Sentence examples for usual patronage from inspiring English sources
Continued pressure from international and domestic democracy organizations will be needed to keep Buhari on the democracy track and ensure that Nigeria does not fall back into "business as usual" patronage politics.
The choice of design was not made on the usual basis of patronage.
The details of his administration's patronage scandal, as is usual in such cases, are tedious and unseemly.
The Old Regulars were expert at all the usual forms of graft — doling out patronage, padding registration rolls, harassing unaffiliated voters — and, by aligning themselves with the state's business interests, most notably Standard Oil, they were often able to extend their control far beyond the city limits.
Dennis McNerney was sworn in New Year's Day as Bergen County executive after hitting all the right notes during his campaign: reform, an end to patronage; no more business as usual, new faces and new ideas.
Bute's only other useful contribution to his royal pupil was to encourage his interest in botany and to implant in the court more respect for the graces of life, including patronage of the arts, than had been usual for the past half century.
In a city where patronage is practically a civic duty, this was considered business as usual, despite several reports from the Federal Aviation Administration that criticized the agency, Massport, over security violations at Logan.
But the very definition of a refugee, an asylum seeker or a migrant, takes on more than the usual connotations in a country burdened by a history of sectarianism, political and economic uncertainty, feudal patronage, and more.
Patronage pads the payroll.
