Sentences with phrase «patronage from»

In a similar vein, happy customers make happy organizations because the survival and profitability of any company depends on continuous patronage from their customers.

The job position of a customer service representative is a key to recurrent patronage from customers and that is paramount to the survival of any service driven company.

I would like the legal profession in India to be more open to youngsters reaching the top without seeking patronage from their seniors.

Bellas Artes Projects was founded by Jam Acuzar and derives its primary patronage from the Acuzar family and New San Jose Builders.

Patronage from the church diminished and private patronage from the public became more capable of providing a livelihood for artists.

With one of the Great Ocean Road's finest beaches on its doorstep that disappears into the crystal blue waters of Louttit Bay and the unspoiled rainforests of the Otway Ranges bordering the entire region, it is easy to understand why Lorne enjoys patronage from visitors as diverse as the region.

As brick and mortar megachains appear to be fading from the landscape of the book world, indie booksellers are enjoying renewed patronage from readers who prefer to shop locally, want a sense of community often absent in the «big box» world, or simply enjoy reading material more eclectic than typical mass - market fare.

AfricanBrains is proud to announce the 6th Innovation Africa Summit and is delighted to confirm official patronage from the Government of Kenya.

Bringing Together Africa's Leading Decision Makers AfricanBrains is proud to announce the 6th Innovation Africa Summit and is delighted to confirm official patronage from the Government of Kenya.

In a scenario, where affiliation fees drop significantly, union leaders could end up with greater powers of patronage from the increased sums available for donation.

However, what is certainly true in the Labour Party is that fewer MPs have an organic base in wider society, to counteract any dependence on patronage from above.

While an MP might owe his or her place in parliament, or even cabinet, not due to patronage from above, but because he was an NUM MP, or had backing from the public sector unions, or the London Labour Party etc, s / he could enter into those discussions pre-vote from a position of real stregnth.

And while Aristotle eventually received Catholic blessing because of the precedent set by Thomas Aquinas, Arab Aristotelians were largely secular professionals (physicians mostly) who had to rely on worldly patronage from caliphs and provincial governors.

Ideas about the sanctity of conscience and the importance of godly edification were emphasized and subtly modified by clergy as they attempted to secure popular submission to the secular authorities, regain ecclesiastical control of the laity, forge alliances with the state, and secure patronage from the aristocracy.

He has the mother kneeling at his feet, begging favors, like a poor widow asking for patronage from a ward boss.

Not exact matches

If you don't thank clients for their patronage, another new and interesting firm might come along and snatch them away.Thanking your customers can go a long way toward making them feel proud to be affiliated with you and to buy from you.

Here are some of the perks for your patronage: First, you get a free 16 - to 20 - pound turkey — fresh, not frozen, from a local farm, just in time for Turkey Day.

In contrast to Jackson's and Van Buren's political patronage via banking privilege, the line of control now runs the other way around, from banking to politics.

And the same, I believe, can be demonstrated from epigraphic and papyrological evidence of eurergetism and patronage.

Many translations from Indian languages into Persian were made under the patronage of the Mughal emperors, notably the translation of the Mahabharata and Ramayana under Akbar.

Patronage of the arts, converted by Protestants from a privilege of the church to a thriving private enterprise, became a means for displaying personal success and civic virtue.

Rainey comes bearing the new, academically orthodox, message that «modernism... is a strategy whereby the work of art invites and solicits its commodification, but does so in such a way that it becomes a commodity of a special sort, one that is temporarily exempted from the exigencies of immediate consumption prevalent within the larger cultural economy and instead is integrated into a different economic circuit of patronage, collecting, speculation, and investment.»

Kirkland's effort to finesse his program led to a purposeful blurring of nomenclature, and eventually the rhetorical slide ran from simply «Methodist» down through «ownership,» «sponsorship,» «patronage,» «support,» «affiliation,» to «relationship.»

Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.

Once such patronage disappeared (imams in the House of Islam being much more powerful, needless to say, than were rabbis in the Christian West), Aristotle soon faded from the mental horizon of Arab civilization.

It is true that the patronage of the rulers contributed to a considerable flourishing of the arts and sciences, but this does not qualify the judgment that the vital creative forces of the community were divorced from or in open revolt against society.

Third, it frees individuals from the web of dependency and patronage.

Kelly has managed to insulate himself from such threats over the years by sharing patronage throughout the Democratic organization.

This might be considered a novel approach only in Chicago, where parks have been defined as patronage playgrounds and park improvements as favors dispensed directly from headquarters.

Even if today's hierarchies do not derive wholly from «tradition», David Seyfort Ruegg, Hildegard Diemberger, and Sumit Guha remind us that these hierarchies do have historical antecedents in the patronage structures of monastic orders, imperial kingdoms, and patrimonial bureaucracies.

Those from peasant and ex-untouchable castes are no less prone to patronage politics, as the chapters by Lucia Michelutti and Diane Mines show, than those from historically dominant groups in Indian society.

This maze, in turn, is kept in check by a system of patronage pervading throughout, extracting wealth from the Chinese economy and causing endemic corruption.

Older examples include the blocking of Welsh church reform from 1868 to 1920, coercion Acts in nineteenth - century Ireland, and the Patronage Act (Scotland) 1711/12, violating the then recent Act of Union.

Commuters in Accra will from today enjoy free rides on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System known as «Aayalolo» to encourage patronage of the service.

They had patronage money coming in from people that have jobs and have to donate money,» Pigeon said.

Though the Minister admits the 23 priority products will face competition from imported ones, he is confident an appeal to Ghanaians will increase patronage.

The measure specifies that such a facility would include «superior consumer amenities and conveniences to encourage and attract the patronage of tourists and other visitors from across the region, state and nation.»

«It's distressing, however, that Jack Martins has chosen an issue that unites us all — health care for veterans — to try to distract from the revelations of mismanagement and taxpayer - funded patronage that have emerged in the past week about the public hospital run by his political machine.»

Plus, Spitzer promises that the state's public authorities will no longer be «patronage dumping grounds... insulated from accountability».

The personnel votes and union changes drew the most condemnation among the town board members and from the audience, some of whom carried signs that said, «Vote no to the patronage amendment.»

They say Skelos has rewarded Westchester Independence Party leader Giulio Cavallo with patronage jobs and other support — in hopes of getting Independence backing for Senate candidates next year — at the same time that Cavallo was blocking Astorino from getting his party's ballot line.

They have been warned by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the opposition NPP, Bernard Antwi - Boasiako also known as Chairman Wontumi to stay away from the NDC and President Mahama if they want good patronage of their products in the Ashanti region.

Political parties are all about ass - kissing and patronage and organization around ironclad, polarizing, hot - button visceral issues to distract the «booboisie» (thank you, H.L. Mencken) from what really is hurting us and needs to be changed.

DeFrancisco, the Senate's Finance Committee chairman, compared the situation to scenes from the movie «Lincoln» in which the president is depicted buying votes in exchange for patronage jobs.

An ad from the state Democratic Committee that began to air this week accuses Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino of making patronage hires in Westchester County.

Because of that policy which is encouraging local production, Nigerians are beginning to patronise locally manufactured products thereby creating jobs instead of the foreign products patronage which takes the jobs away from the economy.

This cause has long been blocked by an establishment resistant to change and by the vested interests who benefit from maintaining the power of political patronage, while keeping the power of people out.

McEneny dispensed patronage under protean Mayor Erastus Corning and, if you're from Albany, he can place your grandmother by either ward or parish.

That some of those who would play a pivotal role in passing the laws of our land would do so by virtue of a title they inherited from their parents or from the patronage of another politician?

In a statement to a news conference in London, Clegg was scathing about the bill's opponents, referring to them as «an establishment resistant to change [and] vested interests who benefit from maintaining the power of political patronage, while keeping the power of people out».