Sentences with phrase «powerful patrons»
The phrase "powerful patrons" refers to influential individuals or groups who provide support, resources, or protection to others. These patrons have significant influence and can greatly assist or benefit those they support. Full definition
When wealthy and powerful patrons make decisions, that's probably bad.
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This may be because of innate suspicion of «big science» (which climate science has become, with powerful patrons in government and UN and international institutions) or because of a commitment to forms of data and knowledge libertarianism, as in the Wikileaks movement.
Hillary Clinton blamed powerful patrons of the GOP for deepening the country's political divide, but added that she also regrets some of the things she's said.
By then, both Bellarmine (1621) and Cesi (1630) were dead, and Galileo had few powerful patrons left to defend him.
But it was tapestry that allowed him to reach his full potential as he worked for Europe's most powerful patrons — Charles V, François I, Cosimo de Medici and Henry VIII.
He aimed to intrigue powerful patrons by his mysterious and independent personality.
On the other hand, there is Vince Cable — the most vocal and powerful patron of Ebdon — claiming that we stand to lose the war on social mobility unless we employ more radical battle tactics.
Fake news was not only a sin of commission, but also one of omission: For - profit wire services would refuse to cover social issues, from labor protests to tainted meat, in ways that would depict their powerful patrons in a negative light.
If Ms. Crowley has a powerful patron like her cousin looking out for her, there remains a good chance that the district remains intact.
«There is no secret and no shame in a Conservative MP being a loyal ally of his former boss and powerful patron.
Skelos, the charges say, used his clout on state issues as wide - ranging as rent regulation, fracking and malpractice insurance to squeeze AbTech and two other companies to give his son work, and then corruptly pushed to fund contracts in Nassau County and elsewhere — the «other stuff» he consoled his son with in code last December — to help him succeed, while Adam Skelos bullied and bragged about what access to his powerful patron could do.
Galileo proposed naming the moons after his powerful patrons, the Medicis, in a bid to win favor and funding.
In 1940, Krishnamacharya's powerful patron, the Maharaja of Mysore, died.
Crossing the Atlantic to the United States in the 1920's, the bull mastiff became one of the most popular breeds due to the breed's rich and powerful patrons.