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(61) One corollary of that desire was that, apart from the Woodville forfeitures, little patronage became available for redistribution.

(62) The chemical industry must take a more active role instead of just being a supplier or involved in sponsorship or patronage.

(63) His patronage is due to the high recovery rate of hernia sufferers at his tomb.

(64) Eriugena himself was never part of the Carolingian ecclesiastical establishment and worked directly under the private patronage of Charles the Bald.

(65) Dependent on state patronage, Soviet official art was a public, epic, partisan art intended for mass consumption.

(66) Brook was not averse to extending his advice into the heartland of prime-ministerial patronage - the shape and composition of the Cabinet.

(67) He was a hustling precinct worker and brought out the vote, so he was rewarded with a patronage job.

(68) His patronage to confessors is attributed to the large crowds he attracted to the confessionals.

(69) Consequently,[www.Sentencedict.com] his statements about the patronage of Piero's works are generally more probing and trustworthy.

(70) He had a rich father, whose fortune he had slowly demolished through his patronage of the arts.

(71) For the church this surge in royal patronage had damaging effects, pastoral and political.

(72) In painting and music, especially, this kind of patronage was extremely important and lasted for many centuries.

(73) During the seven years of their previous patronage by Next, the brothers have reached the pinnacle of the sport.

(74) The boards and commissions that run these organizations are commonly appointed by ministers and so provide an increase in ministerial patronage.

(75) Service to a king or a great lord was often the key to patronage and status.

(76) In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.

(77) His patronage comes from boiling water spilled on his stomach as a final torture for his unyielding faith before being beheaded.

(78) He minted coins and his patronage of continental missionary activity is a noticeable feature of his reign.

(79) Will operator charges by Railtrack be reflected in higher fares and possible loss of patronage resulting from cross price elasticity?

(80) Moreover, many nonconformists achieved considerable professional reputations and financial gain through private patronage from the native intelligentsia and the foreign community.

(81) There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington 

(82) He is not necessarily a typical patronage worker, but he is not unusual.

(83) His patronage came about when people suffering from rabies were cured at his grave.

(84) Divorced from any clear patronage, western artists were free to look inwards and to ignore the tastes of the masses.

(85) Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants - another aspect of crown patronage.

(86) The flow of patronage towards them continued unabated, and some of their household expenses were financed by the king.

(87) This is deadly for a political machine that lives through patronage.

(88) Some 300,000 people work in state-owned enterprises, and many owe their jobs to political patronage.

(89) Nor had the courts outlawed most patronage hiring and firing and protected most employees from wrongful discharge.

(90) I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench.