Sentence examples for notable patron from inspiring English sources

She was also a notable patron of Josiah Wedgwood and the Sèvres porcelain factory.

This was despite Iran's being a notable patron of Gaza's Islamist rulers.Egypt's small Shia community has also felt a chill Sunni wind.

The worldly Paul III was a notable patron of the arts and at the same time encouraged the beginning of the reform movement that was to affect deeply the Roman Catholic Church in the later 16th century.

More interested in ease and pleasure than in affairs of state, this notable patron of the arts left the administration of Saxony and Poland to his chief adviser, Heinrich von Brühl, who in turn left Polish administration chiefly to the powerful Czartoryski family.

One of the king's most substantial achievements was in the cultural sphere; he became a notable patron of the arts.

The great tyrants were notable patrons of the arts and conspicuous builders.

As the modern era began, the English kings Henry VIII and Charles II and the French king Francis I were notable patrons of wrestling.

Notable patrons included Leon Trotsky and Mustafa Kemal, but by the 1950s the building had changed hands and fallen into disrepair, at which point a local Armenian church bought the property.

Other important patrons of Polish culture included the Roman Catholic Church and Polish aristocrats, who likewise supported artists and safeguarded Polish heritage (notable patrons included Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha and a former politician, Janusz Radziwiłł).

"An influx of techies will mean more patrons for the arts," trilled an article at the Silicon Valley news site Pando, but as of yet those notable patrons have not made an appearance.

But Mr. Peters does have one particularly notable political patron: the former Staten Island borough president Guy V. Molinari.