(n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Crone spoke to someone in London, who also had no knowledge.
(2) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(3) The News Group Newspapers head of legal, Tom Crone, told the committee in July that he was 20.
(4) It accused Colin Myler, a former editor of the News of the World, and the paper's ex-head of legal, Tom Crone, deliberately withheld crucial information and answered questions falsely.
(5) Relationships deteriorated between Brooks and her team and Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, and the paper's chief lawyer, Tom Crone, both of whom were no longer involved in internal inquiries relating to phone hacking.
(6) The then News of the World editor, Colin Myler, and legal counsel, Tom Crone, are also understood to have seen it.
(7) Tom Crone, legal manager for News Group, told the committee Mulcaire, jailed for six months in January 2007 for hacking into voicemails of royal aides and others, had received a settlement, though it "bore no relation" to the £200,000 suggested by one MP.
(8) Tom Crone, the legal manager for News Group, the News International subsidiary that publishes the News of the World, said Mulcaire had earned rights as a contracted employee with a annual deal with the worth more than £100,000.
(9) Neville Thurlbeck claimed Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the newspaper, had left him "to dangle as a suspect for the next two years" after he first told them in July 2009 that he had "final proof" that phone-hacking at the paper went beyond a single "rogue reporter".
(10) Murdoch, also the chairman and chief executive of News International parent company News Corporation's businesses in Europe and Asia, was told about the Taylor claim, and Crone continued negotiations with the PFA boss until a settlement was agreed last year, Myler told the committee.
(11) In July 2009 the News of the World's editor, Colin Myler, told MPs that he and the paper's top lawyer, Tom Crone, briefed James Murdoch over a proposed £700,000 payment to Gordon Taylor, of the Professional Footballers' Association, to settle a case over alleged hacking of his phone.
(12) Crone responded that Mulcaire apparently did have such rights.
(13) The News International head of legal, Tom Crone, and the News of the World editor, Colin Myler, took the settlement figure to Murdoch for his approval, MPs on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee hearing into privacy, press standards and libel heard.
(14) This feat he proudly recorded: “One cackling young crone claimed loudly that I had no evidence.” As well as limiting access to abortion and excluding women from company boards and any other careers where they might take men’s jobs, Mr Buchanan hopes, with his election campaign, to inflict especial damage on the Labour party, to which end he is standing against Gloria de Piero .
(15) "Every single case against us from breach of privacy, unless information is out there in public domain, results in very strict confidentiality clause," Crone said.
(16) In the brain, the reference molecule was an intravascular marker (Crone's method) whereas inthe salivary gland the reference was an extracellular marker of similar size to the test molecule.
(17) Today, Labour MP Paul Farrelly, a member of the culture select committee, put these comments to Crone and asked how the company could continue to maintain that it had no evidence of wider evidence of phone hacking.
(18) MPs said that Myler and Crone deliberately withheld crucial information and answered falsely questions put by the committee.
(19) Temperature effects on the permeabilities of the structured endothelium and epithelium to antipyrine (AP) have been determined with the indicator dilution technique in isolated rat and dog lungs perfused between 38 and 8 degrees C. Permeability coefficients of the endothelium to AP [Pendo(AP)] from the Crone equation are smaller than values for isolated endothelial cells but close to the permeability coefficient of the interstitial epithelial plasmalemma [Pepi(AP)] obtained from physical and mathematical models.
(20) The committee is due to hear evidence from Colin Myler, the current editor of the News of the World, and Tom Crone, the paper's lawyer, next week.
Crony
Definition:
(n.) A crone.
(n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend
Example Sentences:
(1) As for the speaker in parliament Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, he has formed an improbable alliance with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the assumption that she might help him thwart the plans of his former cronies.
(2) Tony Abbott would put those same premiers in charge of the national environment with his plan to hand off federal environmental approval powers to his state cronies – an environmental disaster waiting to happen."
(3) However, Lord Oakeshott, a prominent Liberal Democrat peer, said honours "for Cameron's cronies and Osborne's donors dishonour the system", while John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw, also criticised some of the awards, saying the "same old politicians' cronies are discrediting the honours system" adding "it's not what you know but who you know".
(4) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(5) Cameron and his cronies may have just been "born this way", but when they could choose to be on the side of women they simply haven't.
(6) He also claimed that David Cameron's party and its "cronies" were trying to create financial panic to frighten people into voting for them.
(7) The oil boom of the past few years has made the Aliyev family and its cronies extremely wealthy and the regime will do its utmost to keep power.
(8) The unprecedented rise in the cost of living and the deplorable state of hospitals have put the people in the exact position that Museveni and his cronies want them to be – a place where many are too worried about their next meal to care about abstract political ideas and rights.
(9) In Uncommon Danger, the representatives of communism and what Zaleshoff calls "moderate radicalism" but Kenton himself would probably think of as basic human decency are pitted against the agents of capital and fascism: Balterghen, Saridza and their many cronies.
(10) At an even slower pace, they seized the assets of half a dozen crony companies and recovered most of the coconut levy.
(11) He would face a predictable volley of criticism from Conservative-leaning papers who didn't like the idea of a former Blair toiler – or "labour crony" in Mail speak – at No 10 ruling the corporation they love to hate.
(12) New Labour had created a kind of "crony capitalism", he said.
(13) Nick Clegg has used his first intervention of the new year to map out a crackdown on "crony capitalism", vowing to take action against company tax avoidance, excessive executive pay and irresponsible capitalism.
(14) Unlike many crony capitalists who troll the halls of Congress looking for favors, the Kochs have consistently lobbied against special-interest politics.” Touching on a key plank of his attempted appeal to liberal voters , Paul continues: “[The Kochs] have always stood for freedom, equality and opportunity.
(15) Further revelations are expected as more US court documents are unsealed and the arrest and extradition process continues The Tory MP Damian Collins, a prime mover in the New Fifa Now campaign, said on Sunday: “We know Blatter will do all he can to try to retain influence over Fifa to protect himself and his cronies.
(16) Bell has always been described as "close to New Labour", though nobody would ever be rude enough to call him a crony.
(17) Zardari and his cronies in the presidency are immersed in all aspects of the government, as the regular press releases issued from his office make clear, with updates on him dealing with everything from flood control measures to foreign affairs.
(18) The two groups are also working to lift the ban on oil exports and to end funding for the US government’s Export-Import Bank, which they deem an example of “crony capitalism”.
(19) Borders campaigner Graeme Steel said: "Anyone else would be called a criminal for defying a judge but Alex Salmond and his Big Wind cronies think they can keep get away with it.
(20) It’s for crony capitalists to be able suck off of them.” If you think that sounds obscene, wait until you get to the part about slurping off the gravy train.