Thank you for your patronage.

Political patronage and corruption have also rendered the government incapable of delivering basic health services and jobs.

Lula was accused of corruption and patronage.

In 2009, under the patronage of H.H.

We really thank you for your patronage.

We don t need your patronage or your support.

This perpetuates politics, even democratic politics, as patronage.

Renaissance Florence depended on the patronage of the Medici.

A similar bias arises from the occasional tendency to view political patronage elsewhere as being more corrupt than the same practices at home.

There has also been political patronage bordering on parody, with one recent count putting the government s size at 244 ministers and secretaries of state.

As president, he treated it as a source of patronage, replacing its top officials with political cronies who had little experience in managing emergencies.

As al Saud political and economic control declines, and in the absence of democratic reforms, the regime s policy seems certain to shift from patronage to repression.

The widespread belief among micro financiers is that the curbs were imposed not because the industry was exploitative, but because it offered an alternative to political patronage.

Moreover, few businessmen can make hay in the closed off country without patronage from the state, prompting the question of who might be acting as political cover for the cafe.

Since then, and until the DPJ s victory in the 2008 upper house election, Ozawa was almost always at the center of political battles against the LDP, building an effective political machine by making the most use of the art of patronage.

Both the Chinese Communist Party and the People s Liberation Army could survive without US patronage.

It will invariably recycle retired and failed politicians and be a way station for vast patronage.

Much as Austria s alignment with Germany drove the Slavs to seek Russian patronage at the expense of imperial unity, European alignments with Russia drive the new members to seek US patronage at the expense of EU unity.

So it exploits China s goodwill and national security concerns, and even regards Chinese patronage as its due.

The reciprocal low level violence between Hamas and Fatah is simply a struggle fueled by greed and patronage.

The idealism of India s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for patronage that came with power. The way India s political system evolved has made politics the surest path to wealth.

Though the Chávez revolution has made progress against poverty and inequality, it is hardly sustainable and reeks of patronage.

Four years later, some are calling for his impeachment for what they see as systemic corruption and patronage politics.

Privatisation of state assets has done much for the economy, but has also been used for patronage and empire building.

If Qatar fails to use its resources wisely, it may lose the legitimacy that it needs to underpin its patronage.

If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet s politically liberalizing elements.

on everything ever produced under Islamic or Arab patronage in the past 1,400 years, from Spain to the borders of China.

The idealism of India s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for patronage that came with power.

An independent Catalonia could be very different from today s Spain where economic crisis, opacity and patronage politics are often denounced to be commonplace.

The Patronage Law exempts buildings owned by not for profit entities from paying the IBI, except those that have economic activities submerged in other taxes.

The so called shelter was led by Dr. Antun Najžer, under the patronage of The Female Lineages of the Ustashi movement and Ustashi surveillance services.

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The rural urban divide wedded the grassroots rural population to upcountry patronage networks and vote buying, while elected politicians reaped their rewards through corruption and graft.

In 68 AD, under imperial patronage, they established the White Horse Temple (白馬寺), which still exists today, close to the imperial capital at Luoyang.

In the middle run, high prices lead to expansion of supply and reduced demand, and the price comes down again. At that point producer countries which depend on oil revenues to maintain consumption, political power, and patronage try to raise prices by cutting production, and the cycle resumes.

It is fashionable to mock the bureaucratic minutia of European regulation. But European regulation is as nothing compared to the mountains of national laws and decrees, billions wasted in political patronage, and the colossal state machines that eat up 30 40 of the economic product of Europe's nation states.

To an amazing extent, he reached out to experts in many areas, choosing professionals of impeccable reputations for probity and accomplishment, rather than politicians eager for patronage.