Sentence examples for declining patronage from inspiring English sources

Monks burned themselves to protest declining patronage from the ruling classes or to lament invasions.

It cited declining patronage and rising operating deficits among the reasons for its request.

Nationalist rhetoric also resonates with increasingly xenophobic populations, thus providing an alternative way for elites to mobilize supporters in the face of declining patronage resources.

Hardly a week goes by without news that another historic gay or lesbian bar is shuttering, whether due to gentrification, declining patronage, or some combination of the two.

The Capitol Limited, in common with most name trains in the U.S. by the mid-1950s, steadily steadecliningining patronage as the traveling public abandoned trains in favor of airplanes and the automobile.

The traditional source of Buddhist patronage had dwindled with declining trade.

LS Lowry, between 1955-76 Mancunian painter LS Lowry was particularly steadfast in his refusal of patronage, declining pretty much every honour they could offer him, from an OBE to a knighthood, between 1955 and 1976.

Furthermore, in an example of life imitating art, pre-eminent Los Angeles restaurant Morton's fulfilled the book's titular prediction by declining her future patronage.

Scottish government data showed that while the number of air, rail, ferry and car travellers all increased, bus patronage declined steeply.

With the construction of the ALCAN (now Alaska) Highway and the replacement of the ferry with a bridge downstream, traffic moved away and patronage declined.

As union membership has declined, old-school patronage has broken down, and tech companies have disrupted industry after industry, fixing escalators for a living is less sexy than ever.