Sentence examples for patronage over from inspiring English sources

But he has done nothing to renounce his patronage over appointments to the Lords, because this is a party management tool.

With his government post, he controls the police and internal security forces, the granting or withholding of various licenses and patronage over a huge number of public employees.

An older and probably more-wealthy senatorial class, or aristocracy, in the West consolidated its great estates and assumed a form of protection or patronage over the labouring rural classes, depriving the state of desperately needed military and financial services.

For over three decades, as the two sides have engaged in an ugly battle for patronage over a volatile Middle East, Washington has hoped in vain that Tehran would change its ways.

"This marks the end of an era and we thank our customers for their patronage over our 40-year history," Mike Edwards, president of Borders, said in a statement.

In a searing indictment of Fifa's culture of kickbacks and patronage "over two generations", the US Department of Justice charged the 14 with 47 counts of fraud, racketeering and money laundering conspiracies.

"There is a problem of political patronage taking over the programme," says Altschuler. "Most of the studies carried out by the donors community about PROHECO don't recognise that this is happening.

The two coalition partners have squabbled over patronage.

Moreover, the governor had enormous patronage powers over the local agencies of government.

He tried to concentrate patronage rights over ecclesiastical property in his own hands and took rigorous action against the heretics (the Cathari and Waldenses).

Most obviously Brown could have distanced himself from the "cash for peerages" controversy by giving up patronage powers over appointing peers as well as bishops.