Many believe that their involvement with the life of the theatre was more than that of passive patronage.
The Ambassador, a man named Bert Fish, was a patronage appointee and rarely visited the Embassy.
Like its neighbours, Thailand suffers from an unhealthy combination of patronage and opaque business activities.
When the government gets right the policies that foster opportunity, rather than patronage, Americans will thrive.
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It's a system of patronage that keeps the money and power literally within the family.
Both inherited their parties from assassinated relatives, and have turned them into patronage-based personality cults.
This vicious cycle of patronage and corruption lies at the root of Turkey's financial ills.
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Washington filters our taxes through a bureaucratic black-hole before spewing out waste and vote-buying patronage.
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It is his first patronage since becoming Master of Magdalene College, at Cambridge University, last month.
He has promised to curb his own powers of patronage but has given few particulars.
There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage.
Mr Zeng is thus exceptionally well placed to expand his extensive network of patronage.
But through British patronage it grew, creating for the colonialists a pliable tribal elite.
The regional boards overseeing the river levees, once a patronage playpen, have been restructured and professionalised.
One hopes that at some point there will be some patronage of the arts proper?
Both Tubman and Tolbert ruled through patronage, doling out jobs and favours in return for support.
Journalism has always been difficult, and the arts have always been based on a patronage system.
Less attractive (but effective) lubricants for democracy include patronage, pork-barrel spending and special-interest voting.
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These included the widespread use of surrogate local forces and the distribution of patronage.
The patronage model of poetry supported the works of such worthies as Virgil, Dryden and Shakespeare.
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But the patronage wing of the LDP could not swallow such fundamental change in Japan.
The chain nets an extraordinary 8 cents on the sales dollar before patronage refunds and taxes.
His victims were mostly from rival tribes, and he showered his own people with patronage.
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Royal patronage brought boffo revenue, since theatergoers sought to see the same plays as the regent.
For the cause of medical progress--or art patronage or university endowments--wealth concentration is a good thing.
But matters are worse in universities, where patronage, cronyism and secure tenure are the rule.
Those two have decided to chase the patronage of people who think as you do.
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Instead, they were talking about government debt and patronage, about bailouts and excessive regulation.
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The union sees this as a back door for patronage, nepotism and even more affirmative action.
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