Sentence examples for Government patrons from inspiring English sources
But the issue is whether sanctions against Liberia alone are sufficient, when rebels and their government patrons in the region share responsibility for the mayhem.
While Washington, Brussels and Beijing are all saying now they want a negotiated settlement, Chinese solar companies and their many local government patrons are divided on what a settlement should look like.
He was boasting to friends that government patrons had secured him the leadership post at Fiji Hardwood, a new, government-owned entity set up to exploit the maturing mahogany plantations.
State-owned companies and their government patrons, which have benefited from cheap, free-flowing loans from state-owned banks and privileged access to land and natural resources, are likely to resist shifts that would expose them and the banks to stronger competition from the private sector, experts said.
The museum's disgruntled employees, embroiled in unhappy negotiations over which jobs will be cut, place most of the blame on a management they say has behaved foolishly, failing to plan properly for the future, and displaying an arrogance that has alienated its government patrons.
Birstein rewarded his government patrons lavishly.
But the school has little viability as a model for higher education, since it depends on the extraordinary largesse of a government patron.
It gives new businesses a chance to replace old ones, but it also dooms those new businesses to fail unless they can keep on innovating (or find a powerful government patron).
Among the groups for which Mr. Seabrook served as government patron were the Bronx African-American Chamber of Commerce, the New York African-American Legal and Civic Hall of Fame, and the African-American Bronx Unity Day Parade.
Most are built up over time, then bequeathed to a grateful public by monarchs, popes, governments, patrons or artists themselves.
Ours is not an era when the government, private patrons, professional organizations or the press can provide architects with cultural connective tissue or unite them behind common causes.
