Sentence examples for through patronage from inspiring English sources

After that, President Emomali Rakhmon consolidated his power through patronage and cash.

He closely attended, through patronage, to the health of the Republican Party.

Mr Romney, a business-school graduate, dislikes the Bulger style of governing through patronage and personality.

McClure ruled, through patronage and punishment, from 1930 to his death in 1965.

Apparently through patronage, Napoleon was promoted to the rank of captain but did not rejoin his regiment.

She learned that she'd got her job through patronage, that Will had bumped a more qualified candidate.

Such men often acquired university education through their family resources, through the patronage of more substantial nobles, or through church influence, particularly support from the pope and his court.

Muslim chieftains gave impetus to the growth of Bengali literature through their patronage of writers and through their efforts to have Sanskrit classics translated into Bengali.

Like Occupy, Hazare's grand grievance is the wholesale diversion of wealth from the middle class and poor to the unworthy few — in India's case through payoffs, patronage and thievery, in America's through tax and regulatory policies that have expanded the gap between the richest few and everyone else.

Slavonia contributed to the culture of Croatia, through art, writers and poets, and through art patronage.

As well as Western museums now collecting art far more globally, these 'new' economies are establishing their own museums – in some cases, such as in the Gulf or Central Asia, through public patronage, in others, such as India or China, through private initiatives.