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How to use the word crony in a Sentence?

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No FII or DII is selling, the fact is that the company management is profitting by bringing down share price through its unknown crony subsidiary. When the share price comes down from Rs.2800 to Rs.2500, the difference of Rs.500 goes in company owners pocket with small commission to inside operators, business news channels for helping and youtubers for spreading rumors

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

The EX-IM Bank represents crony capitalism at its worst, providing taxpayer-financed giveaways to large corporations and foreign governments like China, the bank has a history of forcing American taxpayers to support loans to the Export-Import Bank of China and even the Bank of China itself.

Pat Toomey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We should call this what it is: an absolute cover-up by the White House, the White House is advancing a new and dangerous theory: the crony privilege.

Jerrold Nadler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators, the use of crony senators to win would also make Prayut's electoral victory illegitimate in the eyes of most Thai people.

Paul Chambers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I believe in fair market, American capitalism and that is a big difference between Secretary Clinton's Wall Street crony capitalism and Senator Sanders' socialism.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We intentionally asked them about this, to test where they stood on crony capitalism.

Doug Sachtleben

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better. And meanwhile, we will continue to crush the businesses that create jobs and middle-class families.

Carly Fiorina

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well-connected to dig your way through that tax code, what I will continue to point out is the fact that every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I see it as crony capitalism. The argument that other countries do it is an argument that just does not fly with me. We’re America.

Paul Ryan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is right : crony capitalism is alive and well, government and government programs have grown so big, so powerful, so costly and so complex that only the big and the powerful can prosper. But Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is dead wrong about how to end crony capitalism. You see, whether it is Dodd-Frank, Obamacare or net neutrality, all this government complexity means the big get bigger, the small disappear, and the powerless are trapped.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One of the things we need to do to avoid crony capitalism is have rule of law. So our point was obey our regulation, we will work with you to fix it, to make it more useful for you.

Raghuram Rajan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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