McClure ruled, through patronage and punishment, from 1930 to his death in 1965.

Traditionally, families such as his have demonstrated their appreciation of art through patronage and little in creativity.

Members ensured their conservative friends held the important administrative and judicial positions in the colony through political patronage.

The two had made a pact that whichever of them first struck it rich through patronage abroad would help the other.

Accustomed to leading a guerrilla movement, he prefers to work through personal influence and patronage.

Jewell wanted the Postal Service to be run as a business rather than through patronage.

Until the 1970's, the Capitol Police officers were almost always hired through political patronage.

Rakhmon is said to have accumulated substantial informal power through patronage.

Many of the mid-level managers got their jobs through patronage from earlier Republican administrations.

The old way was through pork and patronage.