Sentence examples for official patronage from inspiring English sources
He must have possessed sufficient private means not to be dependent on official patronage.
The likes of COLI and Poly Real Estate Group enjoy official patronage and access to subsidised credit.
He was received in the French Royal Academy in 1754 and soon after began to enjoy royal and official patronage.
Though the country's best-known building is an opera house, for example, the arts have yet to receive as much official patronage as they deserve.
He never came into touch with men of letters or original thinkers; in his official patronage he neglected literature, science, and the arts.
From the 1980s, though, qigong enjoyed a revival, becoming one of a number of traditional beliefs that found ardent followers and official patronage under Deng Xiaoping.
This is a common practice within the Roman Catholic Church, which uses official patronages.
In fashion, publishing, software, film, music and a dozen other creative industries (the jargon, and the frameworks of semi-official patronage), date from exactly this time), traffic flowed heavily down that two-way street.
Until then he had failed to gain official state patronage, and his designs for palaces in Venice, known from the Quattro libri and from drawings, had never found patrons.
The sensibility of the work here is often closely aligned with that of traditional still-life painting, which emerged in Holland in the mid-17th century after the Protestant Reformation brought an end to official church patronage of the arts.
Court officials say patronage in fiduciary appointments has led to widespread corruption.
