Sentence examples for this patronage from inspiring English sources

Until this week, there was another player in this patronage payments market: Tugboat Yards.

I long to understand the psychology of this patronage.

This patronage hardly distinguishes McKeon from his colleagues on Capitol Hill.

If, as the protesters demand, this patronage system were ended, Mr Assad's hand would be severely weakened.

Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage?

He argues that without this patronage it would have been impossible to succeed in the murky world of Russian business.

The company claims that this "patronage-based" model leads to a more regular, reliable income for artists, instead of the one-hit wonder, finite campaign around an album release, for instance.

Not every judge participates in this shabby patronage game.

Pity the designers didn't take all this regular patronage into consideration.

Nuhu Ribadu, a former head of Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, has said of this violent patronage system: "It's not even corruption.

This literary patronage was continued to some extent by Muhammad ʿAli Khan, ʿUmar Khan's successor; it ended in 1842 when the khanate was conquered by Bukhara and Mahlarayim was executed by the Bukharan emir Nasrullah.