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Example sentences for: patronage

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However, it has tacitly encouraged the rebels, in the belief that Mobutu's patronage of guerrilla forces in the region is destabilizing.
What Rage for Fame makes abundantly clear is how essential the patronage of powerful suitors and would-be suitors was for Luce, and probably for other career women of her generation as well.
Bin Laden, accused by the United States of masterminding the terrorist bombings of U.S. missions in East Africa last year, is hiding in Afghanistan under the patronage of the Pakistan-supported Taliban regime, Asian Age said.
Stung by charges that his vote was bought, he turned the tables on his accusers and charged them with orchestrating the whole impeachment campaign so as to get their hands on the controls of patronage.
If nothing is done, the House of Lords will persist as a patronage tool for whichever party happens to control the House of Commons.