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Перевод: nepotism

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непотизм ; семейственность ; кумовство
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Тезаурус:

1. IMRAN KHAN, the Pakistan captain, has called for an overhaul of Pakistan cricket to combat what he describes as widespread "nepotism and favouritism".
2. He dismisses the nepotism charge derisively, and claims Air France, despite state control, operates competitively.
3. Packer believes that nepotism plays no role in the explanation of these events because the males of a troop, having transferred into it from elsewhere, must be only very distant relatives of one another.
4. Nepotism is selfish behaviour having the appearance of altruism since it benefits relatives as well as ones own concerns.
5. Bloody nepotism".
6. Alexander (1974) expresses the nature of the process most succinctly in the term "nepotism".
7. As the ball disappeared into the Kop the Chesterfield fan said, to no-one in particular: "Nepotism.
8. At times, it looks like little more than nepotism: The Prince of Wales' last private secretary, Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens; his father, Lord Adeane, had been the Queen's private secretary for nearly twenty years, and his great-grandfather, Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI's private secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood, husband of Princess Mary.
9. Horror stories abound: of the rogue's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction.
10. "And Bob's your uncle, so to speak?" said the inspector, paying unconscious tribute to an old nepotism.
11. Franjieh's rule had been particularly corrupt; his son Tony was exalted to the Cabinet through a process of nepotism scarcely rivalled elsewhere in the Middle East.
12. It is a system which not merely connived at nepotism, it depended upon it.
13. Therefore it is only natural for the sponsors to indulge in a little nepotism and provide its Japanese audience with somebody they can identify with while they are enjoying a nightcap.