pet project

Sinn Féin members of the assembly's education committee branded it a "pet project" for the DUP which "smacks of cronyism".

"And I'm not criticising the school in any way, but this seems to be a pet project for your party and it's beginning to smack of cronyism."

It's a pet project for Prime Minister Mark Brown, who believes it will reshape this country of 15 volcanic islands in the southern Pacific.

The program, called “CBS Mornings Plus,” is a pet project of Wendy McMahon, chief executive of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.

That led to a position on a team at IBM secretly designing the world’s fastest supercomputer, a pet project of IBM President Thomas Watson Jr. Conway moved with the team to Menlo Park, Calif., in the years before the surrounding landscape was dubbed Silicon Valley.