Sentence examples for individual patron from inspiring English sources

If a nonprofit property bore another name, it usually belonged to an individual patron, a particularly common occurrence at universities.

For years, the Guggenheim's biggest individual patron was Peter B. Lewis, the chairman of the Cleveland-based Progressive Corporation, who donated $77 million to the museum over 11 years.

But in an era when the need for cultural largesse by the wealthy is only expanding, there has been an unusual level of opposition here to the idea of renaming a community resource after an individual patron of the arts.

Instead of having to submit his work for the approval of a powerful individual patron or a conservative academic jury, Picasso had a number of independent dealers competing for the right to buy his paintings, and to find purchasers for them.

But it's not just individual patrons anymore.

Those ventures are often backed by individual patrons known as angel investors, who typically take an equity stake before the venture firms have an opportunity to do so.

Charles E. Young, chief executive of the museum, told The Los Angeles Times that the institution's trustees had contributed $16.4 million more and individual patrons had given $3 million, with the rest coming from other sources.

Some of the money may be taken from the university arts centers' general budgets, including ticket sales and university subsidies, and some is raised from individual patrons and foundations specifically for commissioning.

The musicians, who have hundreds of songs in their repertories, love to chat up the crowd between numbers and share an uncanny knack for repeatedly welcoming individual patrons by their regions of origin.

The remaining funding come from a variety of private sources including foundations, corporations and thousands of individual patrons.

Brewer then seemed to argue that both individual patrons, as well as merchants, should be working in conjunction to ensure that firearms laws were enforced.