Sentence examples for sustained patronage from inspiring English sources

Damascus witnessed the most sustained patronage of religious architecture by women.

If that lead holds, he could return the PRI to power a dozen years after voters swept it out of office and ended 71 years of single-party rule sustained by patronage and corruption.

CPC and other conservancies are rightly focused on sustaining patronage and work hard toward that goal.

Mr. Mugabe's government is so short of cash that it is having trouble sustaining its patronage of key constituencies, especially of the soldiers and the police officers who have helped keep him in power.

Analysts and Western diplomats said at the time that Mr. Mugabe might lose his grip on power if he were unable to sustain the patronage he had deployed for decades.

I don't intend any exaggeration here, because Amanda has made it her mission to smash the paradigms of the music industry and create and sustain a patronage-based working business model.

Princely patronage sustained him all his life.

Less orthodox religious communities among the Sufi orders also benefited from his generosity; hospices, pensions for the poor, and extensive public works related to the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina were created or sustained by his patronage.

At Ballet Theater's inception, five years after the first precursor to New York City Ballet, the company was a glittering enterprise devoted to producing the old and encouraging the new, sustained by the patronage of Lucia Chase, a founder and dancer with the company.

Jackson sustained his Democratic Party with patronage.

This was the beginning of the patronage that sustained and controlled cricket through the 18th century.