Sentence examples for not patronage from inspiring English sources

"Not patronage control," the adviser said.

Homeland security is a vital but amorphous concept that demands dedicated experts, not patronage loyalists.

He represented a civil service in which advancement was based on merit not patronage, Henry J. Stern, parks commissioner, said.

America's problem is the contrast between high-minded idealism and low practice.America regards itself as the world's purest meritocracy a country based on talent, not patronage and toadyism.

In arguing that "biodiversity can pay for itself through benign systems of sustainable extraction, where people can receive some equitable share by right, not patronage," Mr Swingland and his co-authors make a compelling case that the best way to reduce the risk of any potential eco-disaster is to embrace market greenery.The future may be brighter than the eco-doomsayers suggest.

But what we are seeing today is not patronage, just patronizing.

But that wasn't patronage, Giuliani says, pointing to Robert Harding as having made a fine deputy mayor.

"These should not be patronage positions," he said.

He insists he did not permit patronage appointments.

Their rule is a vice grip based on sheer terror, not baronial patronage.

Critics complain that he has not spread patronage far enough beyond the Yadavs and Muslims, who constitute the core of his support.