But it does keep the West marginalized in that part of the Caucasus precisely at a time when Washington and Brussels should be promoting alternatives to the all-too-familiar system of great-power clientele-ism and competition.
This observation may reflect a number of factors, including higher purchasing power among the urban clientele, and higher operational costs in the usually larger urban shops.
It has been loyal to him ever since, possibly because he's not a controlling showboater making claims to exclusivity or competing with his clientele for star power.
Average a la carte €40 This dressy brasserie with a clubby clientele of local power-brokers, bourgeois families out for a special occasion, and slightly furtive couples coming in for a good feed, is the place to come for bouillabaisse in Marseille.
Fourth, structural funds should be used to improve the competitiveness of the economy, not serve the political clientele of the party in power.
Grunneger Power and Lochem Energie have a relatively small clientele, and their objective is to grow and to ensure a solid financial basis for their organizations.
The solution is not more taxes to pay for poor quality services and over-staffed state organizations, the result of years of clientele politics in which the party in power appointed its friends to taxpayer-financed jobs.
Using esoteric precepts adapted from Jungian psychology, he and Phil Stutz, a psychiatrist who is his mentor, have developed a program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious and address complaints common among their clientele: writer's block, stagefright, insecurity, the vagaries of the entertainment industry.
Winton vehicles were known for their luxury and power; the Vanderbilt family was among the brand's well-heeled clientele.
But then again, he added, the jitney serves as a conduit between two locations of power and privilege, while the train has a more middle-class clientele.
Paraná succeeded because, as founder and leader of the Conservative Party, he "had enormous charisma and a broad personal clientele in the Chamber" and "could (and did) dispense power, prestige, and patronage".
