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

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

This is not an old-boy network, but a “one-boy network.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 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

Intent on improving its leadership, the army began to promote officers on the basis of success in examinations rather than through the old-boy network, and Dreyfus was one of those selected for special training.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010