Sentence examples for major patronage from inspiring English sources
Season tickets, group arrangements, bloc tickets bought by business firms, and theatre clubs constitute the major patronage of such production companies as the People's Independent Theatre (Theater der Freien Volksbühne), dating from 1890 in Berlin.
Coming at a moment when many of the city's elected judges are under the cloud of a major patronage scandal, Mr. Bloomberg's commitment to keeping politics at a minimum when making his own judicial appointments is both welcome and refreshing.
The only time he gets agitated is when he mentions Major's patronage of David Mellor.
Lobbying jobs are a major source of patronage -- a reward for the loyal.
Some Afghan officials and Western analysts have also asserted that the civil affairs teams work too closely with local warlords, fostering the perception that regional commanders, not the central government in Kabul, are the major dispensers of patronage and power in Afghanistan.
Major companions during patronage were family members and then children.
When he went south to take the throne of England in 1603 as James I, he removed one of the major sources of patronage in Scotland.
The result has been seen as a shift "from crown to castle", as the nobility and local lairds became the major sources of patronage.
The departure of James VI to rule in London at the Union of Crowns in 1603, meant that the Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle largely fell into disrepair and the major source of patronage was removed from the country.
The Reformation removed a major source of patronage for art and limited the level of public display, but may have helped in the growth of secular domestic forms, particularly elaborate painting of roofs and walls.
Although the loss of the court as a result of the Union of Crowns in 1603 removed another major source of patronage, the seventeenth century saw the emergence of the first significant native artists for whom names are extant, with figures like George Jamesone and John Michael Wright.
