Sample Sentences for
patronage
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    Guiteau was insane and assassinated President Garfield because he believed Garfield cheated him out of a political patronage job. He thought he was owed the job for giving a speech encouraging others to vote for Garfield.
    patronage = favor for political support
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    Quite apart from his own curiosity about the island in Costa Rica, Grant understood that, if John Hammond asked for his help, he would give it. That was how patronage worked—how it had always worked.  (source)
    patronage = the relationship between someone who donates money and someone who receives the donation
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    The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.  (source)
    patronage = donations of money
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    I could speak to Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat as though she were not in any way connected with Lieutenant Awn, as though Lieutenant Awn had had no anxieties or hopes or fears about future patronage from her.  (source)
    patronage = support or favor given
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    What would I put up with if I could win a powerful noble's patronage?  (source)
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    We do owe something to parentage and patronage.  (source)
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    What was more, without Nobu's patronage, I was no longer invited to Iwamura Electric's parties, which meant I hardly stood any chance at all of seeing the Chairman.  (source)
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    I regret to say, they did not honor me with their patronage.†  (source)
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    In the ten years I had been in the kingdom, I had progressed from Billy's subject of patronage to tutor, to confidant, to friend, but never did I pretend to understand this disheveled enigma.†  (source)
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    Peking switched its patronage to the newest, most militant faction of the CPI(M)—the Naxalites—who had staged an armed insurrection in Naxalbari, a village in Bengal.†  (source)
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    They, however, which is to say the owner's daughter, who was at the desk when Alessandro departed, had no need of his patronage.†  (source)
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    Patronage does not trouble me when it is well meant.†  (source)
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    He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.†  (source)
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