Sentence examples for privileged patrons from inspiring English sources
Centuries of votive candles, kisses from privileged patrons and concealment from invaders have taken their toll too.
Library stacks were generally closed to all but the most privileged patrons, so shelf browsing was not considered of importance.
Lady Ottolin e Morrell, D. H. Lawrence's privileged but republican patron, found the whole thing a "hateful" display, and even its enthusiasts had to have felt modernity creeping in around the edges: a motion had been introduced in Parliament to ban anyone from flying an airplane over the central city during the ceremony.
Well-to-do secular families who serve liquor in their big city homes nervously talk of their servants "doing a Qadri," voicing a fear that the flotilla of help that is common among the privileged will turn on their patrons.
Rwabugiri conquered several smaller states, expanded the kingdom west and north, and initiated administrative reforms; these included ubuhake, in which Tutsi patrons ceded cattle, and therefore privileged status, to Hutu or Tutsi clients in exchange for economic and personal service, and uburetwa, a corvée system in which Hutu were forced to work for Tutsi chiefs.
My family visits our library not just as patrons, but as members of a privileged club.
Unusually for a New York nightclub, black patrons are not just welcomed but privileged with the best seats in the house.
Like his patron, Cardinal Wolsey, he did not have a privileged upbringing but had talent and ambition.
State-owned companies and their government patrons, which have benefited from cheap, free-flowing loans from state-owned banks and privileged access to land and natural resources, are likely to resist shifts that would expose them and the banks to stronger competition from the private sector, experts said.
