Sentence examples for state patron from inspiring English sources

Stripped of its state patron, the Berliner Ensemble had to turn to the West Berlin authorities for funding.

But the biggest surprise came this month when the Ministry of Communications, COSCO's state patron, announced that it was cutting its ties to the shipping company.An independent board of directors is to be set up, and its chairman will be Chen Zhongbiao, COSCO's longtime president (another ex-captain, who survived much of the cultural revolution by sensibly remaining at sea).

"This creates plausible deniability for powerful Kremlin figures, but it also creates space for freelancers to trade on the name of a state patron".

At the C.I.A., the holdover director, George J. Tenet, was pushing the idea of "stateless" terrorism, which implied less, not more, emphasis on the role of state patrons.

The sun disc appears in connection to one of the state patrons (for example, under Peribsen's predecessor Raneb the sun was connected to Horus); under Peribsen it was connected to Seth.

They also express confidence in the benign power of the state as patron.

Smith said there were at least two bars in the Pacific Northwest state where patrons were using pot.

The king, as the head of state and the patron of Buddhism, was expected to be both a conqueror and one who renounced the world.

That despair is accompanied by anxiety and fear that momentum is moving in favor of the more radical players, like Hamas and its patron state, Iran.

Until early this year, the town attorney was Paul M. Weiner, a law parter of Mr. McGreevey's political patron, State Senator Raymond J. Lesniak.

"Access to justice is one of the original pillars of the welfare state," Diane Abbott, a patron of Hackney Community Law Centre and local MP told supporters.