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Most ambassadors are selected from career Foreign Service officers, but many are appointed through political patronage.patronage = political appointment in return for political support
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Private patronage of musicians and artists was common at that time.patronage = support
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Their loyalty program gives rewards in return for continuing patronage.patronage = customer business
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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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We do owe something to parentage and patronage. (source)patronage = support or favor given
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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 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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What would I put up with if I could win a powerful noble's patronage? (source)
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I regret to say, they did not honor me with their patronage.† (source)
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It was more like feudalism than patronage, but top artists lived well and seldom complained.† (source)
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A few years later, when Robbie won his scholarship to the local grammar, Jack Tallis took the first step in an enduring patronage by paying for the uniform and textbooks.† (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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So, too, did the immense patronage and public money that were his alone to dispense.† (source)
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