Sentence examples similar to sure patronage from inspiring English sources
To pursue its underground interest in America's lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered.
"Until I know the people," Shopsin explains in "Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin," a cookbook designed by his daughter Tamara and photographed by her husband, Jason Fulford, "until they show me that they are worth cultivating as customers, I'm not even sure I want their patronage".
Make sure to bring business cards and don't be afraid to ask the people you meet for their patronage.
The best way to ensure that is to make sure its members are not given staff or patronage, cars or stipends.
Because Abacha found fuel import licences an effective source of patronage for his cronies, so he made sure that the refineries were not maintained and therefore that Nigeria had to import fuel.
The essential elements of the system were to encompass as many people as possible, keep them happy through patronage and other favours, ruthlessly punish dissenters and make sure the city ran reasonably efficiently.
Like his father, Mr Daley knows the value of patronage and precinct organisations.He also knows the importance of making sure that the city gives a share of its contracts to black firms.
Romney had attacked Democratic challenger Shannon O'Brien for alleged patronage hires in speeches and negative ads. "I want to make sure that those patronage positions where people have been placed in jobs because of who they know, not what they know -- that those are out," Romney told a reporter.
Patronage pads the payroll.
