Sentence examples for main patron from inspiring English sources

The group relies on Syria to provide a conduit for arms from its main patron, Iran.

Mr. Annan was in Tehran on Wednesday, lobbying Syria's other main patron to back his initiative.

Russia, as President Assad's main patron, has said that decision is one only Syrians can make.

It is also a crucial ally for Israel's main patron, America.

The main patron for his research, after all, is the Defense Department.

Mr. Sadr's main patron is Mr. Haeri, the exiled cleric in Iran.

Guests at the tented camp are its main patrons, but passers-by are also welcomed.

"It tells us something not just about the state of his finances," he added, "but the manner in which he got along with the high aristocracy," the main patrons of Viennese music at the time.

So the station's main patrons will be commuters from New Jersey who are more likely to be impressed by on-time performance, however unlikely, than marble columns, however beautiful.

Israeli analysts see Sheik Nasrallah as the political, rather than military, mastermind of Hezbollah, adept at navigating between the often rival ambitions of the group's main patrons, Iran and Syria, and just as nimble at adjusting to shifts in their policies.

He had been one of the main patrons of a shadowy commodities trader named Boris Birstein and Seabeco, a company of his based in Toronto and Zurich.