old-boy network
Example Sentences
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The Cognetti and Rothchild victories, coupled with the five-member reform slate elected to the Scranton School Board, including four women, are not just blows to the old-boy network, but to the old governance network.
From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2019
This comes a year after women totally reshaped the old-boy network of the Virginia General Assembly, taking 38 of 140 seats in that election.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2018
Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash the year before Parton got to town, had recently challenged the industry’s old-boy network, in which women almost never headlined shows.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2017
No other college combines the intimate academic setting and broad curriculum of a LAC with a potent old-boy network.
From Economist • Oct. 29, 2015
He reminds us that the SAT was viewed, upon its introduction, as a liberal reform — a breakthrough for meritocracy, a way to jettison the old-boy network that fenced out minorities and nonlegacies.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2011
