After the war, the library found new patrons among wealthy Jews in Britain and the United States.
Mr. Brenner has also sold his ideas to patrons, among them Charles Bronfman, Ronald Lauder and Steven Spielberg.
Thereafter he took to horse racing and executed betting commissions for important patrons, among them the prince regent (later King George IV).
With the passing of princes and their pageantry, the poets were forced to find patrons among the new aristocracy.
On both visits, we were happy to see Turkish-speaking patrons among the diners at Taka, suggesting that the food is as authentic as it is delicious.
And though he had patrons among the aristocracy, he revered Napoleon, their nemesis, and dedicated his Third Symphony, the "Eroica" ("Heroic") to him, only to remove the dedication when Napoleon crowned himself emperor.
The Studio Museum was founded in 1968 by a group of art patrons, among them the Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, then a young lawyer, and the politician and philanthropist S. Carter Burden.
Living a hand-to-mouth existence, and not admitted to Venice's Academy until he was 72, he failed to gain any significant patrons among the more prosperous connoisseurs of his day, either among the local aristocracy or visiting grand tourists.
Using a single location — a run-down, isolated diner — the writer and director, Mark Young, conjures an economical setup: a handful of late-night patrons, among them a cheery salesman (Harold Perrineau) and a luckless cop (Lew Temple), are surprised by news of several grisly murders in a neighboring county.
In the 80's, a taste for the raunchy and outrageous functioned in the fashionable art world very much the way junk bonds functioned in the financial markets, and it was no accident that the artists who produced art of this sort often found their most enthusiastic patrons among the collectors who were the principal beneficiaries of such junk-bond enterprises.
