Sentence examples of "кормушка" in Russian
Это означает быть представителем другого клана, с другой стороны кормушки.
It means being in a different clan, at a different part of the feeding trough.
И хотя даже сам Пентагон хотел закрыть многие из них и потратить освободившиеся при этом деньги на что-нибудь другое, ни одно мероприятие не удавалось провести через Конгресс, потому что военные базы квалифицировались как «кормушка» - подарки для их избирателей, которые помогали конгрессменам быть снова избранными - и, в соответствии со старыми священными неписаными правилами, ни один конгрессмен никогда не проголосует против «кормушки», которая находится в районе, где избирается его коллега.
Even though the Pentagon itself wanted to close many of them and use the money elsewhere, no measure could be gotten through the Congress, because military bases qualify as "pork" - the favors for their constituents that help congressmen get re-elected – and, according to old and sacred informal rules, no congressman will ever vote against pork in a colleague's district.
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