Sentence examples for principal patron from inspiring English sources

Fleischmann, who died in 1968, became the company's principal patron.

Francesco Maria became both the painter's principal patron and friend.

In 1949 the Holy See named him the principal patron of the Roman Catholic clergy in Korea.

The duke was Leonardo's principal patron in the 18 years he spent in the Italian city and was known as "the white ermine".

He has reneged on a deal with the United States for a quarter-million tons of food aid, threatened South Korea with fiery annihilation — nothing new there, really — and embarrassed his principal patron, China.

Committee Republicans, energized at the beginning of the hearing by a visit from Senator Trent Lott, the Senate minority leader and Judge Pickering's principal patron, mounted a vigorous defense.

From then on the Bonapartes became their principal patrons.

The Mercers, meanwhile, became Bannon's principal patrons.

And the artist lost his principal patrons when Frederick-Augustus, along with Brühl, withdrew to the safety of his other capital, Warsaw.

Throughout his career Michelozzo was closely associated with his principal patrons, the Medicis, and he followed Cosimo de' Medici into exile at Venice in 1433.

The interior of the club was designed to resemble the hollow of a baobab tree – emblem of the savannah – and cabinet ministers and senior civil servants were its principal patrons.