patronage

A better answer is open under any system: less patronage.

But as for your patronage, I give it all back.

The pressure on patronage is very great, as you know.

The change put a large number of patronage jobs under his control.

It has a patronage figure of 180 million every year.

We could help people get jobs years ago if you were on the right side of the patronage table.

By the early 60's he began to find his true voice, which lost him two important sources of patronage.

From the year 1950, any political organization that wanted to continue to hold power would need the patronage of the military.

She would bring up Adam without him and his patronage.

Its officials say they have kept patronage to a minimum.

It's enough to make an artist want to return to the days of private patronage.

The King's daughter's patronage must have been well worth what it cost.

The patronage got 11,050 books to keep and over 20 000 disappeared.

Patronage was in the past only granted to a very few.

The decision remains an important factor in the state's patronage system.

The service during its operational years, however, had a low patronage.

The new station opened in 1961, but the patronage was low.

Not dramatically, but they'll get no more money or patronage from me.

"Perhaps you might even win him away from his patronage of such places," I said.

However, their relationship to the church was more than the normal one of lay patronage.

Some people in patronage jobs are even qualified for them.

More likely it will change the patronage and level of corruption.

Political patronage has always been a hallmark of Washington life.

It is all a question of patrons and patronage, he said.

Political patronage got me the job, of course, not brains.