Sentence examples for lavish patronage from inspiring English sources

He continued his grandfather's lavish patronage of art and learning and was said to have spent half of his city's revenues on the purchase of books alone.

"Pedantic censorship to crush the disobedient, lavish patronage to reward the compliant — these were the blunt instruments of the state's cultural policy.

Even so, the league and its teams enjoy the lavish patronage of Russia's industrial giants and the political support of President Vladimir V. Putin's Kremlin, which views sports as an instrument of Russia's domestic and foreign policy.

But, alleged bribes aside, many national and regional football associations have enjoyed lavish patronage from FIFA headquarters, in the form of perfectly legal development funding, cementing support for Mr Blatter over the years.

Bernini enjoyed the lavish patronage of several popes and aristocrats in 17th-century Rome, still manifest today in the abundance of palazzos and public sculptures by this Baroque artist in the heart of the city.

An outside commission's investigation for the committee concluded that the endless feuding between the 123-member board of directors and the 500-member paid staff mainly invites "boobs and incompetents" to the fore in a rudderless, lavish patronage wallow.

Syrian Arabs played a leading part at the sultan's court and Abdülhamid lavished patronage on Sufi orders.

With lavish but enlightened patronage of artists and scholars, Ludovico made the court of Milan the most splendid not only in Italy but in Europe.

The one biography he wrote was Prince Eugen of Savoy (1964), on the great early 18th-century military commander whose lavish and discriminating patronage made Vienna a supreme art centre.

Cameron has been a lavish dispenser of patronage – he even included his barber, Raffaele Claudio Carbosiero, in an honours list two years ago "for services to hairdressing" – and he has revived the idea of granting honours to people explicitly for political service.

Amiable, incompetent, and, inevitably, under heavy attack from those who envied his position, Lerma strove to maintain himself by the lavish dispensation of royal patronage to the high nobility.