Sentence examples for foremost patron from inspiring English sources

In the Politburo's all-powerful Standing Committee, for example, they suggest that Mr. Bo's foremost patron Zhou Yongkang is tied to China's oil industry, that Jia Qinglin, the nation's fourth-ranked leader, is linked to Beijing real estate and the wife of the prime minister, Mr. Wen, is a major figure in gem trading.

He continued to work in the palace of The Hague until the count's death in 1425 and then settled briefly in Bruges before he was summoned, that summer, to Lille to serve Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, the most powerful ruler and foremost patron of the arts in Flanders.

A promoter of the arts, Urban VIII was the foremost patron of the important Baroque sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, some of whose finest works he commissioned, including the loggias of St. Peter's, Rome, and Urban's tomb in the basilica.

Similarly, St. Paddy's Day isn't about the death date of Ireland's foremost patron saint so much as it is about getting blackout drunk. .

Vatican cultural life has much declined since the Renaissance, when the popes were among Italy's foremost patrons of the arts.

In Rome he also met the Earl of Burlington, the foremost architectural patron of the 18th century in England and the principal promoter of Andrea Palladio's classical building style (Palladianism).

To many who meet him socially, he is first and foremost a major patron of avantgarde art and design.

"The safety and comfort of our patrons is foremost in our minds," Bow Tie CEO Ben Moss told Variety.

The festival, which is in its eightieth year, is first and foremost a religious celebration honoring the patron saint of Naples, and it includes a High Mass and a procession carrying a statue of the saint through the neighborhood streets.

First and foremost, he's Ireland's chief patron saint, responsible in Catholic Christianity for looking after the interests of the country.

Foremost among these were vessels made for Danish patrons.