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- Dictionarypatronage/ˈpatrənɪdʒ/
noun
- 1. the support given by a patron: "the arts could no longer depend on private patronage" Similar
- 2. the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges: "recruits are selected on merit, not through political patronage" Similar
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1 day ago · This party dominated the king’s ministry and used the resulting patronage to its own benefit. Bolingbroke argued for the legitimacy of an alternate faction, called the Country Party, with its ...
4 days ago · The amount of the profit tax or the amount of the profit tax that may be redirected is calculated by deducting from the minimal value established under the Law no. 227/2015 1 of the amounts accounting for sponsorship and / patronage, granted to the beneficiary entities in the year concerned by the annual profit tax return and the amount carried ...
1 day ago · Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque. New York, 1963, pp. 126, 222, pl. 34, notes that this portrait was previously in the collections of Cardinal Ruffo and was with Sir William Hamilton by 1798, before passing into the collection of Lord Radnor. José Camón Aznar. Velázquez ...
6 days ago · KUALA LUMPUR (July 20): Under the patronage of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia as the 17th monarch, the government and the people will weather global economic fluctuations through...
2 days ago · The prime minister holds powers of patronage which means that at any time, they may obtain the appointment, dismissal or nominal resignation of any other minister. The prime minister may implement a cabinet reshuffle ; one famous example was the Night of the Long Knives .
1 day ago · In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after an 1873 Mark Twain novel, although its publication was in the Reconstruction Era.
2 days ago · HOS record needed: The driver would need to submit either a paper log or an ELD (an ELD would be required if the driver has already submitted a paper log 8 days out of the last 30 days) due to the driver not being back to the work reporting location within 14 hours. Key to Remember: Just because the driver normally uses the short-haul logging ...
