A shift in focus occurred in which traditional patronage practices came to the fore-the aesthetic wishes of the corporate class began to affect the artists' choices in subject matter and style.

Patronage hiring places burdens on free speech and association similar to those imposed by the patronage practices discussed above.

The electorate can vote him out of office if his patronage practices betray the public trust.

Defending Andrew Jackson's patronage practices, Marcy said that American politicians "see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy."

Mukherjee was accused of patronage practices in the Ambani-Wadia industrial feuds.

The ruling came in a case challenging patronage practices in the Illinois state government, but it applies at the Federal, state and local levels.

To link themselves with the learned elite of their cities, they relied on the political usage of patronage practices.

The depositions, they said, concerned patronage practices and how judgeship nominations were dispensed over the last decade by Democratic Party leaders.

He envisioned a couple of overfed cronies in snap-brimmed fedoras, smoking sour cigars, giving witness and protection to Pendergast's patronage practice.

Mr. Dunn was referring to a report that sharply criticized the patronage practices of the county government and its relationship with the Republican Party.