Sentence examples for reliable patron from inspiring English sources

He has no financial interest in the restaurant, but is clearly a reliable patron.

Just as in the 1950s, when Egypt turned to the Soviet Union after the West rebuffed pleas to finance the Aswan dam, there is talk in Cairo of finding a more reliable patron.

Since taking the helm at CIT three years ago, Mr. Peek, who with his wife, the New York Sun business columnist Liz Peek, is a fixture on Manhattan's social circuit, turned CIT into a reliable patron of the arts and relocated the company from an office park in Livingston, N.J., to a flashy modern tower on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

There have been cuts in documentary budgets almost everywhere, and one of Britain's most reliable patrons, Channel 4, is under pressure.

Crowdfunding, of course, is not the same as pre-ordering from a large established company – 'backers beware' is the only reliable motto patrons of the funding method can reasonably expect to trust.

"With meager resources, an inadequate military culture and a weakening, less-than-reliable Soviet patron, Syria was in no position to maintain its policy of conventional parity.

As formerly reliable employers and patrons struggle to pay their own bills, artists have been forced to intensify their hunt for new fund-raising strategies.

Mirth gives customers discounts and in turn gives retailers a reliable line of communication to dedicated patrons.

Taking the research methods course increases LIS practitioners' research interest and assists them by helping them critically evaluate published literature and apply it at work, provide better assistance to library patrons, produce valid and reliable data to facilitate decision making, identify problems at work and design and implement studies to solve them, and write grants and for publication.

George but was born in AD 280 in Turkey or Palestine, according to the most reliable sources – and it was not until 1552 that St George was adopted as the sole patron saint of England.

Such is the public hunger for reliable information he is treated, on the rare occasions he is recognised in public, as a celebrity – the patron saint of fact-checking.