cabal

Facebook was the company that broke the cabal based on everything I've heard from friends at these companies.

An inside club or "cabal" can arise where there are a number of vested contributors who mutually reinforce.

I dunno - do you really think auto reviewers are all a same-think cabal who hold grudges on each other's behalf?

Venezuela should be a much richer country but was controlled by a cabal of wealthy families that siphoned the wealth offI have heard that argument before...many times.

It almost feels like he has a secret cabal he's colluding with to pass traffic between then, for all they mention each-other in shining terms--but it's just unsolicited praise.

> But this implicit line that there's a secret cabal of "capitalists" all persuaded by some idea that they never publicly proselytize, [...]The way the Marxist argument for class interest works, is that there does not need to be a secret cabal.

He's stated many times that the harmful influences that he describes are not the result of a cabal, as he is often misattributed as asserting, but that he is and always has been speaking about the effects of a complex system, whose intent is not the intent of any individual part of the system.

It only turned into governmental debt when the government guaranteed bank debt, having been convinced by the banking-political cabal in the middle of the 2008 crisis that the bank problem was liquidity, not solvency; but with banks holding assets formed from inflated house prices, they didn't have as much capital as they thought.

The passive aggressive reverts, and the lack of power to abate them sounds like a lack of leverage on her part, and while she may chalk the entire thing up to her lack of pull due to being female, I see this as a symptom of the cabal syndrome you often see in self managed companies.- I think it's obvious that she's sensitive to sexist issues, even on the side of seeing it in places where it may not exist.

"... as a Python programmer, I was the member of an elite cabal of superhuman ultranerds, smarter than those childish Rails/JavaScript/PHP/whatever developers that couldnt write a bubble sort or comprehend even basic algorithmic complexity, but more in touch with reality than the grey-bearded wizards of Lisp/Haskell/whatever that sat in their caves/towers/whatever solving contrived, nonexistent problems for people that dont exist, or those insane Erlang programmers who are content writing sumerian cuneiform all day long.