Sentence examples for primary patron from inspiring English sources
Besides Russia, the primary patron of the two enclaves, only Nicaragua has agreed to recognize them.
American intelligence analysts believe that for years Hezbollah received as much as $200 million annually from its primary patron, Iran, along with additional aid from Syria.
Among the guests at the brunch was Joel Wachs, a former Los Angeles city councilman who is now president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (the primary patron of the Site Santa Fe biennial).
While Iran is the primary patron of Hamas, the two do not enjoy the same seamless relationship that Iran has with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia and political organization that Tehran helped to form.
Cunningham appeared onstage with four of his company's eminences: Carolyn Brown, his magisterial dance partner from the fifties and sixties; Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, his longtime artistic collaborators; and Sage Cowles, his troupe's primary patron.
While the state remained the primary patron of Egyptian literature, absorbing and co-opting anyone it possibly could, many authors escaped prickly Egyptian censors by publishing their books in more lenient Lebanon.
But for the urban immigrants who were the primary patrons of early movies, Anderson's fantasy may well have been their own; without knowing his story, they could identify with his need to wipe the slate clean, to begin again.
In April, the administration urged Syria, a primary Hezbollah patron, to restrain the group, which Washington has classified as a terrorist organization.
He has been the primary Russian patron of the two enclaves, whose ambitions spurred the conflict in August, and he has long required his city to conduct relations with their separatist governments as if they were independent nations.
(Rhee's methods were a major issue in the recent Democratic primary, in which her patron, Mayor Adrian Fenty, was defeated).
The Obama Administration made it clear that the U.S. — Honduras' largest trading partner by far, its traditional patron, and primary military ally — would not regard such a government as legitimate.
