Sentence examples for patronage at from inspiring English sources

Patronage at best and kickbacks at worst.

Our dedicated patronage at those places turned out to be a useless investment.

Odds are stacked in favour of incumbents, with all the machinery of power and patronage at their disposal.

The dual attraction of the Manchu rulers to unbridled decoration and to orthodox academicism characterized their patronage at court.

These are some of the quirkier "rewards" devised by Belly, a start-up that creates customer-loyalty programs to encourage repeat patronage at small and medium-size businesses.

He then ran for a successful campaign for mayor on a promise to cut property taxes and stop corruption and patronage at City Hall.

At the very least, detractors say, the government is running patronage mills at taxpayer expense to ensure fealty in Mr. Chávez's base of support.

Closer to home, millions of dollars in patronage are at stake.

By the end of the year, the patronage count at the agency had reportedly reached eighty.

Yet the facts of Muybridge's elite patronage were at odds with the democratic potential of his chosen medium.

"Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage" is at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, through April 10.