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(31) An influential politician would command patronage, although one didn't like to think of it like that.

(32) But why should corrupt politicians voluntarily give up their powers of patronage and intervention?

(33) The comparatively large sums involved conferred on all these agencies a substantial power of patronage over recipient institutions.

(34) A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss.

(35) John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire.

(36) The Woodvilles' assimilation into the political community was further eased by a less aggressive manipulation of royal patronage on their behalf.

(37) Maurus saved the young Placid from drowning, which may or may not explain bis patronage.

(38) Meanwhile,[http://sentencedict.com/patronage.html] organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.

(39) It is secondary to the political priorities of preserving specific presidents in power and the patronage system associated with them.

(40) Both she and Prince Albert believed wholeheartedly in the value of photography and through their patronage encouraged its early popularity.

(41) It is said that pregnant women were assured a smooth delivery when they drank from his cup, hence his patronage.

(42) The haute bourgeoisie saw themselves as the arbiters of taste and the artistic heirs of the system of patronage.

(43) Most of their business was transacted in the royal court, whose physical setting dictated the rituals of supplication and patronage.

(44) It was a clear case of personal patronage, but he was to remain executive head for thirty-three years.

(45) His access to patronage, too, was gained through privy Seal connections.

(46) In this poem patronage is seen as corrupting; those who strive for it must sacrifice essential human values.

(47) Cleese enlisted Royal patronage to work on the top-selling environment number.

(48) It is widely assumed that a patronage system results in a government run by unqualified people.

(49) Another reason behind the opposition to political patronage is the national disdain for politics and politicians.

(50) The important aspect of Johnson's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage.

(51) Prior to the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747, those nobles who possessed extensive judicial rights controlled their own patronage.

(52) The socialists, not relishing the sudden loss of their patronage, are much identified with the regular street demos.

(53) The judges' deliberate promotion of the Second Empire can perhaps be explained from the standpoint of patronage.

(54) We obviously need some protection against patronage hiring and firing.

(55) Royal patronage and unexpected death also laid the foundation of the power of Edward's third son, John of Gaunt.

(56) The unwise patronage policy of the Santa Anna administration had been very costly.

(57) Many poor people were grateful for anything which lightened their burden, others were resentful of patronage which went with it.

(58) Any work which demonstrated ancient Germanic culture was seized upon and given official patronage.

(59) It was clearly patronage that they were seeking, rather than a confrontation with another class.

(60) The political motives that lay behind this patronage in no way detract from the superb aesthetic achievement that it produced.