he will hold an unconstitutional referendum to elect a constituent assembly of political cronies to rewrite the constitution.
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It's pretty simple: to create vested property rights for their fossil fuel cronies before time runs out on this presidency.
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Supposedly free-market politicians are already discovering that crony capitalism is fine as long as it involves the right cronies.
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Ms. Warren promised the president a "massive fight" in the Senate if he seeks to replace "real prosecutors with cronies."
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"The Fed is not a place to put your cronies," former Federal Reserve governor Sarah Bloom Raskin told CNN Business.
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The Democratic contender for town clerk was pistol-whipped by six of Capone's cronies while his wife and son watched.
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The Night King and his ice cronies walked right through the line of fire that was holding back the wights.
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But if Trump is allowed to stack the Cabinet with yes men, cronies, and sycophants, then the danger becomes severe.
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It has already placed cronies in the military, the civil service and state-owned companies, and is now politicising the judiciary.
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They might also say that Trump's firing Comey for investigating his cronies simply suggested that Trump himself had something to hide.
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But his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies would make him an inflammatory pick as secretary of state.
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Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the list was "so full of cronies it would embarrass a medieval court".
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Maduro and his corrupt cronies have turned Venezuela's vast natural resources into a source of income to sustain their criminal enterprise.
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Thirsty and his cronies, who lock up Andre and grandma in an extremely fancy, unnecessary vault Lucious has in his house.
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In December Nora Brownell, a former FERC commissioner appointed by George W. Bush, described the proposed subsidies as "cash for cronies".
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Mr Ramaphosa's most urgent task is to kick out of his cabinet the cronies and hacks put there by Mr Zuma.
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"You certainly don't want to fall into the trap of seeing Putin and his cronies as master chess players," Nexon says.
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The new man promoted cronies and created parallel units, says Julius Odwe, a career cop who was his deputy until 2011.
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A government of, for, and by the people becomes all about protecting the rule of one individual or party, plus cronies.
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Though Trump has appointed a number of judges to federal courts, they mostly appear to be traditional Republicans, not Trump cronies.
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The government is fighting dozens of suits abroad to claim art and property owned by the former dictator and his cronies.
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" If further elaboration were needed, it could have included the line, "We know where you and your cronies keep your money.
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When Burge returned to Chicago and joined the police force, he and his cronies used similar devices to shock their suspects.
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Instead, he heard, one after another, the names of mere time-servers and hack politicians and unknown cronies of the General.
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In December, Mr. Zuma fired his respected finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, for opposing questionable deals that would enrich Zuma cronies further.
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"Tonight, we make sure that @realDonaldTrump and his rich cronies hear the impact of his cruel, heartless policies," the group tweeted.
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He manipulates news coverage in many ways, including letting cronies snatch control of national media outlets that fell on bad times.
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What gives is the sorry degree to which Mr. Putin and his Kremlin cronies have consolidated full control over Russian politics.
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He spent millions of dollars in public money building himself a grand estate, and put cronies and relatives in senior positions.
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"This is an effort from Mitch McConnell and his cronies to steal this election from the people of Alabama," Moore said.
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The idea that sanctions would force Putin to back off by targeting his "cronies" and "oligarchs" also has some serious holes.
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He has run the economy like a patronage network, lavishing credit on companies controlled by cronies, while yielding growth through debt.
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He had scant respect for any of those who got to wield power in Congo - from Mobutu and his cronies onwards.
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It was a classic populist complaint: the will of the people, thwarted by political elites and their cronies in the media.
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At the very least it sends yet another message that this is an administration in service of itself and its cronies.
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Many of Mr. Zuma's cronies remain in prominent positions in the party, and they pose the greatest challenge to Mr. Ramaphosa.
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The opposition and the United States must be persuaded to grant Mr. Maduro and his closest cronies safe haven in Havana.
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Somehow, Thomas Bach, the I.O.C. president, and his stodgy cronies have succeeded in creating a new look for the old Olympics.
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Clinton, they said, had beckoned her cronies in the woods to smile for selfies and make her look folksy and beloved.
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In too many places, the state exists mostly to enrich the ruler and a tiny circle of cronies at the top.
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During the 20th century, three Somozas systematically violated human rights and used their state control to enrich themselves and their cronies.
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One cannot stand the constant, never-ending bombardment of lies, and the bizarre antics of the president and his Republican cronies.
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But the truth is most lobbyists are not at all like Abramoff or his cronies were back in their glory days.
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But in recent months, they have also had to watch out for pro-government cronies wielding a green dye known as zelyonka.
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Why is it all right to launder the money of Saudi princes, or of African kleptocrats, but not that of Kremlin cronies?
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Why is everyone going after one of the first Muslim women in Congress, rather than the white supremacist president and his cronies?
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He has called for a government made up of technocrats, rather than political cronies, and for corrupt politicians to be held accountable.
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So Verris and his cronies decide they'll clone Henry but "edit out" things like empathy and the ability to feel any pain.
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A tweaking of affirmative action policies is possible, perhaps to ensure that benefits go more to poor Malays, rather than government cronies.
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There is evidence instead that government propaganda, funnelled through media beholden to Mr Erdogan and his cronies, has had its desired effect.
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Venezuela's desperate masses and members of the security forces have witnessed firsthand the criminality, illegitimacy and unpopularity of Maduro and his cronies.
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After all, he needs that money not just for his own entertainment but also to buy off his cronies and trigger men.
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Perhaps fearing assassination, he rarely enters Bujumbura and seems to have bunkered down with a small group of cronies in the countryside.
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The man instructs one of his cronies to take Daryl around the back of the truck and start searching for more supplies.
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But if you read about this Trump character and his cronies, it won't be long before you find some pretty alarming things.
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A corrupt government can create a blockchain system to count the votes and just allocate an extra million addresses to their cronies.
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I will leave it to Trump's supporters, apologists and cronies to tell the world how proud they are to stand with him.
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If the junta blocks reform, allies such as America should impose financial sanctions and travel bans on its leaders and their cronies.
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However, true to his limited, yet troubling track record, his plan will mostly benefit his corporate cronies, doing nothing to help America.
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We wouldn't be having a protest against inhumane immigration policies...I hate Trump and his cronies more than ever right now.... pic.twitter.
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If true, that would have ensured that friendly cronies made the final stop on the Venezuelan-debt gravy train before payments ceased.
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Instead of appointing fresh figures as his Cabinet ministers, he tapped cronies late at night and, like Trump, swapped them out constantly.
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And President Zeman and his cronies should know that if anything happens to any journalists investigating him, they will be held accountable.
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He is surrounded by a bunch of crooks and cronies, some of whom helped him cheat his way to the White House.
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Elite unity has also disintegrated, as shown by the purge of Bo Xilai, Ling Jihua, Zhou Yongkang and their cronies since 2012.
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Smitty's cronies rough him up a bit as he pleads to see Smitty for just five minutes, claiming he's an old friend.
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The government has recovered less than $5 billion in cash, stocks, real estate, artworks and jewelry from the Marcoses and their cronies.
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I knew my new boss was building a case against me, in order to bring in her cronies from her previous company.
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But in all seriousness, bro, SNL's vicious lampooning of the president and his cronies is gonna make things happen, bro, just watch.
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In theory, yes—though he would face legal challenges and a tidal wave of criticism for shielding his cronies from the law.
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But he has stacked his regime with cronies and has brazenly flouted the standards and protocols meant to rein in executive overreach.
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"Talks between Russia and Maduro's cronies are only useful if they are discussing retirement beaches for Maduro," Mr. Bolton said on Friday.
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For its part, Turkey's media is overwhelmingly owned by Mr. Erdogan's cronies, and it has paid scant attention to his campaign rivals.
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Ukraine still has to jail its kleptocrats and their cronies, and sack the officials who looted the medical system for so long.
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Trump's cronies will feel freer to break the law, and nonpartisan civil servants less likely to blow the whistle when they do.
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Responsible for helping Mr. Navalny file legal complaints against corrupt officials and Kremlin cronies, she poured her energy into investigating Mr. Prigozhin.
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In Venezuela, cronies of President Maduro systematically loot their country's oil wealth, depriving ordinary Venezuelans of the most basic food and medicine.
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But with so many insiders and Zuckerberg cronies as directors, that puts the onus on Sue Desmond-Hellman, the lead independent director.
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But he added that if the staff is primarily "cronies" of Mr. Priebus from the party committee, it could be a problem.
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What better way to do this than to help put an inexperienced, incompetent narcissist and his cronies in charge of our country?
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"Cronies inside Samsung will start taking sides, and this is a risky situation you can't control from a jail cell," he said.
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Tax law and economic regulations are fundamentally political, enforcement cherry-picked in a way that punishes government critics and enriches its cronies.
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President Aliyev has systematically isolated, and then fired, longtime members of the regime in order to make way for his own cronies.
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He loathed Obama, who had applied economic sanctions against Putin's cronies after the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of eastern Ukraine.
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But make no mistake: The Trump family and assorted cronies are using the highest office in the land to stuff their pockets.
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This order ensures that responding to citizens' needs takes a back seat — and every chieftain and his cronies gets their pockets lined.
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The safety of billions of people around the world is directly threatened by the actions of Trump and his fossil-fuel cronies.
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Now Trump, Pence, and their Republican cronies want to allow health care workers to discriminate and rip away access to medical care.
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You could totally imagine Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Eleven biking away from Dr. Brenner's cronies to "Chase Across The 69th Street Bridge," right?
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He wallows in the gutter with his cronies, flunkies, lackeys, and suck-ups, but he can't drag the whole country there with him.
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Some have been expecting updates, but been disappointed that Tim Cook and his cronies were mum about AirPods at both fall Apple events.
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Tillerson, do you believe that Vladimir Putin and his cronies are responsible for ordering the murder of countless dissidents, journalists and political opponents?
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Before Hillary is able to rewrite this history, let's look at the many ways the Clintons and cronies contributed to the Great Recession.
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But in DC, Kessler and his cronies would be surrounding an enormous statue of Andrew Jackson, the president who forcibly relocated Native Americans.
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Even if the foreign service does not end up exclusively staffed by PiS cronies, the change would permanently politicise a fairly neutral institution.
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President Donald Trump has called for the Fed to cut rates and tried unsuccessfully to appoint two of his cronies to its board.
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"The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news," Daleiden said in a statement on the Center for Medical Progress's website.
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South Africans had grown used to power cuts under his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, whose cronies looted and mismanaged nearly everything the state controls.
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This system of "conditional" property rights has allowed Mr Putin's friends and cronies to put their children into positions of wealth and power.
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Bryan built his populist movement around the little person—the farmers on the prairies—against the east-coast capitalists and their political cronies.
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"We see some of the old cronies of Yanukovich, basically racketeer businesses, being replaced by people close to the sitting president," Saakashvili said.
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The political tendency to try to spread the money around to cronies and base voters needs to be avoided here at all costs.
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Fernandez said Nisman had been tricked by a former Argentine spy chief and his cronies into fabricating baseless allegations to destabilize her government.
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Worse, much of the money is owed to state-owned banks, which are under fire for having extended dud loans to political cronies.
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Unlike movies such as Citizen Kane, Burn After Reading doesn't offer any easy one-to-one character analogies to Trump and his cronies.
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Russia-watchers will be waiting to see if this year the Kremlin's cronies have made more of an effort to cover their tracks.
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And some reflect bad faith: politicians in the previous government leant shamelessly on public banks to supply money to their cronies in business.
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More money thrown at them by Goldman Sachs will inevitably be used in a similar manner — to line the pockets of government cronies.
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So it's fair to assume that Putin and his cronies can use this law to stifle freedom of speech and quash the opposition.
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Perhaps it's inevitable that every presidential administration fills a few empty seats with cronies, hacks and ideologues who are unqualified for their jobs.
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But Mugabe not only allowed violent takeovers of commercial white farms but also distributed them to cronies who had no training in agriculture.
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Gray cronies spinning around him like some nightmarish boy band on a reunion tour, a clip of his antics became an internet sensation.
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Speaking pragmatically, the ideal time for a president to pardon his cronies or allies is when he is about to leave the presidency.
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While sustained diligence is obviously necessary -- Trump and his cronies will attempt to get away with all manner of malefaction—hysterics don't help.
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He has unleashed credit to his cronies in the real estate and construction industries, who have filled the horizons with monumental infrastructure projects.
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He could more effectively paint Trump as a corrupt plutocrat who sold out the people he promised to help to aid rich cronies.
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Over the summer, ProPublica reported that the V.A. was being unofficially run by a trio of Trump cronies out of Mar-a-Lago.
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The economic changes have been relatively modest – some goodies for the leaders' core supporters and enrichment for the new insiders and their cronies.
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In much the same vein, the firing of a widely-respected American diplomat in order to enrich Trump's cronies reeks of swampian corruption.
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In other words, the safety net isn't about helping agriculture in general so much as it's about helping a small number of cronies.
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Trump promised to be a voice that will stand for them and against the corporate cronies who have fixed the system against them.
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In play is $630 million from his estate that the United States says he and his cronies laundered through the American financial system.
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Many of the farms were turned over to Mugabe's cronies, who subsequently did not harvest the land, further contributing to Zimbabwe's economic collapse.
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Then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stripped his political opponents of power, appointed his cronies to run the army, and killed peaceful protesters.
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Government cronies, businesses and the growing middle class are already nervous ahead of an election in late 2018 and want to keep money offshore.
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Nothing in the history of hip-hop was bigger than the bi-coastal beef that Pac took part in with his Death Row cronies.
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I have daughters and a granddaughter who need the opportunities that the incoming administration and their state and local cronies are vowing to destroy.
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The central question in my opinion is did Hillary Clinton and her cronies get preferential treatment in her email server investigation for political reasons?
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Most of it went on the grandiose schemes of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, the authoritarian president and self-proclaimed "Protector", or was distributed to his cronies.
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Once it has identified an opportunity, the Kremlin looks to increase its influence and to make money for cronies who operate on its license.
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In South Africa, an elected leader who subverted institutions and let cronies loot with impunity was tossed out by his own party in January.
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His presidential guards remain loyal because they, at least, are well-paid and he maintains a large network of cronies who benefit from corruption.
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Which was more intimidating: Sitting down in a hotel room to discuss his book with Oscar royalty, or hanging with Sheeran and his cronies?
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Hardly anyone expected his successor, João Lourenço, to break the chokehold that the dos Santos family and their cronies have on the Angolan economy.
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There were no reports of hackers derailing the voting process itself, so it's not like Putin and his cronies tampered with the election results.
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Most importantly, it postpones their reckoning with the fact that Trump in office has done little but enrich himself, his cronies, and the 1%.
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The Americans say the only topic for discussion with Mr Maduro and a handful of his cronies would be the conditions of their departure.
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Many children of Mr Putin's friends and cronies hold senior positions in Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, or own firms that depend on its contracts.
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Likely because this exploration of love and sex happens while Tinker and his masked cronies torture everyone who is down there—seemingly without logic.
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Widespread land grabbing by Cambodian cronies and foreign investors triggered a tide of popular resentment and occasional violent resistance as the 2013 election approached.
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There is a reduction in social spending, perhaps because the elite that toppled the previous leaders now seek to enrich themselves and their cronies.
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" He continued, "This is just the beginning, we need to protect the Mueller investigation and ensure that Trump and his cronies are held accountable.
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"Maduro and his cronies, they've always had an annual exercise regime, so part of this is the annual regime just continuing," US Navy Adm.
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Whitaker seemingly has looked the other way as Santos and his cronies enriched themselves, made backdoor deals with Odebrecht, and targeted an American citizen.
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It scares me that we're burning out, that we really are going numb, that outrage after outrage from Trump and cronies is exhausting us.
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When you erode trust in the government, and when leaders use the office of the president to enrich themselves and their cronies,democracy falters.
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Shortly after the Pizza Restaurant opened, South Korean artist Hwang Kim decided that pizza shouldn't be restricted to Kim Jong-il and his cronies.
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One of Seal's smuggling cronies got caught up in Operation Screamer, later cutting a deal with the DEA and agreeing to give them Seal.
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So he enlists his fellow cop Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to be his white double and actually go meet with Breachway and his cronies.
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In too many countries, autocratic governments are able to use cronies or proxies to control major news outlets and manipulate the flow of information.
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It's time for Trump to negotiate a trade deal that will help American workers and Main Street manufacturers — and not his Wall Street cronies.
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His targets didn't take kindly to the president's attacks: Your cabal of unprincipled, unethical, dishonest, and sycophantic cronies is being methodically brought to justice.
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Many in the crowd said it was simply not up to Mr. Bouteflika and his cronies to impose a solution to the country's crisis.
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Trump has appointed unqualified cronies to important posts—Bush nominated his White House counsel, who had never been a judge, to the Supreme Court.
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The report by the Public Protector, appointed to investigate complaints of government misconduct, implicated the President and his cronies, although Zuma has denied the allegations.
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A day after the funeral, Mr Zuma reshuffled his cabinet, firing the respected finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, and his deputy, and replacing them with cronies.
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While cronies prosper from logging concessions or licences to set up gambling operations, schools crumble and health care is out of reach for Cambodia's poorest.
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Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping launched his economic programme, the party-state has jealously guarded this walled garden for its officials and their business cronies.
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It is prone to sharp drops when its finance ministry, responsible for the National Treasury, comes under attack from President Jacob Zuma or his cronies.
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Chances are a full repeal of Obamacare is not going to happen, but that doesn't mean Trump and his cronies can't mutilate it beyond recognition.
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In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has either gotten cronies to buy up independent media outlets or pressured others into shutting through punitive tax policies.
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PiS was quick to overhaul the constitutional tribunal, stacking it with cronies, and has also replaced the heads of the public radio and television broadcasters.
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Making Eletrobras a company with dispersed share ownership would dislodge politicians from control of a utility that for decades provided their cronies with lucrative jobs.
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Just as Felix and Isabella are getting on the plane, Pablo's cronies — hey there, Blackie (Julian Diaz) — capture them and drive them down to Medellin.
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Mr Mugabe wrecked the country's largest export industry by grabbing land from white farmers and handing it to cronies who often knew little about farming.
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However, an attempt at such a negotiation failed last year, and there is no sign that Mr Maduro and his cronies will voluntarily surrender power.
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They do not envy Mr Putin's cronies who live behind high fences, fly on private jets and have built special rooms for their fur coats.
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With all due respect to Jerry Jones and his creeplord rentier peers, they are not in the same universe as Vladimir Putin and his cronies.
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For Trump cronies like Conway and Gingrich, Romney is beyond the pale, the very embodiment of the respectable elite that Trumpism was designed to overthrow.
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Today London is home both to Mr Putin's cronies and to opponents of his regime trying to lay the groundwork for the day it vanishes.
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Mr Mubarak and his cronies, not to mention the police responsible for killing and maiming hundreds in the clashes of 2011, are out of jail.
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Yet, the bill's architects still found the time and energy to ensure their K Street cronies received their carve-outs and taxpayer funded pay day.
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"The Trump family and assorted cronies are using the highest office in the land to stuff their pockets," Tim Egan wrote Friday in the Times.
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Browsing through the data that the ICIJ has so far disclosed, it is striking how rich the cronies and relatives of some politicians have become.
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And parliament is again discussing an economic reconciliation law to forgive the cronies who ran Mr Ben Ali's economy and bring them back into business.
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Erdoğan and his cronies grudgingly conceded defeat in the other two, but for them Istanbul was simply too large of a political prize to abandon.
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Hopefully, William McKinley and his robber baron cronies will be left to sleep peacefully in their graves; along with the deceptive "Full Dinner Pail" motto.
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If such projects were a metaphor for prestige during the Soviet era, in post-Soviet Russia they have become a feeding frenzy for Kremlin cronies.
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Of course for this to happen, Trump would need to subvert the rule of law by installing cronies and personal loyalists in key regulatory positions.
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North Korea on Thursday hammered new United Nations sanctions in response to its latest nuclear test, accusing the nations involved of being President Obama's cronies.
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It will be the first time for people to shift power away from him and his cronies and toward people willing to hold him accountable.
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Those same cronies then spent millions to elect Donald Trump, who is now following the same playbook of denial, disinformation, and deflection on climate change.
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But a more honest assessment of what this presidency represents came from Trump when he was in his element, surrounded by Mar-a-Lago cronies.
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While Mr. Barnes languished behind bars, though, his former cronies, his wife and his girlfriends began squandering the criminal enterprise that had made them millionaires.
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Mao loomed large that year as people gathered to watch the depositions of his political cronies, known as the Gang of Four, on state television.
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" Daleiden published a statement through his organization, the Center for Medical Progress, stating that "The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news.
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Ms. Choi edited Ms. Park's speeches, reportedly placed her associates in positions of power in the government and helped her cronies win lucrative government contracts.
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Besides, he added, Mr. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil with no prior diplomatic or political experience, wants capable managers, not political cronies.
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Duterte supported the burial of Marcos, who was widely accused of brutality and plunder and enriching his cronies and family, which remains influential in politics.
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But Trump and his cronies, notably Mitch McConnell and Rupert Murdoch, know full well what they are doing, making their actions all the more despicable.
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His opponents say he and his people interfered in the work of the judiciary and media, intimidated voters and appointed cronies to public sector job.
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The main beneficiaries of Russia's turn towards China are Mr Putin's cronies and state firms such as Gazprom and Rosneft, the state gas and oil giants.
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It could be going to terrorists, insurgents, warlords, criminals, wherever these authoritarian governments or the cronies who have access to their money choose to divert it.
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But for all his carnival-barking persona, Trump has rightly condemned the establishment for supporting tax breaks for the rich and government handouts for corporate cronies.
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But at the very least Pakatan Harapan is likely to reform some of the handouts, to make them less of a gravy train for UMNO cronies.
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He abused the traditional Christmas exercise of presidential indulgence to try to free political cronies jailed for corruption, but the supreme court stood in his way.
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Well, it's no surprise that Maduro used the money to use for tasks like paying off cronies, crushing pro-democracy activists, and funding ineffective social programs.
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Standing up to Trump—an imperative as he and his cronies come for us and the literal planet we live on—will necessarily take many forms.
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Rather, he was the handpicked successor of José Eduardo dos Santos, who had run the country since 1979, and whose cronies controlled much of the economy.
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Cronies of Mr Zuma and his patrons, the Gupta brothers, are alleged to have siphoned off tens of billions of rand in inflated or irregular contracts.
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Even as the West targets him and his cronies with sanctions and protests at his aggressions, it therefore needs a counter-narrative for the Russian people.
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The first, "Trumpocracy" by David Frum, devotes long pages to cataloguing alarming, deceitful and plain unseemly acts and statements by Mr Trump, his cronies and enablers.
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Parson and his political cronies are on the wrong side of history, nothing changes right now for patients who need access to abortion at Planned Parenthood.
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However, the army and its cronies have also grown rich from gem and jade mines—and vast tracts of land that many contend were illegally seized.
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Having achieved that remarkable feat, Trump's cronies are now trying to convince the world that the Trump we see before our eyes isn't the real president.
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" Former Likud Defense Minister Moshe Arens wrote in Haaretz that Bibi and his far-right cronies "insulted not only Yaalon, they insulted the I.D.F. [Israeli Army].
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But he remains a hanger on in the Trump circle, one of the cronies the president calls and relies on as a advocates on cable news.
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Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party... it's time to #BoycottInNOut - let Trump and his cronies support these creeps... perhaps animal style!
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Nearly every day, it seems, analysts and reporters reveal new ties between American political figures and Russia or its leader, Vladimir Putin, and his political cronies.
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Trump could use its powers to shut down the Russia investigation, fire Mueller and other top Justice Department personnel, and pardon his cronies with relative ease.
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"This is an effort from Mitch McConnell and his cronies to steal this election from the people of Alabama," Moore said at a press conference Thursday.
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Meanwhile, opposition figures are thrown in prison, media freedom is trampled upon, and food is horded and dished out to party cronies while the people starve.
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His reform proposals appear to be dead in the water: Most Iraqi political parties don't want their cronies in the cabinet replaced with non-partisan technocrats.
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Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his cronies were sure to keep women and people of color out of the room when senators devised their replacement bill.
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This approach works to tighten their grip on power and on their borders, and to deflect attention from how much they and their cronies are stealing.
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Second, once indicted, Mr. Maduro and his cronies can be subject to an Interpol "red notice" that would severely limit their ability to travel outside Venezuela.
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The protesters were calling for more than just the ousting of an errant president and her cronies: They want to create a cleaner and fairer society.
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Tarkanian blamed the GOP leader's "Capitol Hill cronies" and "failures to deliver" for last year's loss of the Alabama Senate seat, which Democrat Doug Jones won.
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"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponize suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," Ingraham announced on Wednesday.
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He and his cronies want judges to become subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, a step that would allow the government to interfere with their verdicts.
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If you did not belong to the networks patronized by Mr. Assad and his cronies, you didn't have much of a future in the country anyway.
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Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party... it's time to #BoycottInNOut - let Trump and his cronies support these creeps... perhaps animal style!
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America's promise of safe haven is largely the same today as it was then, but Trump and his cronies are doing their best to change that.
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The only winners will be those who conclude back-room business deals with the extended Trump clan and their cronies and with the US arms industry.
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In this specific case, U.S. investigators should work with European partners to probe Plahotniuc's role in Moldova's bank meltdown, and hold him and his cronies accountable.
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"Phony Eddie Rispone isn't new to politics — he's been a prolific donor focused on enriching himself and his cronies for decades," Lee said in a statement.
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This is an effort by Mitch McConnell and his cronies to steal this election from the people of Alabama and they will not stand for it!
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Trump has denied collusion, but evidence made public so far points to at least a desire to collude, even if Trump's cronies weren't successful in doing it.
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An easing of economic penalties could potentially further aggrandize the military and its cronies who profit from the junta's prominence in business and politics, Gardner told Reuters.
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Practically everything in Angola costs more because cronies take a cut: Luanda, the capital, was recently ranked as the most expensive city in the world for expats.
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In America they have produced a massive backlash against Mr Putin, and personal sanctions against his cronies and tycoons, regardless of their formal affiliation with the state.
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The individuals affected are a mixed bunch, including figures such as Viktor Vekselberg and Suleiman Kerimov, who are barons of business but hardly Mr Putin's closest cronies.
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" A senior administration official said these restored sanctions are designed to constrict the revenue Iran uses to fund "terrorists, dictators, proxy militias, and the regime's own cronies.
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The law enabling these sanctions, the Magnitsky Act, is named for a Russian whistleblower who died in custody after he claimed Kremlin cronies had cheated the government.
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But Spicer was not a part of the group, which included Trump's daughter, son-in-law, and lower-ranking cronies like his longtime personal bodyguard Keith Schiller.
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Import bans on items including rice and carpets are supposed to protect local businesses, but instead push trade underground and make rich the cronies who win waivers.
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Is the nationalist bombast simply camouflage, to enable the Kremlin and its cronies to continue looting tens of billions of dollars a year from the Russian people?
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Much of the death and violence perpetrated on innocent people in countries like Colombia, Nicaragua, and others was either sponsored or inspired by Castro and his cronies.
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All should do much less subsidising and controlling of production, and much more safeguarding of the market to make sure that cronies do not capture the economy.
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"The aim of our strike is to cause maximum political damage to Putin, his party and his cronies," Mr Navalny told his supporters in another recent broadcast.
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As for the cronies, he said, the government will leave them unpunished and will hope that they wield their economic power for the benefit of the country.
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Choosing from a pool of 20-plus Marvel heroes, you form your own super-team and take on a massive roster of super-villains and their cronies.
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But the idea that the Russian, Chinese and other countries' tax authorities will not share the information with their intelligence services and business cronies is extraordinarily naive.
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Thanks in large part to the damage to the economy wrought by Yanukovych and his cronies, it will take years, perhaps decades, for Ukraine to fully recover.
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It's the latest example of the president and his cronies hiding behind a seemingly hot economy as they dismantle what few safeguards stand between you and oblivion.
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It is time to use our most sacred symbol to help break the hold that the National Rifle Association and its political cronies have on our country.
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ProPublica reported that a trio of random Trump cronies with neither military nor government experience is secretly running the Veterans Affairs Department out of Mar-a-Lago.
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Other patronage measures employed by the Maduro government — such as allowing cronies to strip state companies of assets — have been the subject of investigations by American prosecutors.
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If Trump was able to appoint loyal cronies in these agencies who were willing to mete out vengeance at Trump's behest, his threats could become very powerful.
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In Hungary and Poland, those leaders have steadily embedded networks of cronies, dismantled democratic institutions and promoted what they say are traditional, national values over Western ones.
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It pits a gang of burly American veterans (played by Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and a few others) against a drug lord (Rey Gallegos) and his cronies.
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Ms. DeVos and her cronies in the for-profit industry seem to think that they can plow ahead with these and other damaging proposals regardless of opposition.
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But since the entire political playing field has been tilted by the never-named president and his cronies, it's hard to imagine the game going Chuck's way.
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The new government wanted to get back the money siphoned off by Mr Yanukovych and his cronies, and enlisted the help of international authorities to that end.
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And she also had famous, taste-making cronies: her friendships with figures like the architect and decorator Renzo Mongiardino and the writer Truman Capote were well known.
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He does not feel bound by law: Mr. Putin and his cronies use political power to enrich themselves and business wealth to guarantee their hold on power.
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But some of his cronies must go, including Mr. Rivas, head of the electoral commission, and the chief of the police, who authorized the crackdown on protesters.
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"In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, a senior NRDC attorney, said in a statement.
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He ruled the Philippines for 20 years, during which time he, his family and cronies amassed an estimated $10 billion in ill-gotten wealth, a commission found.
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Sorry, Mr. Brooks; I am going to continue to follow what you and your political cronies are doing to Americans, and to resist you at every turn.
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One of my favorite activities as a boy was to eavesdrop on my Dad and his cronies while they were drinking beer and playing penny-ante poker.
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Shiite cleric has criticized government Al-Sadr has called for a government made up of technocrats, rather than political cronies, and for corrupt politicians to be held accountable.
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Under pressure from government cronies, most news outlets pretended that two of the main candidates, Selahattin Demirtas of the HDP and Meral Aksener of Iyi, did not exist.
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To hear someone who supposedly represents a brighter future guided by science and innovation go to bat for Trump and his cronies is disconcerting to say the least.
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He&aposs obsessed because I was the one responsible for getting the Magnitsky Act passed in 22.0, which sanctions Putin and his corrupt cronies for human rights violations.
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It says a lot that Lil Wayne and his cronies could take credit for a style of rap so completely that it became associated with this one song.
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"That President Trump would even consider handing over a former U.S. ambassador to Putin and his cronies for interrogation is bewildering," Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday.
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In reality, the Georgian and Russian people have more in common now than ever before: Both of their countries are occupied by Vladimir Putin and his corrupt cronies.
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Henry and his two cronies, Belch Huggins (Jake Sim) and Victor Criss (Logan Thompson), have chased Mike to a creekside, where they've pinned his face against the rocks.
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She sacked him with a flea in his ear about promising more than he delivered, and followed up by sacking almost all the rest of Mr Cameron's cronies.
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With a bulletproof suit made from indestructible metal, T'Challa transforms into his superhero persona, the Black Panther, to keep Killmonger and his cronies from waging all-out war.
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They can stay and do their best to undermine him where they can, or quit and potentially let Trump staff the White House with cronies and yes men.
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Cottonmouth's cronies eventually catch up with Shameek (Dante ratted him out before his death) and convince him to meet with Cottonmouth about the money he and Chico stole.
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Alongside well-known cronies and old friends of Mr Putin are fairly neutral executives, Russian citizens who operate mostly abroad and magnates who have clashed with the Kremlin.
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It's unclear why Tim Cook and his cronies aren't waiting until iPhone day to begin the iPhone 5's slow death, but there are some hardware limitations involved.
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The taxman's job is made harder by the fact that businesses owned by leading politicians and their cronies seem to pay no tax at all in many countries.
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We see it in a corrupted American political system that answers to cronies with clout and routinely ignores the will of the people on issues like gun responsibility.
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Depending on how CAATSA is implemented, this could make some of Mr Putin's closest allies and cronies as toxic as other SDNs in Hizbullah, Iran or North Korea.
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A tradition of "deploying" party loyalists to run state-owned firms transmogrified, under Mr Zuma, into a habit of planting cronies into positions that enabled them to steal.
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By cutting Mr Putin's cronies off from global markets, sanctions "inadvertently made them more dependent on the Kremlin", argues Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment, a think-tank.
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The little girl (Millie Bobby Brown) that Modine and his cronies are pursuing — with prejudice — is shaping up to be another of the central mysteries in Stranger Things.
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The fact that more anti-competitive cases aren't brought against such technology companies suggests that cronies have managed to convince government about the merits of this false distinction.
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Most Burmese companies are banned from forming partnerships with Western entrepreneurs, because they remain subject to sanctions imposed by the American government, designed to punish the army's cronies.
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Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party... it’s time to #BoycottInNOut - let Trump and his cronies support these creeps... perhaps animal style!
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Banks in Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, and Taiwan failed, in part, because bank executives and board members kept lending money to themselves and to their cronies.
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Lumkile Mondi, of the University of the Witwatersrand, sees the attacks on Mr Matjila as part of a broader effort to "put cronies into institutions for private purposes".
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Further undermining competitive markets and pouring billions in subsidies to cronies is a surefire way to harm all energy customers, stifle innovation and promote energy dependence on handouts.
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Just as his business career was characterized by Mob-connected cronies, racial bias, aggrieved contractors, dubious partners, byzantine lawsuits, and tabloid sensation, his Presidency dispenses with ethical pretense.
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Kirchner were engaged in a criminal conspiracy involving "cronies" like Mr. Báez who in return for business favors from the government channeled funds to the presidential family. Mrs.
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"Recently we have seen VA political cronies work actively and publicly to undermine a secretary and a deputy secretary who were unanimously confirmed by the Senate," Tester said.
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The document, however, was widely derided for being merely a laundry list of wealthy Russians and Kremlin cronies rather than a targeted list of Putin's most critical relationships.
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He and allies of his political party, Fidesz, control nearly all of Hungary's media; he manipulates the state's economic powers to weaken potential rivals and empower his cronies.
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Without a strong party, Putin's eventual death or retirement is significantly more likely to kick off factional infighting between Putin's cronies and unrest among the greater Russian public.
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The documents, which appear to be authentic, include detailed financial records and emails between Mr. Putin's Kremlin office and a number of his Russian cronies and Swiss banks.
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And as he threw Trump and seemingly all his corrupt cronies under the bus, it became clear that his testimony might be the most effective of them all.
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The paper revealed that Jeanne LaMarr knew how to defend herself: she once knocked out a bandit who tried to hold her up and scared off his cronies.
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Katherine, Eddie, and Paul aim to steal the Blue Iguana, a rare blue diamond that also has captured the attention of a career criminal and his mulleted cronies.
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Janet Reitman's article only confirms my darkest suspicions two Novembers ago that the current president and his cronies are promoting conditions that could precipitate race and class wars.
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Logan will have to weigh which one of his children or loyal cronies is expendable, even as some suggest that it's his head that may have to roll.
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The tweets also appeared divorced from the administration's policies on Russia, where the United States is expelling diplomats and imposing sanctions on cronies of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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Unable to borrow, Maduro would see his finances crippled and be unable to continue paying off the cronies he relies on to prop up his regime in Caracas.
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In South Korea, Ms. Park was seen as conspiring with cronies in the vast corporate conglomerates, known as chaebol, that wield disproportionate power and have histories of corruption.
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Much of the firm's operating budget was diverted into programs for Mr. Chávez's political base, payoffs for government cronies and subsidies to keep his promise of affordable food.
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The opposition were uncharacteristically united in city elections, and Mr Orban's cronies do not completely dominate the media in the capital, unlike in the rest of the country.
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We cannot allow a handful of people, drunk on their former power, to make the accusations of a former KGB colonel and his cronies appear to be true.
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At the height of his powers, he boasted a clientele that ranged from Central African dictators and their cronies, to warlords ransacking Libya, to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Like many strongmen, Mr. Bouteflika has been careful not to groom a successor, and his cronies have ejected anyone who appeared to be making a play for power.
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And after political opponents took control of the National Assembly in December 15, he tried to dissolve it while placing his cronies in the Supreme Court and elsewhere.
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Of course, he still vows to keep fighting for Trump's ouster from the White House ... and to rep Stormy Daniels "and others against Donald Trump and his cronies."
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Once the supernatural threat was eliminated, the Lannister queen and her rather one-note set of cronies in King's Landing became Game of Thrones' apparent final set of antagonists.
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And in recent weeks there has been an escalating series of stories about self-dealing, money flowing to cronies, and high-stakes policy decisions impossibly tangled with personal wealth.
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This system, which he calls a "limited-access order", relies on the ability of the elites to control rents, be it from land, raw materials or jobs for cronies.
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WHEN Jacob Zuma's lawyers raced to court recently to stop the release of a report finding evidence of "state capture" by the president's wealthy cronies, the cameras were waiting.
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There are 40 skins in all, covering all the major characters you can think of: Mario and Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, Bowser and all seven of his Koopaling cronies.
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Because from everything we now know there is one justice system for the Clintons, the left, liberals and all their cronies and another one for everyone else in America.
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Too often, says Shashi Shekhar, a former senior water official, state governments and their business cronies are more interested in constructing treatment plants than ensuring their long-term use.
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Max is on the hunt—but an in-full-swing party, organized by Victoria's Vortex cronies, is pumping away at the school swimming pool, making reconnaissance not so simple.
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The president, Enrique Peña Nieto, is desperate to avoid unflattering comparisons to 22016, when the government of the day was excoriated for allowing aid to be funnelled to cronies.
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Mr Tshisekedi, by contrast, is thought less likely to shake things up, or to ask awkward questions about Mr Kabila's business empire and the dazzling wealth of his cronies.
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We saw the Night King and his cronies gathered around Craster's baby, and watched as that baby's eyes turned a familiar shade of blue under the Night King's touch.
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And despite Coolidge rousting many of the crooked cronies who had gathered themselves to feast on the spoils of the dissolute Harding's presidency, Republicans were quite pleased with Coolidge.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Obsessed and outraged" are the words I used to describe Philip Guston's reaction to the administration of President Richard Nixon and his cronies.
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"We simply cannot allow the kind of rank corruption Hillary Clinton and her cronies traffic in to take root in our nation's highest office," Priebus said in his statement.
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The hopes raised by the Arab spring—for more inclusive politics and more responsive government, for more jobs and fewer presidential cronies carving up the economy—have been dashed.
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Meanwhile, stricter rules have been written into a bill going through parliament to ensure that judges cannot favour their cronies when deciding who should administer the mafias' seized assets.
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When you staff the security services and Cabinet with cronies and grant economic favors to companies based on their political loyalties, your government tends not to work very well.
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His cronies — Victor and Belch, who appear in the film but who aren't with him when he goes after the kids at the end — are the ones that die.
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Stitching together cheery oral testimonies and frustratingly fuzzy archive material, Ms. Osmond counters the sparseness of visual record with brisk re-enactments and a Welsh chorus of quipping cronies.
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After Xi took office as China's president in 2012, he spent years battling the so-called "Shanghai Clique," made up of the former President Jiang Zemin and his cronies.
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Since Mr Buhari came to power in May 2015, dozens of public officials and their cronies have been arrested by a beefed-up Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
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"We will be holding hearings on the mysteries swirling around Trump's bizarre relationship with Putin and his cronies, and how those dark dealings affect our national security," Engel said.
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Now journalism amplifies the Trump clangor and too often drowns out the reporting on what Trump and his cronies have actually done—and what they're doing to the country.
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The president and his cronies are falsely claiming this plan will create jobs, but the Department of Energy's annual U.S. Energy Employment report for 2900 tells a different story.
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They argue that the team investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin is filled with Democrats and Clinton cronies, despite Mueller's well-known reputation as a Republican.
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As the corruption scandal that deposed former President Otto Pérez Molina and his cronies last September shows, Mr. Lima was not alone in using government connections for criminal activities.
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When he came back, the boss and one of his cronies dragged him out of the kitchen and beat him like a dog in front of all the customers.
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That shows why nothing enrages the Kremlin more than attempts to highlight the stolen wealth of Vladimir Putin and his cronies, as the Hudson Institute found out last year.
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The compound, including a pier for the yacht, was built in an ostensibly protected forest much beloved by Mr. Putin and his cronies, according to the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
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Bush expanded on his father's legacy, not only censoring climate scientists and skirting the topic in public, but hiring fossil fuel cronies to shape policy decisions across his administrations.
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The administration needs to enforce sanctions Congress has already passed and press NATO to do more, perhaps banning travel by Putin cronies and enacting other restrictions on business activities.
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In the 2000s, Egypt's ruler at the time, Hosni Mubarak, frittered away export earnings from an earlier gas boom on energy subsidies while doling out lucrative contracts to cronies.
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His tactical shift was particularly evident at an event at a Manhattan hospital last month, when he railed against "Trump and his cronies" for undermining the health care system.
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" Moreover, the cheesy "boardroom" of "The Apprentice" would ultimately become "a direct blueprint for Trump's administration, a dogpile of competitors, cronies and relatives throttling one another daily for survival.
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President Donald Trump was allegedly caught on tape talking about then–US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, telling his cronies to "take her out" and "get rid" of her.
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"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponized suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," Ingraham said during her Wednesday night program.
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"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponized suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," she said during her Wednesday night program.
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Again, instead of investing in diversifying the economy and strengthening the country's oil infrastructure, the billions borrowed mostly ended up in the pockets of government officials and their cronies.
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It's not enough to bankrupt Whiterose and her Deus Group cronies: Price wants her top-secret project, some sort of huge machine being shipped to the Chinese Congo, destroyed.
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Mr. Bharara was a proactive, straight-arrow prosecutor who would not have hesitated to investigate and prosecute Mr. Trump and any of his shady cronies if criminal behavior surfaced.
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McConnell and his cronies have crammed the Senate schedule full of confirmation hearings for Trump's selections for major cabinet officials, including several of the biggest positions for this Wednesday.
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He called for the immediate removal of Zuma and his "cronies" and rejected any kind of compromise deal that would allow Zuma to step aside peacefully and avoid prosecution.
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"Hacks and cronies are out in favor of professional military men," said Madden, adding that such competitions could distinguish genuine officers from those who rose through corruption and patronage.
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The U.S. is to be commended for its ongoing attempts to tighten the screws on Maduro and his cronies, but the mostly unilateral American efforts are unlikely to succeed.
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He seized the oil sector, which you only do if you can run it honestly and efficiently; instead, he turned it over to corrupt cronies, who degraded its performance.
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Amid the possible motives for Russian interference in the American election of 2016 was President Vladimir Putin's eagerness to gain relief from United States sanctions — especially for his cronies.
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Democrats probably cannot stop Steve Mnuchin from being installed at Treasury any more than they can stop other key regulatory posts from being filled by cronies and industry insiders.
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Farage's cronies hadn't yet boot-stomped everything but Carling and Newcastle Brown in my local corner-shop, so I piled in and treated myself to can of Poland's finest, Tyskie.
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It turns out we are now nine months from where we left off with the pope and his cronies sitting in the stigmata-having shepherd's kitchen, lit menacingly by candlelight.
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Regardless of the process, or the criminal investigation, or the protests, or the opposition from lawmakers—including fellow Republicans—Pai and his cronies were always going to ignore the public.
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"Over and over again, you see this pattern of populist leaders, often democratically elected, who use the power of office to enrich themselves, their families and their cronies," Stephenson said.
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"That President Trump would even consider handing over a former U.S. Ambassador to Putin and his cronies for interrogation is bewildering," Schumer said in a statement Thursday before the vote.
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The almost-free petrol is almost never available to ordinary Venezuelans, since regime cronies tend to grab it and sell it on the black market at a colossal mark-up.
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Money poured into construction contracts for cronies and vanity projects like a bridge over the Bosphorus, a vast airport in Istanbul and Mr Erdogan's 1,100-room, $615m palace in Ankara.
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He had forced the sale of independent newspapers to his cronies, installed his second-rate son-in-law as finance minister and debauched the currency, tipping the country into recession.
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Hillary Clinton and her team went to Russia to shake down the trees with Vladimir Putin&aposs cronies to get information and they&aposre getting away with calling opposition research.
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Worse yet, they also hamstring or corrupt the legal and regulatory system, and many strip-mine whatever government safety nets may exist in favor of further enriching their kleptocratic cronies.
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Russia is widely thought of as an oligarchy run by President Vladimir Putin and a handful of billionaire cronies whose main accomplishment is looking out for their own financial interests.
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It was Page and other Trump advisers who gave fawning speeches about Russia and criticized longstanding, bipartisan U.S. foreign policy, all while trying to impress Putin's band of billionaire cronies.
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The big problem with politicians like Barack Obama and Marco Rubio, from Trump's perspective, is that they lie for the wrong reasons: to line their pockets and help their cronies.
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He told me how several of his colleagues had suddenly gone missing for what he assumed was no reason other than falling out of favor with Assad and his cronies.
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Fidesz, Mr Orban's party, pioneered Europe's illiberal wave: when it came to power in 2010 it limited the constitutional court's powers, packed it with cronies and introduced a new constitution.
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The government has cracked down on corruption, which had flourished under the previous president, Goodluck Jonathan, an ineffectual buffoon who let politicians and their cronies fill their pockets with impunity.
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Instead of using occupational licensing rules to protect their cronies from competition, lawmakers should reform and remove these unfair and unnecessary rules, giving everyone a shot to succeed in life.
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But opposition parties say the funds should have been part of the state budget, and that the foundations are run by government cronies close to Mr Orban's ruling party, Fidesz.
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We need renewed optimism that our economy is not one where just the cronies and special interests get ahead, but that everyone has an equal shot at the American Dream.
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All 28503 states and D.C. have licensing laws, which require aspiring workers and entrepreneurs to get permission from government bureaucrats and their corporate cronies before they can earn a living.
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Hicks might have been among the more moderate wing of Trump's attendants, but she never had the power to stop the president from seeking advice from his more deranged cronies.
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Likewise, Kim Jong Un will neither disarm nor reform the national economy even as he allows his family and cronies the benefits of quasi-capitalism in the showcase capital city.
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The impact of United States sanctions will be limited as long as Mr. Maduro and his cronies have access to loans in Beijing, arms in Moscow and holidays in Madrid.
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The United States government and a coalition made up of Venezuela's neighbors have been right to raise the cost for Mr. Maduro and his cronies to continue business as usual.
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In the final scene, John Moore lies paralyzed in a brothel as some kind of drug or poison takes hold, at the mercy of Captain Connor and his gangster cronies.
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His cronies and apologists include such allegorical types as Reverend Salvation and Editor Daily, whom 1937 audiences would have recognized as cartoon versions of Billy Sunday and William Randolph Hearst.
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Finally, the governor and his cronies turned Bermuda into a slave labor camp, and after nine months, under the threat of guns, the castaways were forced to embark for Virginia.
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In his basic stump speech, Mr. Navalny hammers away at how little ordinary Russians benefit from the vast oil and gas revenues that flow to the Kremlin and its cronies.
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He put his face on bank notes, ordered his portrait hung in offices and shops, enriched his family and tribal cronies and, as investigations showed, stashed billions in overseas banks.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban has converted Hungary's democracy into a one-party state, doling out favors to cronies and using his powers to punish all those who dare to dissent.
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In the episode about female sexuality, we thought Paltrow and her Goop cronies might tell women they need to buy stuff to make their vaginas sexier, better-smelling, even cleaner.
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Mami Lestari, 38, a niece of Suharto's who lives in Kemusuk, said that despite the excesses of some of her uncle's cronies, he always stood up for the little people.
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Just in the past week, both Canada and Brazil, formerly attentive to Caracas' humanitarian needs, withdrew top diplomatic officials in response to antagonistic claims made by Maduro and his cronies.
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In rebuilding the country, she must overcome decades of mismanagement and profiteering by previous military governments that enriched the generals and their cronies and brought the economy to its knees.
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Both deals, which were ultimately unsuccessful, involved the use of murky offshore companies and were tainted by allegations that cronies of Mr. Yanukovych's schemed to funnel assets out of Ukraine.
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In April congress passed reforms to end the practice of paying phantom teachers and health-care workers and to prevent union bosses and politicians from giving jobs to their cronies.
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Mickey Mouse and his cronies at Disneyland are picking favorites within the park's exclusive Club 33, which cost 2 members access to the group ... this according to a new lawsuit.
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The effort by executive branch to stymie the whistleblower complaint speaks to the disrespect Trump and his cronies have shown to the intelligence community from the start of his presidency.
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So if you look at, say, Putin and his cronies who are hiding money in shell companies, some of those people might actually be worried that Putin might turn on them.
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And because Putin and all of his cronies have so much money that they&aposve stolen in Russia that they keep in the west, they really hate that more than anything.
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All of this adds up to bad news for the GOP, and encouraging signs for people who want to see Democrats running investigative committees and making life miserable for Trump cronies.
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What is clear is that, despite their efforts, President Nicolás Maduro and his cronies can no longer ignore the desire of the vast majority of Venezuelans for political and economic change.
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) reckons that "many hundreds of billions of pounds" of international money is rinsed through British banks each year, much of it from kleptocrats and their cronies.
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Josh Herdman, who played one of Draco Malfoy's cowardly cronies in the Harry Potter series, is trading his wand for his fists as he pursues a new career: amateur cage fighter.
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MACCALLUM: They&aposve worked to eliminate the Magnitsky Act in order to release a lot of Kremlin cronies and friends who don&apost like the sanctions that came along with it.
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And bosses at state-owned banks, where most of the problems lie, feared even sensible agreements to lower an ailing company's debt burdens could be painted as cosying up to cronies.
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Harris has already built a name for herself as a fierce public speaker in the Senate, where she's gone viral for taking Trump cronies to task in an inimitably incisive fashion.
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The whole sorry spectacle shows that Trump's campaign is riven by internal rivalries and that the cronies he's surrounded himself with (and put on his vice-presidential shortlist) are ranting fools.
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Additionally, Comey's inexcusable conduct lead to vile, malicious and false leaks coming from the FBI and echoed by Trump and his cronies, that were aimed to further tarnish Hillary Clinton's image.
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"In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
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When it was first approved, Cincinnati was controlled by a political machine run by George "Boss" Cox, a former saloon owner, and his unscrupulous cronies (mostly bartenders) on the city council.
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In countries like Putin's Russia, where one ruler controls, the law does not establish just standards but instead authorizes the ruler to punish adversaries and to empower and enrich his cronies.
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In elevating his 52-year old wife, political novice Grace Mugabe, over his standing Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe went too far even for his political cronies in the ZANU-PF.
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President Nicolás Maduro created a new constituent assembly filled with his cronies, usurping many of the powers of the National Assembly, which was properly elected and is controlled by the opposition.
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The president likes to use the iPhone because it contains his contact list and also allows him to reach out to cronies that his staff might not want him talking to.
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Meanwhile, Kabila and his cronies have benefited from Congo's vast natural resources, including the highly lucrative mining of coltan, cobalt and other rare minerals that power electronic devices the world over.
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He must not repeat his first mistake: having a celebratory dinner in a chic Paris bistro with rich cronies (while Le Pen went to a rally in a depressed industrial town).
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Felix Sater, one of the leading Trump cronies spearheading the deal, devised a scheme to give the building's penthouse, valued at $50 million, as a present to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Josh Herdman, who played one of Draco Malfoy's cowardly cronies in Harry Potter is trading his wand for his fists as he pursues a new career as an amateur cage fighter.
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Of late, he appears to be trying to normalize pardons along with discrediting Mueller's probe politically — both of which could help him get away with pardoning his cronies down the road.
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He's saying that you, the viewer, aren't rich and he, Dusty Rhodes, isn't rich, and that this is a bond between you, by definition in opposition to Flair and his cronies.
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However, the latest U.S. sanctions on PDVSA mean it will be harder for his government to buy food, gasoline and medicine, or provide privileged access to dollars for cronies and backers.
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"That President Trump would even consider handing over a former U.S. ambassador to Putin and his cronies for interrogation is bewildering," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
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"This is embarrassing even for an administration already flooded with cronies and incompetent staff, and the White House should withdraw Moore's nomination immediately," said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for American Bridge.
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Although there is not, yet, much to show for it, their credibility — and Mr. Ramaphosa's own — rests on their ability to investigate and prosecute Mr. Zuma, his cronies and their enablers.
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"Talks between Russia and Maduro's cronies are only useful if they are discussing retirement beaches for Maduro," he wrote last week of Russian efforts to broker a solution to the crisis.
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A couple of years later, he had the IRS audit the tax returns of the editor of Newsday in retaliation for a series of investigative reports into one of Nixon's cronies.
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To be sure, a deregulatory agenda in the hands of Mr. Trump and Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, is likely to be deployed as a mechanism for delivering favors for cronies.
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His gritty yet soaring dispatches about cops, immigrants and crooked City Hall cronies earned him a reputation as a tabloid poet, long before the word "tabloid" was synonymous with celebrity fluff.
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With the examples of Hong Kong and Istanbul perhaps on their minds, Mr. Putin and his cronies surely remember how, 30 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev experimented with a limited free election.
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In honor of #TaxDay, here's just a few of the things Trump and his cronies are spending your money on: Gallego first went after Trump's time spent on the golf course.
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In the wake of the 1960s fight for political and cultural equality, President Richard Nixon and his cronies employed the infamous Southern strategy, preying on the racist fears of white voters.
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The problem has always been that despite Trump and his cronies repeatedly and flagrantly committing all sorts of crimes and violations, he easily wriggles his way out of trouble each time.
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"It makes me shudder that Park Geun-hye and her cronies tried to tame artists by holding back a pittance of government support while they themselves pocket millions," Mr. Hong said.
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In April, the unrest forced veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down, as the military and its allies purged his cronies in an anti-corruption drive while pushing for new elections.
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"Congressional Republicans' determination to cover up for the President and his criminal cronies betrays their oath of office and undermines their duty to the American people," she said in a statement.
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Instead, you need to fire people at key pressure points and replace them with cronies, or weaken the institution's formal abilities to the point where it can't really provide effective oversight.
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He wants Trump to trade sanctions and including lobbying Europe to get rid of its sanctions on many of his cronies, in particular, who have been squeezed, in return for these things.
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Nearly a decade after Mad Men first aired, series creator Matthew Weiner is back at it again and tapping the actors from his old AMC cronies for his latest show, The Romanoffs.
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The U.S. stock exchanges, unlike big counterparts in London and Hong Kong, provide few restrictions on companies wanting to treat some investors differently than others, namely their founders and venture-capital cronies.
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That will be true even if the Democrats win control of Congress and longtime Clinton cronies Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer become Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader, respectively.
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He expropriated thousands of businesses, established byzantine controls on consumer prices and foreign exchange, let cronies loot the public purse and turned PDVSA, once a cash cow, into a make-work scheme.
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President Trump never properly divested himself from his business interests and has stocked the White House with family members and cronies who stand to benefit personally from their connection with the government.
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Maybe Trump will appoint cronies to run the Fed and they'll discover that there really is a lot of room for low interest rates to boost the economy without sparking high inflation.
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From a scientist who makes it rain meatballs to a gothic hotel run by Dracula and his macabre cronies, Pete Oswald's fingerprints are all over the cutting edge of animated feature films.
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Zuma has ducked and dived this week at the inquiry, which is testing allegations that he allowed cronies to plunder state resources and influence senior appointments during his nine years in power.
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First, despite winning an election and being elevated to the position of the most powerful man in the world, Trump remains deeply insecure, constantly searching for validation from his coterie of cronies.
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Trump and his cronies have struggled to figure out their messaging on the Russia story—they've been all over the place, while effectively conceding that the basic facts being reported are true.
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PiS members have called the Tribunal "a crew of cronies defending the status quo" that will only try to stop the government from undertaking the changes for which the Polish people voted.
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"It's a feeble attempt by Ed Cox and his cronies to distract from their corruption issues and uncomfortable questions about their support for Donald Trump," a spokesman, Richard Azzopardi, said on Sunday.
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"How much fun is it, watching the U.S. trying to deal with a President whose cronies are guilty of crimes—involving him—while he still holds office?" a South African tweeted recently.
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Korniyets, the chauffeur-turned-prosecutor, was implicated in the summer of 2015, when a Ukrainian businessman told the new inspector general that he was "being shaken down" by Shokin's cronies, Kent explained.
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Though Bronson has worked as a cook, and is familiar with the nuances and language of haute cuisine, he and his cronies refuse to acknowledge a chasm between high and low fare.
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One night, I was standing outside the Yangtze, waiting for the boss and his cronies to pay their prostitutes and finally go home, so I could close up and go to bed.
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When he learns that Tony — now highly placed in the Canadian government — and his cronies will be visiting the prison to evaluate Felix's program, he decides to stage The Tempest for them.
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The penalties need to go further, subjecting Mr. Putin's wealthy cronies and their families to sanctions like travel bans and asset freezes that would put even more pressure on the Russian leader.
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Liddy's life after prison, however, can give us insight into the future of the Trump cronies who may have an orange jumpsuit—or at least, a very public humiliation—rushing toward them.
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The corruption commission he unveiled on the eve of his purge should be a regulator, upholding international standards of corporate governance, not his personal star chamber skewing the rules for his cronies.
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When it comes to policies that affect workers, Trump has created a team of cronies: Almost every important position has gone to a lobbyist or someone with strong financial connections to industry.
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Vinnie stresses over the depth of his commitment to Rudy and his gangster cronies, and Frankie is still a devil-may-care pleasure seeker, stealing mob money to pay off mob debts.
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For the country's scandal-ridden government, it is an opportunity to spend aid money on favored projects in the capital and import luxury vehicles that can be sold later to wealthy cronies.
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Administration officials appear to think they can fix America's infrastructure by giving developers tax incentives, moving some money around and eliminating environmental regulations, a favorite target for Mr. Trump and his cronies.
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When bad things happen, there are only three things he knows how to do: insist that things are great and his policies are perfect, cut taxes, and throw money at his cronies.
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Last week it was reported that Mueller hired more than a dozen lawyers for his team, but as soon as he did, they came under attack by Trump cronies like Newt Gingrich.
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The Justice Department reversal that triggered the remarkable resignations of four top prosecutors in the case could fuel an impression that cronies of the President can commit crimes and get special treatment.
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"While today's decision sends an important signal to Moscow, the only way to ensure Putin and his cronies feel the consequences of their brazen actions is by punishing them financially," Arizona Sen.
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Marketed on the internet as a modern venture open to outside investment, Technopark appears to be in the flesh a closed, secretive enterprise run by cronies of the Transnistrian and Russian states.
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"Some members of this Council continue to shield Maduro and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the Venezuelan people," responded Elliott Abrams, US special envoy on Venezuela, before the Security Council.
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And yet, even after he imprisoned thousands of people he viewed as opponents, ensured his cronies would control most of the media, and suppressed dissent, Mr. Erdogan faced his toughest electoral struggle.
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"No amount of New Jersey bullying and false attacks by Chris Christie's cronies will hide Christie's own failures of credit downgrades and budget deficits," said Chris Schrimpf, a spokesperson for the Kasich campaign.
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As a dictator in the 1970s and '80s, Marcos, his family and cronies amassed an estimated $10 billion in ill-gotten wealth and thousands of suspected communist rebels and political foes were killed.
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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Later this month the government will outline its budget for 2019; investors and the IMF will be watching to see if there is any sign of change from Mr Lungu and his cronies.
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Jason Sharman, professor of international relations at Cambridge University, is particularly interested in "grand corruption": the theft of national wealth by kleptocratic leaders and their cronies, often in poor (albeit resource-rich) countries.
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Since taking over in February 2018 Mr Ramaphosa has replaced cronies of Mr Zuma with new, clean leaders at institutions such as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the South African Revenue Service.
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But have you heard the one about how the CIA and South Korea's intelligence agency paid a "lumberjack" $20,000 to kill Kim Jong Un and his cronies with "radioactive" and "nano poisonous" substances?
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While at a lower level, regime cronies and corrupt law enforcement agencies serve as local arms dealers, and soldiers supplement their wages through the sale of all sorts of weaponry and military materiel.
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Gardner said he was concerned an easing of sanctions done without "adequate filtering or monitoring," could further enrich the military and cronies who profited from a close relationship with the former military junta.
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"With only a few exceptions, the individuals that President-Elect Trump has appointed is the greatest collection of stooges and cronies and misfits we have ever seen in a presidential administration," said Rep.
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The President also allows selected aides and cronies -- including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault, and communications aide Hope Hicks -- to walk into the Oval Office whenever they choose.
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These sanctions have not only put economic pressure on Russia, but stand as a symbolic gesture that the world does not accept the imperialistic behavior of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies.
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Trump, despite his nod to old-world values with his odd fixation on Ivy League credentials, has merely replaced the establishment with a bunch of his family members and cronies, with predictable results.
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But the announcement was moved up two days because Trump and his cronies had screwed up practically everything there was to screw up in the first week and a half of his presidency.
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But thanks to career public servants who reported the facts and made it far more difficult for Perry's cronies to manipulate or hide them, these destructive ideas didn't make it into the report.
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"There is a battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, and Steny Hoyer and his corporate cronies already lost," PCCC co-founder Stephanie Taylor said in a statement last week.
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And given the concentration of Russian oligarchic families in London and their attachment to that city, the UK in particular possesses the power to undercut the critical relationship between Putin and his cronies.
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Ms. Aldana said that at least 70 people in the country's political and business elites have been implicated in money-laundering and bribery schemes that bankrolled Mr. Pérez Molina's party and his cronies.
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Even if rule of law is only weakened in a few sectors, this eventually catches up with central bankers, who come to act less as independent stewards than as loyal, or fearful, cronies.
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"Cronies have no place left to put their belongings, but people have nothing to eat," chanted the performers, mostly young women dressed in matching white shirts and black longyis, a sarong-like garment.
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Tangible examples of decisions that are having a negative impact — and could have been avoided if the boss's views weren't skewed by a small pack of cronies — are very much the company's problem.
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Along with a group of Mubarak cronies in business and in the ruling party, they came to symbolize the self-dealing and corruption that were hallmarks of their father's three decades in power.
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A list that damaged the reputation of private business would abet those who favor state-owned enterprise, much of which is run by Kremlin cronies and is prone to corruption and poor productivity.
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The public is inclined to support the special prosecutor if he aggressively investigates the president and his cronies for illegal collusion with the Russians and an attempt to obstruct justice in the case.
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Apart from the practice of favouring allies with government contracts, politicians have a habit of replacing officials across the government machinery with their own cronies every time there is a transfer of power.
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After nearly two decades of investigations, he was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence in 2011 for channelling public money into phantom jobs for political cronies as mayor from 1977 to 1995.
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" He also sent a personal message to Sharpton, with whom he's been beefing for years -- "PS - Hey Al Sharpton, you or your cronies will never beat me you tax evading, race baiting clown!
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As anyone who has seen "The Godfather: Part Two" roughly knows, Batista gathered his cronies for a New Year's Eve party, then declared that he was going to slink off in the night.
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Given that the real discussions over policy tend to take place behind closed doors and within a very small circle of Putin's closest cronies, it also means they rarely get careful and professional examination.
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From the war on climate change to the slow undoing of the Affordable Care Act, we've rounded up the things our dear leader and his cronies fucked up in science and technology this week.
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The usual red tape and reporting required by these things relegates them to cronies and back room deals and most "job-building" announcements are aimed at making politicians look good rather than innovators stronger.
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She also knows that her cronies in the Obama administration pushed the fake dossier through official intelligence, diplomatic and law enforcement channels because a President Hillary Clinton would have rewarded the swamp creatures handsomely.
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The film, narrated by Navalny, shows yachts, palatial compounds, and a 17th century Tuscan villa that are all allegedly controlled by Medvedev thanks to a complex web of cronies, charitable funds, and offshore companies.
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"Real change and reform really means also decreasing the leverage for stealing, for plundering, pillaging Ukrainian wealth and for the cronies of the president and the others to basically increase their wealth," he said.
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Auditors in the court described the debt-laden distribution companies as "closets for hanging political cronies" in nominal positions that bloated the state-owned enterprises with personnel costs, hindering the sale of the assets.
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Still, unlike the sanctions on Iran, those on North Korea remain focused on hobbling the nuclear programme and denying luxury goods to Mr Kim and his cronies, rather than on damaging the general economy.
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President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia have already clamped down on the media for shining an unwelcome light on the shady financial dealings of their cronies and family members.
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In exchange for loyalty, these cronies are allowed to prosper and gain entrée in the West, all bankrolled by the blood money of graft, autocracy and aggression from Idlib to Salisbury to the Donbas.
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In Andalusia, the main stronghold of the Socialists, two former Socialist regional leaders have been indicted on charges they helped divert funds to relatives and party cronies that were intended to help the unemployed.
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Tensions had been building for years, over Ortega's tenacious hold on power, his occasionally arbitrary decrees, and a widespread sense that his family and a few cronies had enriched themselves at the country's expense.
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Among them, four super-rich cronies—including Orban's son-in-law—won 5 percent of public procurement contracts between 2010 and 2016 to the tune of more than $2 billion, according to one study.
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These owners give the impression of looking first to cronies, interlopers and their entourage of 'yes' men, often to the detriment of the resident footballing community on which their clubs have so long relied.
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"Many of you have recognized that this is an effort by Mitch McConnell and his cronies to steal this election from the people of Alabama, and they will not stand for it," Moore said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo in sharp and personal terms on Tuesday, questioning his standing as a "real Democrat," accusing him of being beholden to corporate donors and linking him and his "cronies" to Albany corruption.
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"Many of you have recognized that this is an effort by Mitch McConnell and his cronies to steal this election from the people of Alabama, and they will not stand for it," he said.
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Abraham Lincoln may have led a team of rivals; Donald Trump seems to be assembling a team of cronies, choosing billionaires with obvious, deep conflicts of interest for many key positions in his administration.
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In a series of interviews and testimonies Donald Trump and his cronies have granted in the last several days, they have demonstrated repeatedly how destabilizing, unpredictable and indeed unhinged the incoming administration may be.
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In fact, whether the president and his cronies' actions violate each element of the bribery statute, in a way that is provable beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, is a distraction.
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In the blink of an eye, millions of hectares of land and hundreds of food companies have been transferred to the government, with profits (if any remained) lining the pockets of the regime's cronies.
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But the thing is, I want to know what is up with every other rotten thing the president and his cronies have done more than I want him to be impeached by the House.
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Critics and opponents of Mr. Putin and his Kremlin cronies have been assassinated in a variety of ways over the years, often in spectacular fashion so as to send a message, Kremlin watchers say.
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"With this decision [to arm Ukraine], the Trump administration is reminding Vladimir Putin and his cronies that they lost the Cold War, and we won't tolerate their bullying of our friend Ukraine," Said Sen.
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" And Morrison's personal loyalties may lie less with Trump and more with Bolton, who brought him in and reportedly described what Giuliani and his cronies were trying to accomplish in Ukraine as a "drug deal.
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This has energised opposition to the corrupt entourage of Catalan nationalist cronies, in power since 228, and resulted in an extremely lively and enthusiastic civil movement that favours continuing links with the rest of Spain.
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They're integral to the action because it's primarily in texts from the mysterious "A" (and dozens of "A" cronies) that the girls are told where to go, what to fight about, and who to fear.
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"I will continue to represent Stormy Daniels and others against Donald Trump and his cronies and will not rest until Trump is removed from office, and our republic and its values are restored," wrote Avenatti.
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That puts them in close contact — given the small numerical size of the global 1 percent — with the dictators, political cronies, quasi-criminal organizations, and outright gangsters who also avail themselves of tax evasion services.
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Even so, the show delivers a punch in the face to crooked politicians and their cronies, sometimes just by its timing: in Liberia last year, it aired while presidential elections were embroiled in fraud investigations.
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Warren came up with the idea for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for people getting preyed on by payday lenders and other shady debt dealers; Trump's cronies have been systematically dismantling it.
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He stacks his board of directors with a majority of cronies, either friends or business associates, all of whom nod and ascent to obscene levels of compensation and adopt a hands-off approach to wrongdoing.
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According to the docs ... the harassing behavior's been going strong since late March, and the woman claims Acton and her cronies have also damaged her personal belongings and tampered with her mailbox and Internet connection.
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This Old FBI File Is a Great Reminder of Just How Screwed Trump&aposs Lying Cronies AreMartin Friedman, the head of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, died last May at the age of 90.
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Unfortunately, the bank accounts and political clout of corrupt politicians and their cronies rank higher on the priority lists of too many of our elected officials than what is good for families or our nation.
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After clashing with the opposition-led National Assembly, he and his supreme court allies stripped lawmakers of their powers and established a Potemkin legislature, which he grandly named a "constituent assembly" and populated with cronies.
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Questions tend to linger, like whether splashy busts actually put a dent in the global market, and whether they might actually just trigger violence because they mean a cartel boss suddenly can't pay his cronies.
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Other apartments were supposed to go to low-income tenants but had been doled out by past administrations in a political spoils system that rewarded voting blocs of city workers, union members or just cronies.
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"Patricia and I are both passionate advocates of mothers, fathers and children separated at our southern border as a result of the draconian policies of Donald Trump and his cronies," Avenatti said in a statement.
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Joint investments between American firms and companies run by government cronies would be one possibility, said Mr. Ye Min Oo, a businessman who previously worked for one such person — U Tay Za, who is blacklisted.
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In a political twist, Lulzim Basha, Albania's youthful opposition leader, has repeatedly questioned Rama's leadership and accused him of widespread and extensive financial malfeasance to benefit himself and his cronies, reportedly including many underworld figures.
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En route, we get some sweet moments between him and his granddaughter (Kerry Bishé), as well as a night of boozy banter with his assisted-living cronies (featuring a perky Mort Sahl) that's warmly relaxed.
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This was allegedly done to curb the flow of untaxed income, a ludicrous claim, given the number of his cronies who sit in London and New York after defaulting on massive loans from government banks.
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"I don't see the N.L.D. government having a proper policy for handling crony capitalism or rehabilitating the cronies," said U Yan Myo Thein, a political analyst in Yangon, referring to the National League for Democracy.
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Can the crown prince and his father withstand pressure for even greater changes from Saudi moderates like Alwaleed and restrain themselves from replacing veteran ministers with hand-picked cronies in the traditional Saudi royal fashion?
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Its terminal was designed by the same architect Long had used to build a new Louisiana state capitol and a new governor's mansion, and it was originally named for one of Long's cronies, Abraham Shushan.
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A group of four senators, including Marco Rubio of Florida, released a little-noticed letter last week encouraging the Treasury Department to target two of Putin's top cronies who've been targeted by Navalny's infamous videos.
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" Regardless, Engel promised in a statement that his committee "will be holding hearings on the mysteries swirling around Trump's bizarre relationship with Putin and his cronies, and how those dark dealings affect our national security.
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Before Trump took office, it was reasonable to worry that he would fill high offices with cronies, but the real cranks have rarely lasted and many appointments have been reasonable and conventional and even boring.
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Meanwhile, in the background an incredible flurry of regulatory activity is happening out of public view — much of it contrary to free market principles but all of it lucrative for big business and Trump cronies.
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Evidence of financial malfeasance by Mr. Najib and his cronies helped Mr. Mahathir's opposition alliance win national elections on May 295, unseating a political force that had governed Malaysia since it gained independence in 21998.
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Bounded by a shopworn Persian rug on a low platform, the piece features seven mid-sized figures arranged around a kind of joker king (inspired by Trump, according to the artist), joined by two cronies.
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" Using similar language as her Fox cohorts, Ingraham told her viewers that top Democrats and "their media cronies" have "decided to weaponize fear and also weaponize suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November.
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Once Guzmán starts discussing how Pinochet and his cronies used "the Chicago model" to bring their country to economic ruin, you may think, given the depredations these figures committed, that he's talking about Al Capone.
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Sanders said Pence was "completely unqualified" and called Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House economist Larry Kudlow "political cronies," saying the three should be replaced in their roles in the response efforts by experts.
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Alongside other, mainly public-sector workers, ART ON STRIKE has organized a series of protests and other actions to fight this punitive program and the reactionary ideology of President Emmanuel Macron and his political cronies.
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At the same time, out of left field, the opposition is preparing to set up a shadow "national unity" government and appoint alternative judges to the Supreme Court, a body currently dominated by Maduro cronies.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Western donors must ensure that humanitarian aid and any future reconstruction assistance in Syria do not fuel repression or benefit "cronies" of President Bashar al-Assad, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday.
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"With the changes sweeping the country, I don't think they would put cronies into these top positions, so there will be a more level playing field, and more quality candidates brought to the fore," he said.
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Relinquishing the right to exercise the veto power of a golden share would also reduce the ability of politicians to meddle in companies that for decades provided cronies with lucrative jobs, lawyers and bankers have said.
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To this end, she has distanced herself from her father's thuggish cronies, built a team of number-crunching policy wonks and a network of local offices, and shed much of the imagery linked to her father.
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"Rick Scott caused the green-algae mess and resulting red tide by systematically gutting environmental protections and stacking regulatory boards with his cronies and contributors," Dan McLaughlin, a Nelson campaign spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News by email.
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More importantly, Mr Trump's victory—part of a global populist backlash against the political status quo—is an ominous sign for Mr Putin and his wealthy cronies, who have held power for more than 16 years.
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He took credit, too, for dragging the country out of the economic stagnation of the post-Soviet period into petrodollar-fuelled prosperity, although he failed to mention that his cronies have benefited more than his people.
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President Donald Trump has demanded that interest rates should be slashed, speculated about firing the boss of the Federal Reserve and said he will nominate Stephen Moore and Herman Cain, two unqualified cronies, to its board.
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The funds Hungary gets from the European Union, say opposition politicians, are often channelled to Mr Orban's cronies, including his son-in-law and the mayor of his home village, nurturing a new class of oligarchs.
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That leaves Americans at the brink, wondering if the U.S. government, under the auspices of Trump and his cronies who helped start the Iraq War in 2003, will stumble into another war for no good reason.
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The inquiry is looking into allegations that Zuma, ousted by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in February 2018, allowed cronies to plunder state resources and influence senior appointments during his nine years in power.
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And considering there is ample evidence to suggest that Putin and his cronies have made billions of dollars by stealing whatever they can from the Russian people, it's time for the world to know about it.
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Now, more than two years later, Rosselló's administration has failed to pass a budget, and many have accused Rosselló of funneling public funds meant for hurricane recovery and economic stimulation into the hands of his cronies.
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However, the corruption, human rights abuses and anarchy orchestrated by the government of President Kiir, his former vice President Riek Machar and their cronies have already seriously undermined the sovereignty of the people of South Sudan.
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While Putin strives to generate the appearance of an omnipotent czar, which is often blindly accepted in the West, the truth is that his authoritarian system of governance fundamentally depends on the loyalty of his cronies.
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Instead, we should be holding Putin and his cronies accountable for their previous actions and deter them from doing it again through a comprehensive sanctions regime as already authorized in a bipartisan way by Congress. Reps.
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He also hatches a plan to have Thirsty and his cronies steal the Antony and Cleopatra clothing line from Lyon Dynasty, and plant drugs in Mirage a Trois' tour bus, halting the show from going on.
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Young Nicaraguans became increasingly frustrated by inequality; though the years of growth had helped improve access to higher education, the only people who succeeded were those with money or with connections to Ortega and his cronies.
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Harvey Rothenberg was at the Media Center on Friday with his four cronies that comprise the "Super Bowl 5" gang, replete with varsity jackets adorned with their logo and a football helmet pictured on the back.
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There has not been a single incident in the 17 states or more than 200 communities that have implemented the ordinance that Charlotte attempted before Governor Pat McCrory and his cronies stepped in and reversed it.
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The credibility of the United States government, and the American electorate, will further erode as Trump keeps fear-mongering over immigrants, gutting environmental regulations and cozying up to dictators, business cronies and his broadly xenophobic base.
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Fidesz has cemented its power by politicizing the judiciary, creating rigged election rules, suppressing opposition media and using the power of the state to reward the party's cronies while punishing businesses that don't toe the line.
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Many of those who avoided prison as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's sweeping crackdown on alleged enemies after a July coup attempt have lost their jobs at media outlets taken over by Mr. Erdogan's cronies.
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The rest of the parties, meanwhile — Primo and his cronies, James Fletcher Chace, J. Paul Getty Sr., his secretary — discuss negotiations with such practiced fluency that it seems as if these kidnappings happen all the time.
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It may not come to a dead halt, but Trump's team of cronies will be distracted; they will be less brazen; they will be worrying about more potential whistle-blowers going public about what they're doing.
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Full Steam Ahead - I am immediately focusing on holding Donald Trump and his unethical cronies like Jacob Wohl accountable for their cowardly acts and efforts to intimidate innocent people who believe in the rule of law.
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On one hand, Lewandowski -- despite openly antagonizing House Democrats and preening for his Republican cronies -- testified fairly casually about misconduct by President Donald Trump that, in normal times, would be presidency-defining (and potentially presidency-ending).
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"I do not expect any of Trump's billionaire cronies to rat him out, but I am confident that there are many people in the know for whom $10 million is a lot of money," Flynt writes.
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"This verdict shows once again that there is no justice in Cambodia for local rights activists struggling to defend their land and communities from rapacious development activities by Prime Minister Hun Sen and his cronies," Robertson said.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his cronies disbanded the PSSI's executive committee, and then blocked Halid, the founder of the rebel league, and a couple others from participating in elections meant to re-staff the executive committee.
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"This is really about their interests and those of their cronies, and how they benefit from all this at the expense of the people," says Sami Atallah of the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies, a think-tank.
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His cronies — a man and a woman servant pair — present him with a birthday cake and sing to him, but the real big to-do at this party is a performance in which the two servants star.
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Venezuela's leaders-in-waiting should offer safe passage to Mr Maduro and his cronies to a comfortable refuge, perhaps in Cuba, and a political future to members of the regime who abide by the rules of democracy.
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But when he's caught by the Institute for Global Domination's maniacal cronies just as open enrollment on heath insurance is about to close, Brink must plan a quick escape before he's tortured "to debt" with hospital bills.
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The main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, who was barred from last weekend's election, has said that his biggest enemy is not Mr Putin and his cronies, but the debilitating conviction among ordinary Russians of their own powerlessness.
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For example, as part of his turn toward authoritarianism in 211, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expanded the size of Hungary's constitutional court from eight to 15 members — and ensured that the new justices were regime cronies.
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Cohn, another of the Competent Four, was rumored to be on the edge of resignation last summer, and Kelly has reportedly been making every effort to limit the President's access to policy advice from friends and cronies.
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His appearance at the inquiry – set up to test allegations that Zuma allowed cronies to plunder state resources and influence government appointments – marked a dramatic fall from grace for a politician who long dominated the country's politics.
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This political myopia makes sense, given the degree to which Trump and his cronies have upended American political norms, reshaped the Republican Party into something even more power-hungry and intellectually vacant, and threatened our very democracy.
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It is a good thing for all of us that he is gone from the E.P.A. Unfortunately, his desk and "cone of silence" will now be occupied by one of his equally unqualified cronies as interim administrator.
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To hasten Mr. Maduro's exit, the Trump administration has rightly joined with regional and international partners to impose sanctions against Mr. Maduro, his government and cronies, and to recognize the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, as interim president.
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A 2015 report by Global Witness, a London-based anticorruption organization, found that the military, its cronies and major drug lords controlled tens of billions of dollars from the jade trade in war-torn northern Kachin State.
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Mr. Corbyn's difficulty was that as a Labour man of the old school, he saw the European Union as a club for capitalist cronies and had never wanted Britain to belong to it in the first place.
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The tendency of presidents of both parties to reward cronies with clemency — from Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton's of the financier Marc Rich — is one Washington tradition that we'd welcome Mr. Trump smashing.
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For a time it looked as if his administration would have some reasonably competent people in its cabinet but that the White House itself, the zone of crucial decision making, would be reserved for cranks and cronies.
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"This calamity not only calls for the United States to continue seeking policy changes that apply more pressure over Maduro and his cronies without further hurting their victims, it calls for collective and decisive action," said Sen.
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Mr. Putin and his cronies had thrived in an empire where the K.G.B. was the sword and shield of the state, so they regularly return to their tried-and-true weapons when dealing with 21st-century problems.
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As a result, the parties treat the ministries they control as their personal sources of profit, awarding powerful jobs and lucrative contracts to their political cronies — instead of to qualified technocrats who actually know what they're doing.
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When Mr. Gotay takes over the role, about a third of the way into the show, the grown C has become a respected figure through his association with Sonny, and has acquired his own group of colorful cronies.
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Later, when Jonas catches Wayne stealing a large sum money, he takes the cash for himself and goes on the lam with Casey, living outdoors and trying to stay one step ahead of Wayne and his cop cronies.
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The president, after all, can staff the courts and the prosecutor's office with cronies, and therefore curb scrutiny of his or her own activities, says Park Jung-eun of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), a pressure group.
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" A senior Trump administration official told Fox News the restored sanctions against Iran that went into effect at midnight are designed to constrict the revenue Iran uses to fund "terrorists, dictators, proxy militias, and the regime's own cronies.
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"The United States will not stand idly by while foreign financial institutions facilitate illegitimate transactions that benefit Maduro and his cronies, and perpetuate the corruption that has devastated Venezuela," U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton wrote on Twitter.
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Multiple reports indicate Trump's transition team is leaning toward handing the most plum administration posts almost entirely to early loyalists and cronies of Trump, rather than trying to unite the GOP or appoint people based on their qualifications.
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Trumpism's survival would have required the president to be someone he isn't: knowledgeable on policy, savvy about how Washington works, intellectually curious, and willing to give power to people outside his small circle of family members and cronies.
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Rumours planted by the president's cronies last month suggested that the current, also impressive, finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, faced imminent arrest (he has so far survived, but is weakened and consequently less likely to challenge Mr Zuma's excesses).
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"While we have beaten back this attack on the BLM methane rule, we know that Trump and his Big Oil cronies are eyeing other avenues" to weaken pollution rules, said Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Lukas Ross.
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In his statement, Avenatti said he would "continue to represent Stormy Daniels and others against Donald Trump and his cronies and will not rest until Trump is removed from office, and our republic and its values are restored."
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Today, when "the powerful" include an uninformed, volatile president, a Congress run by his political cronies, and the unfit, far right-wing judges he is appointing to the bench, the Supreme Court is more important than ever before.
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One of them, according to court filings, involved a network of offshore companies that government investigators and independent journalists in Ukraine have said was used to launder public money and assets purportedly stolen by cronies of the government.
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The current government also instituted a measure that would enable the president to pursue an unprecedented second term and, in collusion with the two major political parties, pack the Supreme Court with cronies who politicize the judicial system.
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The Whistlers is a quirky, sly Romanian crime comedy with noir overtones, in which a crooked cop caught in a scheme goes to a remote island to learn a "whistling" language, the better to communicate with his cronies.
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The US has sanctioned more than 100 Venezuelan individuals and imposed financial penalties on Petroleos de Venezuela, the behemoth state-owned oil and natural gas company that Maduro has long used to reward his cronies and buy loyalty.
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"Donald Trump has sent a message to his friends and cronies that if you break laws to protect him or attack our democracy, he's got your back," said David Donnelly, the president of the watchdog group Every Voice.
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Stepping into the Chairman's role, George Clooney is the very definition of dapper, and his caper cronies (Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, and the contortionist Shaobo Qin) seem to be having a blast.
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Much of the splatter takes place inside a rundown meeting hall for war veterans, where Fred (Stephen Lang) and his cronies (including William Sadler, Fred Williamson and Martin Kove) drink and wax nostalgic about their exploits in Vietnam.
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In Hungary, democracy did not end when Mr. Orban staffed the electoral commission with his cronies, or when he put loyalists in charge of state television stations or even when he changed the Constitution to expand his powers.
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He took office promising to get the city's books in order after mounting accusations by the opposition that the municipal finances had been used to the benefit of the president as well as his party, cronies and family.
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"If PiS gets a second term, now even strengthened, independence of the judiciary and media will be weakened even further, regime cronies will be placed throughout governmental institutions, and opposition forces will be defunded and harassed," he said.
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Instead, the reason this action ought to frighten Kim Jong Un and his cronies is the precision and degree of technocratic competence being used to choke off the loopholes his regime uses to fuel its illicit nuclear ambitions.
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"The thing is, I want to know what is up with every other rotten thing the president and his cronies have done more than I want him to be impeached by the House," Alex Pareene wrote in September.
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It's long past time for Trump, Ryan and McConnell to stop ignoring the oaths they swore and to start protecting the country against the open attack by Vladimir Putin and his cronies on our constitutional system of government.
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And what if this effort did not benefit cronies or corporations, but instead protected the lives and dignity of vulnerable, disadvantaged Americans, members of one of the few such groups Mr. Trump did not demean during the campaign?
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The people honoring and defending the truth have been recast by Trump and his cronies as bitter rage-aholics who will stop at nothing to damage Trump because they loathe both him and the people who support him.
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He's given it away by surrounding himself with cronies and criminals, by running a corrupt administration filled with self-dealing Cabinet secretaries, by signing massive tax cuts for corporations and betraying his promise to pass sweeping ethics reforms.
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"Mitch McConnell and his cronies of cis-hetero able-bodied white men need to know that we will not give them a pass to blatantly attack our communities," said WERK for Peace founder Firas Nasr in a press release.
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Over the weekend, the New York Times editorial board—who managed to endorse Cuomo while singing Nixon's praises—called for the governor to apologize to Nixon after his cronies sent out a mailer falsely accusing her of anti-semitism.
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After then-president Viktor Yanukovych fled his palace during Ukraine's bloody 271 revolution, law enforcement agents across the globe focused on one question: How did the Kremlin-backed politician and his cronies make $211 billion in state assets disappear?
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Mr Orban has exploited these weaknesses to reshape Hungary's institutions to serve his Fidesz party and its cronies, while railing against "globalists" like George Soros, a Hungarian-born financier, and the European officials who supposedly dance to his drum.
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Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies have been beefing up their presence in Washington for years, precisely so that Facebook will have the power to pull off something like the net neutrality-bashing program that is Free Basics in America.
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Weeks earlier, Mr Davutoglu had published a manifesto that criticised the new constitution (which gives Mr Erdogan nearly unchecked powers), AK's alliance with ultra-nationalists, widespread censorship and the influence of a "parallel structure" of cronies and palace officials.
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Corruption, always a problem, became so widespread under Jacob Zuma, South Africa's atrocious president from 2009 to 2018, that a more accurate ANC slogan during his rule would have been "a better life for the president and his cronies".
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Not only would it get rid of the man investigating Trump's disgraced cronies and their myriad ties to shady Russians, it might signal that the president is going to start flat-out ignoring the law from here on out.
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In each case, we emphasized the vital importance of taking out the airfields that were allowing both the resupply of weapons to Assad and his Iranian cronies (and now the Russians), and permitting those forces air dominance over Syria.
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He has lost control of his own aides to leaks and investigations, of his old television cronies to spiteful personal feuds, and most of all of the narrative of an "America First" presidency with a coherent vision or promise.
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"Pai wants to continue the Trump administration's assault on free speech and political dissent, and hand over control of the internet to his corporate cronies at AT&T, Comcast and Verizon," said Free Press field director Mary Alice Crim.
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Tony Hawk is ready to toss his balls at White Goodman and the rest of his Globo Gym cronies ... and tells TMZ Sports he has a wish list of Average Joe's he wants with him -- starting with LEBRON JAMES.
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At the same time, as media outlets begin to beef-up investigative units, Trump's cronies will actively try to tear down all external pillars of accountability to insulate the President and control the flow of information that reaches him.
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"I do not expect any of Trump's billionaire cronies to rat him out, but I am confident that there are many people in the know for whom $10 million is a lot of money," Flynt said in the ad.
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In a modern day Russian analogue to Louis XIV's famous statement, "l'etat, c'est moi," Russia's president and his cronies are convinced that everything in Russia must be subordinated to the state — and that the state is personified by Putin.
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Relations with Saudi Arabia deteriorated and then turned toxic when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE conspired to support an attempted plot by partisans of the former Emir to assassinate Sheikh Hamid and restore his old cronies to power.
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She'd been kept down by Jafar and his cronies, and ultimately she sees that Agrabah needs to change, to be brought to the modern-day and [she] pushes back and fights back and, ultimately, is a voice for change.
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Then, in the late summer, the U.S. acted with a muddled, contradictory policy, allowing the Saudis and Turks to send in some weapons chiefly to Islamic units, hoping Assad would step aside while his cronies could stay in power.
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This administration, on issues such as baby formula, efforts to reduce obesity, making lifesaving drugs more available or environmental improvement, has put enhancing the economic welfare of its cronies above the health and welfare of the American people. Shame.
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He should also sanction Russian oligarchs — freezing their assets, barring them from the global banking system, preventing their children from attending Western schools — ensuring that Mr. Putin's cronies feel America's reach and use their influence to stop his aggression.
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They were expensive, and the two companies with the contracts to provide the phones and the SIM cards were dominated by Bashar's cronies and family, including his cousin Rami Makhlouf, who is known as the richest man in Syria.
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Plus, some experts think Xi has generated so many enemies with his anti-corruption campaign — there's speculation that it has allowed him to install cronies in jobs poised for promotion — that he might need the protection of high office.
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"While Iranian regime leaders maintain access to the internet and social media accounts for themselves and their cronies, they deprive their people of these basic tools of expression and communication," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
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However, surely they understand that the emergence of the Tea Party was not really a grass-roots movement but funded and carefully planned (and made to look spontaneous) by moneyed interests organized by the Koch brothers and their cronies.
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"If the F.B.I. has asked for information about Trump or any of his cronies relative to N.S.A. collection overseas, it wasn't for grins," said Frank Montoya Jr., a former F.B.I. agent who served as the government's senior counterintelligence official.
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In August 2016, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau published the "black ledger," a document that allegedly recorded illegal off-the-books payments made by Yanukovich's Russia-backed Party of Regions to its cronies, including millions of dollars to Manafort.
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In the video, a high school–aged Miller jokingly calls torture "a celebration of life and human dignity," and adds that cutting off the fingers of Saddam Hussein and his cronies is the "ideal solution" to America's involvement in Iraq.
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Also, Putin's cronies and other Russian oligarchs — whose game is to make tons of dirty money in Russia and then take it to London, where it can be laundered for safekeeping — are now getting more scrutinized than ever by British authorities.
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No matter how badly Trump and his cronies try to write history, the fact remains: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by three million votes, stopping any claim from the president that he was the more popular candidate by every measure.
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By the end of the afternoon, the man Mr Maduro and his cronies have tried to dismiss as a "little boy" had been recognised internationally as the legitimate leader of a country with some of the world's largest oil reserves.
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The adaptation is still in its early stages and we're a long way from getting anything like a cast list, but it's still fun to imagine who might wind up playing Trump and his cronies in the Fire and Fury show.
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According to his letter, Liccardo found himself at the end of his rope during the panel's most recent meeting in Washington, DC. He described one working group that didn't include a single municipal representative but was stacked with telecom cronies.
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It's not just Trump and his cronies who can get caught up in Section 702 surveillance: any American who communicates with a foreign government official, particularly one of a hostile nation, is likely to have those conversation recorded by US spies.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine Supreme Court has rejected efforts to claim almost $1 billion in damages from the estate of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies, saying the government had failed to prove alleged graft related major infrastructure projects.
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More than 80 percent of the Chechen Republic's budget is provided by subsidies from Moscow, which have turned downtown Chechnya into a shining, high-rise (and virtually empty) architectural testament to Kadyrov's vanity and enriched him and his cronies no end.
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Trump and his cronies will try to play up the military spending as proof that they are making America Great Again, but the effects of this budget will reverberate around the country—and may very well backfire, as Trumpcare already has.
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"Catherine Cortez Masto could have done the job taxpayers were paying her to do, but, instead, she used the housing crisis to reward political cronies in Washington, D.C., with a lucrative contract," Freedom Partners spokesman Bill Riggs said in a statement.
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The EPA administrator has spent his tenure attacking science by appointing corporate cronies to consulting boards, relying on sham science in rolling back public health and environmental protections, and ignoring science when it gets in the way of his predetermined goals.
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What is galling is how openly Prime Minister Viktor Orban does it, blaming the European Union for every imagined indignity or interference in Hungary's affairs, while milking billions from Brussels to enrich his cronies and prop up his illiberal rule.
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"The dismissal of the nation's top law enforcement official is a huge step, one that should not be based on political motives — and certainly should not be done to protect the president or his cronies from the law," Romero said.
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"Maduro and his cronies must know that being peaceful doesn't mean that we won't defend the nation when we're forced to," the opposition leader Henrique Capriles said in a statement in which he called on Venezuelans to join Wednesday's demonstration.
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We probably haven't heard the last jaw-dropping revelation from the company's ranks either, as more and more employees leak embarrassing memos that cast Kalanick and his cronies as overgrown frat boys with keys to a castle they intend to trash.
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"We wanted to make clear to the inner circle that Putin can't protect them, that he can't shield his cronies," Daniel Fried, who was in charge of the sanctions policy in the State Department during the Obama Administration, told me.
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As Pruitt was being slammed by negative reports about his first-class flights, his lobbyist-owned condo, and his enormous raises for cronies, the Pruitt-for-Sessions rumor was revived again, in that report by CNN's Pamela Brown and Kaitlan Collins.
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And he staged a coup of sorts at Ajax in 2011, clearing out most of the club's board and replacing them with cronies supposed to implement his vision to return the club to Europe's elite — with iffy results thus far.
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In fact, the whole place is kitted out with charity shop finds, giving the impression that it has been recently vacated in haste by the Mad Hatter and his cronies (a thought that seems increasingly well-founded as my meal progresses).
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His opponents — the protest Five Star party, the anti-immigrant Northern League, Silvio Berlusconi and his old cronies on the center right, the überpopulist Fratelli d'Italia and the left flank of his own Democratic Party — all loved the drama of it.
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I had traveled to the rebel-held capital of Kauda to train journalists, but was soon distracted by the making of an episode of "Bisha TV," a satirical puppet show that mocked the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and his cronies.
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At the end of the series' Christmas special, Trump and his cronies gather in the Oval Office, along with an assortment of other "characters" from the series (who include prominent Democrats, regular American citizens, and, for whatever reason, Bebe Neuwirth).
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Here's the right way to put pressure on Venezuela's regime: Mr. Trump and other leaders need to keep trying to encourage a transition deal by tightening targeted sanctions on Mr. Maduro and his cronies who undergird an autocratic, corrupt system.
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Mr. Trump and his supporters claim the president is draining the swamp, just as he replaces it with his cronies: Mr. Giuliani, his family, whatever allies and backers are willing to work with him in Washington or Kiev or wherever else.
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They saw "so many people" (including the Arm, the Woodsmen and all of their cronies, perhaps?); and they watched Major Briggs float up to the sky in a moment disrupted by some kind of mayhem, ending with decapitations left and right.
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The Japanese government today is dominated by third- and fourth-generation descendants of long political dynasties, who inherited such important assets as name recognition, dedicated electoral machines, ample tax-exempt campaign funds and vast networks of cronies and special interest groups.
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While much of the narco world remains in the shadows, Treviño and his cronies were brought to trial in Austin, in 2013, in one of the most extensive lawsuits against a Mexican cartel to be heard in an American courtroom.
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As I've written for CNN before, I believe that the Trump administration runs Washington as a classically corrupt authoritarian regime, using the power of the federal government not only to funnel resources to its cronies, but also to conceal its activities.
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And given the eagerness with which Trump and his cronies have glommed onto some of these lines of attack, most especially with Biden and Ukraine, there's little reason to think that Giuliani's efforts across Eastern Europe will stop anytime soon.
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The man, Riad, a schoolteacher, said the government had given local Sunni Arab tribe members like himself mainly low-level jobs, saving well-paid ones for government cronies and leaving locals to deal with the environmental problems from the industry.
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Then, capitalizing on the Communist Tet offensive in February 1968, Thieu pounced on the pretext by replacing Ky's cronies in the military, and at the airport, customs bureau and shipyards — choke points in both camps' competing gold- and narcotics-smuggling rings.
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The officials he has appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency and other relevant parts of government are industry cronies and lobbyists far more interested in self-enrichment, padding their accounts, and helping their once-and-future employers than in doing their current jobs.
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DAN HENNINGER, COLUMNIST & DEPUTY EDITOR: Well, I think he wants some -- well, the one thing he would really like to get is some relief from the economic sanctions that the United States and the European Union have imposed on him and his cronies.
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It's here that the film briefly sparks to life, as Arthur's grifting, wisecracking cronies (with colorful names like Goosefat Bill) hatch their throne-toppling scheme in thick Cockney accents reminiscent of Ritchie's East London street toughs from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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It's the concept that helped skyrocket a previously buttoned up Teen Vogue into the wokeness stratosphere; it's since been trotted out many times as a way to explain the alternate reality being peddled by the president and his cronies in the Oval Office.
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In Poland the governing Law and Justice party has subjugated courts by stacking the Constitutional Tribunal with its cronies and by letting parliament, rather than other judges, choose members of the National Council of the Judiciary, the body that handles judicial appointments.
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Nora Brownell, a Republican ex-FERC commissioner appointed by George W. Bush, calls it "cash for cronies"; she believes it was intended to help coal firms and bosses that donated heavily to Mr Trump's presidential campaign, and to Mr Perry's before it imploded.
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As a longtime workers' advocate who conceived of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency that has been defanged by Trump and his cronies, Warren's national star first rose when she called out the bad actors behind the 2008 financial crisis.
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By contrast, to suggest Clinton committed a crime, and, through a network of cronies, got away with it, isn't a racialized (or in this case gendered) attack the way birtherism is, and it places Clinton in the impossible position of proving a negative.
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Whereas some billionaires have given away large chunks of their fortunes, the Trump family's charity shut down last year amid a lawsuit from the state of New York and allegations Donald Trump and his cronies illegally used it as a personal piggy bank.
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By May 2017, McCabe implies he was in a state of panic on behalf of the gullible nation led by a Russian asset — but as Ohr said, McCabe and his cronies were aware that the explosive claims in the dossier were unverified.
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"Donald Trump has sent a message to his friends and cronies that if you break laws to protect him or attack our democracy, he's got your back," said David Donnelly, president and CEO of Every Voice, a money-in-politics watchdog group.
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When the democratic opposition won free and fair elections and a clear majority in the National Assembly, Maduro responded as any other dictator would: He filled the Supreme Court with his cronies and removed all powers from the opposition-led legislative branch.
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One of her husbands, Sherman Ray, was shot by one of her cronies, and his family accused her of being involved, especially given that he had taken out two life insurance plans shortly before his death, with Taylor the sole beneficiary of both.
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After passage by Congress of the "Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act," the U.S. sanctioned Artem Chaika, the son of Russia's prosecutor general, who used his father's position to extort bribes and win contracts for himself and his cronies, while driving out competition.
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"The Trump administration is simply trying to payback its polluter cronies by gutting sound science that our health and environmental protections rely on," Neil Gormley, an attorney with Earthjustice, wrote in a statement announcing the appeal filed in the D.C. Circuit Court.
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In a couple of them Guston's Nixon is a hooded Klansman conspiring with his cronies Spiro T. Agnew and John Mitchell, but in most he is a kind of walking gonad, his nose a penis that grows longer with every lie he tells.
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That was by design: In 2004, the government gained control of the supreme court by modifying the law that regulates it, allowing the government to increase the number of sitting justices from 20 to 32 and fill those jobs with political cronies.
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