Sentence examples for foreign patrons from inspiring English sources

He has gondoliered them for years, and sends Xmas cards to all his foreign patrons.

His popularity with the Congolese and with his key foreign patrons, Rwanda and Uganda, was short-lived.

If this military misadventure was a surprise for the Georgian leader's foreign patrons, so much the worse.

Linzer_linzer "Oligarchy is the usurpation of power (in our case monopolization of resources) in order to please foreign patrons.

But it also requires that foreign patrons of different groups agree themselves on how a unified command should operate.

Stuck between these incompatible principles, phantom governments tend to point out uncomfortable precedents and double standards and latch on to foreign patrons.

As Syria's main foreign patron, it had vetoed two previous Security Council resolutions aimed at stopping the violence.

While he was arousing fear of Arabs and Scandinavians, he was relying on the support of an actual foreign patron, Sheldon Adelson, the American billionaire and casino operator.

The United States supports the insurgency that has been seeking to depose Mr. Assad, while Russia has been his most important foreign patron.

Maybe all of this will induce China to come in and play foreign patron, to which one is tempted to say, Be our guest.

Now, as Comey prepares to testify before Congress about Trump's request that the FBI halt the investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's ties to Russia, the president is preparing to announce a Cuba policy that would clear the way for Moscow to re-establish itself as Cuba's principal foreign patron.