Sentence examples for big patrons from inspiring English sources

He had presented the court with thousands of cases of electoral fraud that had helped the government candidate, Victor Yanukovich, who was backed by the outgoing president, Leonid Kuchma, and Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin.Mr Yanukovich and his two big patrons had at first insisted that the official results, showing him supposedly winning by three percentage points, were fair.

He had presented the Supreme Court with thousands of cases of electoral fraud that had helped the government candidate, Victor Yanukovich, who was backed by the outgoing president, Leonid Kuchma, and Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin.Mr Yanukovich and his two big patrons had at first insisted that the official results, showing him supposedly winning by three percentage points, were fair.

"I was a big Patron customer," said White, who reported to camp at 228 pounds.

In addition, women are among the biggest patrons and collectors of Middle Eastern art.

Agents from the United States Postal Inspection Service arrested Mr. Esmerian, 70, a former board president of the Museum of American Folk Art and one of its biggest patrons, on Monday morning.

He had been its board president from 1977 to 1999, as well as one of its biggest patrons, and he had promised to donate his collection of folk art, including a version of Edward Hicks's "Peaceable Kingdom".

The symphony's concert hall, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which opened in 2006, was saved from the auction block earlier this summer when one of the symphony's biggest patrons, Martha Ingram, stepped forward to stave off foreclosure.

For several years the museum displayed a painting from Edward Hicks's "Peaceable Kingdom" series, a promised gift from Ralph O. Esmerian, one of the museum's biggest patrons and its board president from 1977 to 1999.

It's a very Vezzoli moment, involving as it does sex and glamour (he is a favourite with the fashion crowd, one of his biggest patrons being the woman to whom he refers as "my friend Mrs Prada").

If you were an artist, you had PATRONS, and the biggest PATRON was the church, and in Italy, that was the Vatican.

The biggest patron of the diamonds is the N.Y.