Sentence examples for patronage only from inspiring English sources

So it stayed circumscribed, benefiting from outside patronage only indirectly, when the sampling technology of international dance-floor music in the late 80's and 90's borrowed some of its grooves.

Remember, this is a nonprofit enterprise that has endured from the era of church and court, through the days of aristocratic patronage, only to arrive in the United States and convince wealthy industrialists and a democratic government that it was worth funding.

He boasted he wanted to "give up patronage", but only after appointing a record 384 peers!

It shows the extent of the patronage not only for this competition but for Twenty20 cricket in general".

Now it's all about patronage – and only the very young are allowed into the golden circle.

The massive inequality in the country has always left it vulnerable to a regime of populist and patronage politics, only avoided through technocratic leaders (within a relatively unified ANC) leveraging the substantial political capital post-1994.

But he was no sooner arrived than ensconced, bringing in his Goodison deputies to replace those already in situ – as regards Jimmy Lumsden and Steve Round, his patronage the only evidence of their suitability.

We then controlled for age, education, wealth and other socio-demographic factors in a multivariate logistic regression model to examine the effects of ethnicity on outcomes related to age at sexual debut, number of lifetime sex partners, comprehensive HIV knowledge, HIV testing and lifetime sex worker patronage (men only).

Participants were not tested for HIV as part of the survey; outcomes used in the study include self-reported history of HIV testing, comprehensive HIV knowledge, early sexual debut, lifetime number of sexual partners and sex worker patronage (men only; questions related to sex work were not included in the women's interview).

The document, entitled State of Capture, explains much of the opposition to Mr Zuma: the belief that his leadership has led to a huge expansion in patronage politics, not only raising moral and legal concerns but damaging the country's capacity to develop.

With no viable opposition, the ANC grew increasingly corrupt as opportunistic figures flocked to the only patronage show in town.