Sentence examples for high-level patronage from inspiring English sources

"Camden County government back in the late eighties had been the subject of a lot of ugly newspaper stories about high-level patronage, pinstripe patronage — a lot of bond houses, lawyers," Norcross said, and added, "There's probably some corruption involved".

The first notable achievement of the high-level patronage strategy occurred in September 2008, during the 58th session of the WHO Regional Committee when African ministers of health from meningitis belt countries unanimously adopted the Yaoundé Declaration, committing themselves to introduce "a highly promising candidate meningitis vaccine  …".

In the roughest areas, street toughs had joined with violent groups linked to universities and high-level political patronage networks.

Despite Mr. Bloomberg's personal distaste for gambling — an odd aversion considering he built his fortune supplying financial information to the gamblers on Wall Street — he can't and won't simply pull the plug on OTB, its 1,500 union jobs and its dozens of high-level political-patronage appointments.

In terms of transit use, 80%% of the population of Tokyo uses the subway, making some 2930 million passenger journeys per year (2009 figure) (Ibid), the highest level of patronage anywhere in the world.

This result may have been due to the fact that national sport resources are directed toward the inefficient provinces because of a high level of patronage behaviors among political elites and the mismanagement of sport funds.

We decided to conduct a review of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Nigeria from 2001 because it was around that year that the fast food industry became very popular in Nigeria and started receiving high levels of patronage, especially in cities and towns.

The prime minister's office has also offered to reduce its own powers of patronage thousands of high-level jobs are traditionally in its gift.

We want high-level, high-quality cases".

That's pretty high-level.

No high-level convictions followed.