Sentence examples for mere patronage from inspiring English sources

In some ways, the parties are now mere patronage machines: they no longer offer ideas or policies, but just jobs for the boys.This tendency is made worse by the professionalisation of politics, which tends to produce well-meaning but colourless leaders.

Moreover, even as Mr. Cuomo is sprinting away from the state Democratic Party, he's welcoming the endorsement of the Liberal Party, an increasingly disheveled organization that worships at the shrine of patronage and shudders at the mere mention of reform.

Since then he has stayed elected, easily in 1986 and by a mere 1% margin in 1992, by using all the patronage and populist wiles at his disposal.

Rausch explained, "Dirty graft is parasitic, mere larceny, whereas honest graft helps knit together a patronage network that ensures leaders can lead and followers will follow". Mr. Rausch is still on staff.

With reference to developments in Greater Harare in the post-2000 era, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the role of housing cooperatives, meant to serve a technical problem of housing the homeless, has shifted from the mere technical agenda to the political one in which clientilism, patronage and manipulation are the manifestations.

It is much undoubted that what classifies patronage of packaged water as a survival strategy, psycho-satisfaction or a mere show of socio-economic status is more or less subjective differing with the particular prevailing situation.

Tom DeLay is unchallenged as majority whip both because he, too, has powers of patronage and because no one else fancies such an arm-twisting job when the Republican majority is a mere six votes.

Patronage has been poor.

Patronage pads the payroll.

Patronage also helps.

Satisfaction influenced patronage intentions.