The untidiness is the anti-patronage Shakman case, the suit filed against the City of Chicago and other local government bodies in 1969.
However, in the context of the aforementioned case, patronage becomes a social form through which actors deal with an unpredictable work environment.
The parties went to court and Dudley, who had secured Thomas Cromwell's patronage, won the case.
Intrigue, obfuscation and patronage have characterised the case.
The Games' organizing committee had hired consultants "as straight cases of patronage," falsified documents to justify contracts, and spent eight hundred thousand dollars to send more than a hundred delegates to Beijing on "a pleasure trip at government expense".
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.
No ties of patronage are known in his case, nor are his connections to the Sufi communities existing in his time very clear.
Ryan then quickly pivoted to the stimulus, which he described as "a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst … What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus?
Like Occupy, Hazare's grand grievance is the wholesale diversion of wealth from the middle class and poor to the unworthy few — in India's case through payoffs, patronage and thievery, in America's through tax and regulatory policies that have expanded the gap between the richest few and everyone else.
RYAN: "The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst.
Certain big matters were absent, like the costly anti-patronage litigation known as the Shakman case.
