“cronies”造句，怎麼用cronies造句

Grandfather often toddled round to the club for a chat with his cronies.

Likely donors still fear that too much of their cash would be stolen and squandered by Mr Mugabe's entrenched cronies.

There is no plausible expectation that Assad will lead a process of reform, one that inevitably forces him and his cronies out of business.

"Once he gets in, that will be the real test of leadership," says Mr Rewane. "Is he strong enough to tell those cronies that the party's over?"

A torrent of dubious privatisations carried out earlier this year has put even more assets in the hands of these cronies.

Knowing that however well they govern, they cannot hang on to power, leaders focus on rewarding cronies in the hope of retaining influence after their period in office ends.

A former groom and then a jockey and quite illiterate, he was a protege of the notorious Christian Weber, one of Hitler's oldest party cronies and himself a horse fancier, who by fraudulence had amassed a fortune and a great racing stable after 1933.

The old man's former cronies are all dead.

These concerns are still addressed primarily by cultivating Mr. Saleh, his family and cronies.

Instead Western powers are hoping that Mr Assad's cronies will begin to desert him as the international pressure mounts.

Sadly, the programme seems to be a hurried asset-stripping exercise by the generals and their cronies, with echoes of Russia's 1990s fire sale.

In theory privatisation has the scope to restructure the economy, but a fire sale risks letting the choicest assets fall into the hands of cronies who will manipulate regulation to suit themselves.

Suddenly a SWAT team bursts through the doors and arrests Frank and his cronies.

A daily (or even more frequent) Twitter 'tweet' from you keeps your cronies and well-wishers abreast of your latest job-search happenings.

Some cronies amassed fortunes.

"Liggeri contended that Pfizer had much more damaging information on Aondoakaa and that Aondoakaa's cronies were pressuring him to drop the suit for fear of further negative articles," it said.

Meanwhile, as in Egypt and Tunisia, Mr Qaddafi’s relatives and cronies monopolised many of the most lucrative business opportunities.