How To Use Patron In A Sentence

But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking. Times, Sunday Times

His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
Breads, pastries, rice and legume dishes were on display for the viewing and tasting pleasure of interested patrons.
"Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
He noticed the curious stares of the regular patrons of the inn.
Now we had been taken notice of, put forward, and patronized, in undeniably genteel society. Oldtown Folks
Tuesday at 3 p.m. place-holders started showing up outside the restaurant Galatoire's to stand in line so their well-heeled patrons can enjoy trout amandine and souffle potatoes Friday during the celebrated pre-Fat Tuesday fest. Archive 2005-02-01
The patrons' tables are constantly resupplied with clear, cool, tart pomegranate juice and hot, flat white bread extracted with long-handled wooden spatulas from the ovens through openings in the walls.
Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
She could barely pay the rent off of the measly tips that the patrons were giving, and her wages were too low to provide her with any material comfort.
In contrast, Princess Sirindhorn, his sister, enjoys a saintly image as a patron of charity.
Without the patronage of several large firms, the festival could not take place.
It's that patronizing tone of hers that I can't bear.
Third, "patronizing" is an understandable complaint but I do have honest respect and admiration for most people at TT. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
His relationship with his patroness was a comfortable and easy one, and he did not hesitate to ask directly, "Will he indeed find the gentlewoman he's seeking at Elford? The Confession of Brother Haluin
In an attempt to divert the resulting social unrest, Stalinist bureaucrats and communalist demagogues fomented nationalist sentiments while seeking patrons among the major powers.
Also patron of beggars, hermits, horses, the physically disabled, and the woods.
We thank you for your patronage.
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst. Menachem Rosensaft: Finding Common Ground
Andrew Carnegie has been called the patron saint of compassionate capitalism.
Others include Vontu and Patron Systems, whose software also detects potentially explosive e-mail and messages and either allows senders to "remediate" them or takes action like blocking messages from being sent. Stop That E-Mail!
Watersports on the beach are well patronised, although most people choose simply to bake in the sun.
Leonardo clearly believed that wealth, patronage, and political power lay in the courts to the east of mainland Europe.
The organisers thank all who patronised the function and also everyone who donated prizes for the raffle.
Early modern patronage came as before from courts, churches, aristocratic, and merchant families, from religious orders and confraternities.
The year is filled with important religious events, and all localities are identified with patron saints who are celebrated, somewhat competitively, with fireworks and festa pageantry, including processions.
African youth are caught between challenging authoritarian regimes they inherited and relying on the patronage networks within the national structure and its local interstices.
It seems more likely, however, that our culture of cleanliness is what does us in when it comes to welcoming dog patrons in our nation's eateries. Should we be more like the French and invite dogs to dinner?
A: It makes sense to patronize a travel agent.
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
Later, Daley would shrink civil service and expand the patronage army.
What they hate is being patronised by phonies.
Does Mr. Somin believe that it should be legal for a private restaurant owner to refuse service to a potential patron because the patron is an African American? The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The patrons responded favorably, and I was glad to see some repeat customers for our performance.
A chance encounter in Moravia had provided him with a patron who was willing to fund his studies.
Many times I offered cakes and fruit, especially to my patron Goddess Artemis, protectress of children.
Emperor of Rome(69-79) who brought prosperity to the empire, reformed the army, was a patron of the arts, and began the building of the Colosseum.
The king's patronage as well as his jurisdiction were advanced and defended by prohibitions.
Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.
The patrons really went wild when Bunji did a bit of very fast chanting, a style that is known as triple-tongue. TrinidadExpress Today's News
The third patron to enter the bar was a Thick Dublin Jackeen, who swaggered into the bar and yelled, "Alrigh' Mate, give us a pint o'cider. Hey,is tha' Jaysus over thair?" The barman nodded, so the Jackeen told him to give Jesus a pint of cider too.
I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
Mr. Slope had to explain, not without blushing for his patron, that there was no champagne.
The plan has raised concerns among librarians about their jobs and among library patrons, who fear that creating a circulating library in the main branch, now a noncirculating research library, would result in fewer books being available. NYT > Home Page
He's been an occasional patron of the county lockup too, in case you hadn't heard. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
She has been regarded as a patron saint of hares ever since.
Patrons remained in the superior social position, even if they failed to reciprocate their clients' public bestowals of loyalty and honor.
As a minister and educator to the hill farmers of north Alabama, Pickens was unbeholden to Bourbon patronage, and he was soon to wield his own printing press.
Footballer Joe Cole has been announced as a new patron of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
Probably more significant is the fact that Brown was one of the many neutral names adopted by clansmen who wanted to be rid of their politically incorrect Gaelic patronymics.
I was surrounded by backslapping, laughing patrons.
We need to take psychiatrically labeled people in our communities seriously, not patronize or pathologize them.
Having again experienced, in November 2006, the joy and emotion of the personal and blessed participation of Your Holiness in the patronal feast of Constantinople, the commemoration of the St. Andrew the Apostle, the First Called, I set out "with a joyous step" from Fener in the New Rome, to come to you to participate in your joy in the patronal feast of Old Rome. Archive 2008-06-29
French literary patron noted for her correspondence with Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Horace Walpole.
What they hate is being patronised by phonies.
I now write for this magazine regularly, and this month being the patronal month of the Precious Blood, I was able to research and write about that, and the tradition of the Holy Grail, and Joseph of Arimithea...go on, get a copy. Archive 2008-07-01
The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
However, she's a patron of the hunt and, insomuch as she fills that roll, she's kind of outmatched by an existing goddess. Deity of Your City
The long, narrow proportions of the 2,600 sf Patisserie is reinforced by a floating ceiling running the length of the interior, drawing the patron in from Queen Street to the depths of the kitchen.
You did mention Saint Thomas Aquinas, patron of the university, and you know he would have syllogized your argument right into the dust bin and has with his Summa Theologica.
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington
The West maintained a system of state, industrial, and private patronage.
My favorite Red Lion patrons were Avery and her marra, Avery, a couple with the only similarity, besides the same name of course, being that they both went to the same school without ever knowing each other.
Count Mirabeau is a most wonderful man, but he is a more than questionable character; even if you marry him, your discretion may very reasonably be called in question, but terms of intimacy, except with that view, cannot for a moment be tolerated; - to talk of friendship for such a man is nonsense, unless, like the good old duchess, you had had a tendresse for the father, which made you patronising for the son. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
To his rescue, to head off any eviction warrants, comes Mrs Whatsername, from Whatever Company, complete with a patronising understanding smile.
Chinese lady well known as a munificent patron of the faith, and I believe another at Nanking, but I do not know if it is complete or not [757]. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
J'espere que je ne vais pas passer pour un gros fumiste en ayant refuser l'heure supplementaire que ma patronne m'a proposé ... c'n'est pas que j'ai refusé par faineantise mais juste parce qu'elle m'a prevenu trop tard et mon pere m'attendais dehors pour me ramener ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
On the other hand since the system of the patronage of the arts had collapsed and foreign rulers were not interested in taking over the responsibility, the role of the princely states became crucial.
The word " pattern " is derived from the same root as the word patron.
The nine-month expedition, whose patron is the Prince of Wales, is one of the most adventurous non-military trips by Service personnel.
It has more than once been remarked in England that the old-fashioned amateur -- patron and critic, _kenner_ -- is dying out, and that his modern substitute must not only choose, but experiment -- not only admire, but be admired. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
Earlier this week, police canvassed patrons of a rural general store and a doughnut shop northwest of the city, where two calls were made to Cecilia's home from pay phones on the morning of her disappearance.
Also patron of good weather and rain; he is invoked against bad luck and plague.
Sandalwood mafias thrive due to the political patronage.
Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap.
The Venetian government and the confraternities were the most significant patrons, and their commissions to Venetian artists created a Venetian stylistic tradition.
The proliferation of narrowly based mutual aid societies and festas (feste, or feast days) honoring local patron saints were manifestations of these tendencies.
And other black arts organizations had willingly shared their patron lists.
As patron of the charity Age Concern, he attended the launch of its Business Pledge campaign to encourage employers to recruit the over-50s.
For example the scene where Harry is creating the huge patronus speel. New Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Photo and Early Romance Buzz! Updated! « FirstShowing.net
It was dedicated to Roman statesman Gaius Maecenas, who had become Virgil's patron.
It was founded in 870 as a cooperative farm and temperance center and named for its patron, Horace Greeley. Population, '0,53'.
Handicraftsmen lost their patrons who used to give them material help and encouragement.
Strict economy was imperative during the days which followed and it became no uncommon occurrence for Andy P. Symes to whisk Augusta into a caravansera where the gentlemen patrons ate large, filling plates of griddle cakes with their hats on. The Lady Doc
Also patron of poets. Feast day, November 23.
Cannily, the government is turning patron.
So he compromised on a very exclusive hotel patronized by legislators who had money of their own, by many of the titled attaches of the embassies, and by families that came during the season with the hope of edging their way into official society. The Slim Princess
Consumers who patronized the T'Owd Lane store were assured of unadulterated food, true measure, and fair prices.
If his nibs happens to be a regular patron, increase the aforementioned bowing and scraping a hundredfold.
Every trade took a holiday on the day of its patron saint.
Making the transition from ground to air was a hit-and-miss affair and required the patronage of an interested senior officer. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
But those stinkpots just happened to belong to very powerful political patrons (some of whom now sit on his cabinet, like the Treasury Secretary).
But Lord Hoyle - who for many years represented Nelson and Colne and whose son Lindsay sits for Chorley in the Commons - said it was essential to get rid of the last vestiges of hereditary patronage.
Stephen Garnett, editor of This England magazine, said: "We're incredibly disappointed that English people are afraid of displaying the St George's Cross on our patron saint's day.
VATICAN CITY, 7 OCT 2009 (VIS) - During his general audience, held this morning in St. Peter's Square, Benedict XVI focused his catechesis on St. John Leonardi, patron of pharmacists, the 400th anniversary of whose death falls on 9 October. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog
The structure was intended as a chapter house, with a chapel situated behind the altar where the family of the patron was permitted to bury their dead.
Also patron of lost souls and mariners.
If you happened to be patronising the inns of Kendal on Friday, you no doubt will have noticed a rather merry group of women dressed head-to-toe in pink.
I think we really do need a well-known patron to get our work recognised, preferably somebody who loves Labradors!
The tramp of those pale feet might interrupt the flow of his patronising patter.
Stephen Garnett, editor of This England magazine, said: "We're incredibly disappointed that English people are afraid of displaying the St George's Cross on our patron saint's day.
I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized. Incorruptible and Forever
If you want to comment upon what I say, please do me the courtesy of actually reading it, avoiding shoe-horning your own personal axe to grind into it and maybe not coming over quite so patronisingly. on March 2, 2010 at 8: 49 pm inspectorgadget I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
She has authored articles that range in topics from pilgrims’ maps to devotional arts, gender and ethnicity issues in Buddhist patronage, cults of saints in Asian traditions, and images of Buddhist cosmographies.
His work could have leaked out all over the place despite his notorious dislike of releasing it to patrons. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
In 1899 the Witmark brothers published The First Minstrel Encyclopaedia and The First Minstrel Catalogue, which “covered every want of the amateur quite as well as the mastodonic Sears, Roebuck catalogue covers the needs of its vast patronage.” A Renegade History of the United States
Also patron of childbirth, the falsely accused, midwives, and pregnant women.
She smiled at Lady Eileen, but not patronizingly, because a mysterious instinct told her that the plain, pleasant young girl in Irish tweed was a "swell. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
Also patron of job-related stress and wine merchants.
So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash. Arise Nobel Laureate Salmond!
The tone of the interview was unnecessarily patronizing.
Patronage and rolling the dice is replaced by good old democracy. Archive 2008-09-01
Reed's generous patronage of contemporary American artists was exceptional in the early nineteenth century.
Spanish pueblos, from hamlets to large cities, and many neighborhoods within population centers, all have patron saints each of whose days occasions a public festival, or fiesta.
Among these people, a veneer of tolerance masks a deep-seated attitude of superiority and is very patronising.
As the daughter's patronymic appears immediately after her name, so the same patronymic should also appear in column III immediately after her mother's name, here as husband.
This sumptuous bauble, appropriately named the Tor Abbey Jewel, was doubtless made for a wealthy patron.
Brixton Base, whose patron and "champion" is Lee Jasper and whose director is his close friend Errol Walters, received £535,000 from the LDA over two years to start a "creative training hub. Archive 2008-01-01
Also patron of farriers, garage workers, and steel workers.
In both cases, the rights of the patron and of the presentee were challenged peremptorily; that is to say, in both cases, parishioners objected to the presentee without reason shown. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
An officious man forced me to wait by the door as another patron was seated.
The patron is a nondescript in late middle age who shakes his head.
But any further inquiry along those lines would have disclosed that the ISI was an original patron of the Taliban, a fact "knowable" by anyone yet inconvenient for the ISI's senior partner in Langley, Virginia, to admit. Aural History
Most of the 71 subjects studied by Patronek met criteria for self-neglect.
Also patron of infants and lost souls.
Politically he was naïvely ambitious and factious; he owes the epithet ‘Good’ only to his patronage of men of letters, including Lydgate and Capgrave.
Patronage is a potent force if used politically.
There are no booking arrangements, so it is advisable for patrons to come early and get seats.
The committee would like to thank their patrons without whose support the cost of publishing the annual magazine would be prohibitive.
Also patron of kings and carvers.
He smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light.
If a patron throws a bar stool, Pat will at least have experience at dealing with it.
Here, then, Alberti is speaking to would-be patrons and laying the groundwork for enlightened and responsible artistic commissions.
Also patron of academics, chastity, pencil makers and schools.
Royal patronage in China certainly had an aesthetic edge, so essential to the nourishment of art, even if generated by peculiar foibles.
This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge.
Smart people who appeared sneered and patronised the audience. Times, Sunday Times
In late medieval Christianity, Michael together with St George became the patron of chivalry, and the patron of the first chivalric order of France, the Order of Saint Michael of 1469.
At this time it was necessary for scientists to obtain patronage from their kings, princes or rulers.
You are the patron saint of life, your wisdom and sincerity to hold up the sun life, your selfless sacrifice life, heal the wounded bear bitter hardships, pain.
The added revenue can be invested in new schools or health-care clinics in areas where education and medicine are scarce; it can subsidize short-term make-work projects to appease the angry unemployed or patronage networks that control dissent at the local level; it can finance the construction of better roads and bridges to open internal trade; it can bankroll the imposition of martial law. The J Curve
His career epitomizes the interactions between the obligations of patron and client and the public service under the old administrative system.
Bar owners and restaurant owners are complaining of a decrease in revenue, as people are staying home and not patronising the establishments.
France, more so Paris, is known for appreciation and patronisation of finer things of life.
The 1914 Act, among other provisions, deprived the Welsh bishops of their seats in the House of Lords, and abolished private patronage.
Of the half-dozen or so charities who enjoy her patronage, most will be aware of Booth's public skills as a communicator.
The cartoons inject humour, while the writing is crystal-clear and direct - it never relies on silly jokes and is never patronising.
The gifts are not brought by Santa Claus Nicholas who in the Hellenic hagiology is the patron saint of sailors. Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Yes, Virginia, Hellenes Have Christmas Traditions
What has made him invulnerable as patron saint, however, is his saltire symbol on our flag, the sign of our nationhood.
Only the most determined and wealthy supermarket-haters will continue to patronise the small shops that are trying to make a go of it again.
Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote.
In two of them the outcome was in fact chosen by the patron - the broker land agents.
Public transport patronage in Sydney and Melbourne more than quintupled between 1890 and 1930 but slumped in the 1930s.
When the patrons at his restaurant would like to indulge in a decadent potation, they will have to choose between Dom Perignon and Krug.
V.F. Philippus_; the meaning, according to the older interpretation, will be: "Philippus beseeches M. Holconius Priscus, duumvir of justice, to favor or patronize him;" whereas the true sense is: Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Performance after scintillating performance emitted from audiences enormous peals of laughter, convulsions and from one patron in particular - very, very audible heaving.
But due to lack of finance and patronage, the students lost interest in the art.
Every community (rural or urban) has its own patron saint who is honored with processions and fiestas every year.
The patron of the bar was ejected for creating a disturbance.
Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.
This made them relatively easy prey for older party leaders who had patronage to give or withhold. THE GUARDSMEN
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
Originally he produced engravings after drawings he owned, or drawings that were owned by his patrons. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
She listened to their complaints and she offered some criticism of her own but she was never patronizing or condescending.
Alban, protomartyr of Britain and patron of my parish church. Archive 2005-06-01
This year, the firm has found another work by the artist - a depiction of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and patroness the arts.
Now, call me naive / unobservant / clueless, but I didn't realise that Qurious was designed for a slightly less heterosexual patron than I. I simply assumed the owner was rather indecisive on choice of colour scheme.
Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour. Harry's Place
We would like to thank all our patrons for supporting us.
St Nicholas is the patron saint of children.
There is racing paraphernalia splattered everywhere including a racecard from the May Leopardstown meeting on the front of which the cigarette makers Players-Wills ‘wish all patrons good racing and good smoking’.
He was perhaps the crookedest lawyer I had ever come across; it still smarted that eighteen months before I had been forced to abandon a case against him through the ruthless machinations of his patron, Richard Rich. Excerpt: Revelation by C.J. Sansom
Leaders of other parties have powers of patronage and can select their own people in positions.
Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
At an advanced age he became a priest and enjoyed the patronage of Innocent XI, who made him successively referendary Utriusque Signaturae, auditor of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Cecilia became patroness of music through a misunderstanding.
Also, the coolness factor is high, so few patrons are willing to break their surface pouts.
Again, the same cowlike expressions from patrons as he passed. The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves
The Emperor at this time was Chien Lung, the best of the Manchu dynasty, a cultivated man, a patron of the arts, and an exquisite calligraphist. The Problem of China
My messages were aimed at warning other locals of the dangers inherent in patronizing that parking lot so that readers would be on the alert at all times there and, if they are smarter than I was, accept no help of any kind from anyone. Secure Parking Lots
African radio stations have been important patrons of music and, in some countries, of poetry and oral literature.
I agree that the patroness was a little too convenient and failed to show any actual persuasion on the part of Caffrey, but it was an easy fix that we all knew was coming. Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks 'White Collar': Was it fun crime or punishment? | EW.com
Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage.
The "omission of the General's title" is the subject of complaint, as if this title were sufficient evidence of the commanding powers of one of the patrons of tractoration. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Commercial influence and the grip of wealthy patrons are obtrusive and obvious.
They all do the same thing: if they like you they get you in for a cup of stewed tea and patronise you for an hour. Times, Sunday Times
Two party patrons swooning over the calorific Oreos were Patty Godfrey and Lyn Stewart.
Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
In addition, nearly every Rajput clan has its own patron god to whom it turns for protection.
He received a commission for the altarpiece, to be painted for the royally patronized convent church in Madrid.
Also patron of epileptics and runaways; she is invoked against diabolic possession and mental disorders.
One wall is dedicated to announcements, notices and messages that patrons want to put up.

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