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.
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.
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.
The board decided to build a real museum, and a committee led by Richard Rosenthal, the primary patron of the new building (it is officially the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center), conducted an international search that was narrowed down to Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, and Hadid.
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.
Since the uprising began in Syria in March 2011, Hamas has closed its offices in Syria, its primary patron, and tried to establish a close and direct connection to Mr. Morsi of Egypt, who was a leader within the Muslim Brotherhood before his election.
Working with a group of twenty-five other businessmen, he had begun sponsoring the Charity Organization Society in the late 1870s and soon became the primary patron of its Indiana chapter.
He helped found the organization that became the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, was the primary patron of Indiana's branch of the Charity Organization Society, and personally funded the creation of the city's children's hospital which was later expanded by the state to become the Riley Children's Hospital.
