favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications)

he became critical of the way football was run in iran, implying cronyism and saying money played too big a part.

他开始批评伊朗足球运动的管理方式，暗示其中存在任人唯亲的现象，并指出金钱在足球运动中起到的作用太大。

indeed, boardroom cronyism may have helped get him the job; he spent several years on the boeing board alongside william daley, mr obama’s newish chief of staff.

确实，董事会的关系可能对他上任有一定帮助，他与奥巴马新任参谋长威廉在波音董事会共事多年。

mrs hutchison claimed that during mr perry’s tenure the state’s education system has stagnated, state agencies have been mismanaged and cronyism has flourished.

哈奇森夫人宣称在裴瑞先生的任期内，该州的教育系统死气沉沉、州政府机关的管理不当、任人唯亲的情况严重。

question from guest: do you think it is ideological barriers that prevent progress or is it just old fashioned cronyism and greed?

盖斯特的问题：您认为是意识形态的障碍阻止了进步，还是老一套的结党营私和贪婪？

a spell in opposition seemed apt punishment for the incompetence, cronyism and extremism of the bush presidency.

反对浪潮似乎对布什总统的无能，虚伪和极端的适当惩罚。

with adequate safeguards, i. e. , reputation, cronyism may be avoi. e…

因为适当的防护，如声誉、任用亲信可能被避免。

if this sounds to you like a perfect setup for cronyism and profiteering — remember those missing billions in iraq? — you’re not alone.

说到这里，如果您觉得这种做法是照顾亲信与谋取暴利的最佳安排——不要忘记在伊拉克失蹤的数十亿美元——许多人与您有同样的看法。

cronyism and sleaze are an ever-present danger in international organisations.

任人唯亲和道德败坏一直是国际组织的一个威胁。

one priority for the new government ought to be to root out the cronyism (and its linked party financing) that gave property developers too much political influence.

新政府的首要任务应该是彻底铲除任人唯亲（及与其有关的政党融资），因其给房地产开发商们施加了太多政治影响。

some cite a mission to shake up china's scientific culture of cronyism and mediocrity, often cited as its biggest impediment to scientific achievement.

他们带着一个使命回国：重塑中国任人唯亲和平庸无奇的科学风气，这通常被认为是取得科学成就的最大障碍。

the culture of cronyism and impunity which made such horrors possible is not well in the past， and most of the institutions involved have been shut for decades.

这些文化在过去发展得并不好，而且大部份涉及到的机构已经关闭了几十年。

cleaning up what looks like cronyism may be easier than the next step: shutting down the money pipeline from department of defense contracts to potential insurgents.

整顿这种任人唯亲之举可能比下一步措施要来得容易：关闭美国国防部向潜在叛军输送资金的通道。

with adequate safeguards, i. e. , reputation, cronyism may be avoided.

因为适当的防护，如声誉、任用亲信可能被避免。