For example, he has carelessly appointed corrupt relatives and cronies to high office and has brazenly manipulated the courts.

He forbade the practices of simony (selling ecclesiastical offices for money) and ended the custom of clerics appointing relatives to offices under their jurisdiction.

High inflation greatly eroded his strength, as did a pervasive weariness with his bluff style and sultan-like tendencies in appointing relatives to high positions.

There have been allegations that Mr. Mulroney and other ministers appointed political cronies and relatives to lucrative Government posts.

She was kept informed of all political developments in the country and built up her own network of support by appointing friends and relatives to important posts.

John III had a habit of appointing relatives to ecclesiastical offices, including two of his brothers.

A9 The Prime Minister of Greece appointed relatives to top posts.

As discredited officials from the old government began leaving their posts this week, the victors in Georgia's popular uprising began appointing friends and relatives to their positions.

Washington had never appointed relatives to office, it was said, not even distant relatives.

"That is the difficulty about appointing relatives to positions like this," he added.