patronage

I should have sacrificed my own comfort and not have gained their patronage in return."

There was an end of patronage so far as Johnson was concerned, and it was the beginning of the end of it with others.

The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive.

At the Louvre, August 10, 1628 The superior of the convent of Bethune will place in the hands of the person who shall present this note to her the novice who entered the convent upon my recommendation and under my patronage.

Also, he promised me his patronage, and asked me to come and take tea with him.

Bennet.'-- My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.

Therefore, just like the Democrats before them, they embraced patronage, thereby entrenching the practice for the next 40 years.

The former Negri Sembilan mentri besar said Umno has suffered and left weakened by entrenched political patronage, which has enabled, encouraged and sustained internal corruption.

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah attended new expansion project of Al-Amiri hospital, under patronage of His Highness the Amir.