Sentence examples for patronage charges from inspiring English sources

Regarding the patronage charges, he said, "My credentials speak for themselves".

Mr. Nyman scoffed at the patronage charge.

Bruce Nyman, communications director for Mr. Suozzi, denied the patronage charge.

Advertising itself as "a new form of commerce and patronage," this company charges a 5 percent fee to anyone who lists with it.

But in the slowly developing Philippines, a single political class with roots in provincial power bases and patronage remains in charge.

"For United States government patronage, our hotels charge room rates only at cost and we do not profit from these stays," the company said. .

That was the way things were done in the 33rd Ward, at least in the days before federal prosecutors brought criminal charges for patronage hiring in 2005.

It was not clear whether the shift was intended to reflect Mr. Bloomberg's hands-off management philosophy or to curtail what critics had charged was patronage.

Villas-Boas' rise has been well documented - the note pushed under his neighbour Sir Bobby Robson's door, the Englishman's patronage, the stint in charge of the British Virgin Islands' team aged only 22 and his work for Mourinho at Porto, Chelsea and Inter - but there is one part of his story that is worth retelling here.

As charges of incompetence, patronage, and war profiteering were leveled against Borden's government, public confidence in him decreased.

Mr. Rigau said the indictment was particularly alarming because although corruption and patronage were not new, the charges suggest something new, a possibility of institutionalized corruption by a governing party.