nepotism
裙带关系,任人唯亲,唯亲主义,唯利是图
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- : patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
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He recently came under fire, accused of nepotism for awarding PPE contracts to a fashion company that pays his son to show its clothes on his Instagram channel.
The big twist is that by requesting those documents, Hall did in fact uncover a nepotism problem plaguing UT admissions.
Corruption and nepotism are rampant in the Afghan Army and “it would collapse without U.S. financial support,” the major says.
This is a brand new work by Lucy Hogg (yes, my wife – nepotism 'r us), from a series documenting how people use art museums.
A Haaretz editorial was more explicit, dubbing the election of Yosef and Lau “a victory for nepotism.”
This is not the first time Sirleaf has been charged with nepotism.
But Dredge was only thirty-four, and some people seemed to feel that there was a kind of deflected nepotism in Lanfear's choice.
He exposed the nepotism of bishops, the worldliness of clergymen, and the indifference of Church-people to religion in general.
Home is the nest of nefarious nepotism, and between that and disparaging prejudice, countless youths go to the devil.
In the Sacred College as elsewhere nepotism and an exaggerated estimate of temporal interests were rife.
The influence of nepotism on sub-infeudation, in the case of ecclesiastical fiefs, is too important to be passed over.