The belly boites, with their papier-mache palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families.

The opposition claimed to be disadvantaged by the ALP's longstanding monopoly on patronage and its control of the media, especially in the 1999 general election.

Proving Dufferin's reflections on his character to be true, Mackenzie disliked intensely the patronage inherent in politics.

Elizabeth, during the last years of her reign, came to rely on granting monopolies as a cost-free system of patronage rather than ask Parliament for more subsidies in a time of war.

Some parts of national life receive their regular attention, often on an annual basis, or even in the form of official patronage.

Dundas put a brake on intellectual and social change through his ruthless manipulation of patronage in alliance with Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, until he lost power in 1806.

The removal of legislation on lay patronage would allow the majority of the Free Church to rejoin Church of Scotland in 1929.

Zogu, however, quickly turned his back on Belgrade and looked instead to Benito Mussolini's Italy for patronage.

In December of that year, Tycho invited Kepler to visit him in Prague ; on January 1, 1600 ( before he even received the invitation ), Kepler set off in the hopes that Tycho's patronage could solve his philosophical problems as well as his social and financial ones.

The Duke of Urbino was a shrewd military commander, who generously spent money on the patronage of art.

As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.

Leadership among the early Merovingians was probably based on mythical descent ( reflected in Fredegar's account of the Quinotaur ) and alleged divine patronage, expressed in terms of continued military success.

Under the patronage of the Pope, Michelangelo experienced constant interruptions to his work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks.

After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

Gregory's greatest success came in his patronage of colleges and seminaries which he founded on the Continent for the Irish and English, among others.

Whether through individuals, corporations or advocacy groups, such donations are often believed to engender a cronyist or patronage system via which major contributors are rewarded on a more or less quid pro quo basis.

Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey and the script reform, the Turkish Language Association ( TDK ) was established in 1932 under the patronage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with the aim of conducting research on Turkish.

Although his position on patronage kept peace in his party, it prevented him from building a strong political base.

While under the emperor's patronage, Josephus wrote that after the Roman Legio X Fretensis, accompanied by Vespasian, destroyed Jericho on 21 June 68, Vespasian took a group of Jews who could not swim ( possibly Essenes from Qumran ), fettered them, and threw them into the Dead Sea to test the sea's legendary buoyancy.

Known for shrewd party politics, Daley was a stereotypical machine politician, and his Chicago Democratic Machine, based on control of thousands of patronage positions, was instrumental in bringing a narrow 8, 000 vote victory in Illinois for John F. Kennedy in 1960.

On July 5, 2006, Robert Sorich, Daley's patronage chief and director of the Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Timothy McCarthy, Sorich's aide, were each convicted on two counts of mail fraud connected to rigging blue-collar city jobs and promotions.

After his election, Jackson began a political patronage system that rewarded political party operatives, which had a profound effect on future elections.

By springtime, he was supported by a rich merchant syndicate under the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

The Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque was built under the patronage of his mother.

However, the term " German " in the title was interpreted in the broadest possible sense, and its initial royal patronage made the connection clear between a perceived unity of Germanness in history and 19th century Germanness.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France ( reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d ' Albret, sister of John III of Navarre ), in the course of the Italian Wars.

Although he was an immensely capable general and statesman, Cesare would have trouble maintaining his domain without continued Papal patronage.

The last major remodeling took place in the 2nd century AD under the patronage of Herodus Atticus when the stone seating was built and ( arched ) entrance.

He was content to live the quiet life of a country vicar in Dymchurch-under-the-Wall under the patronage of Sir Charles Cobtree, the father of his best friend Anthony Cobtree, until his beautiful young Spanish wife Imogene was seduced by and eloped with Nicholas Tappitt, whom Dr. Syn had considered a close friend.

He was noted for his literary and theatrical patronage, and between 1564 and 1599 some 33 works included dedications to him by authors including Arthur Golding, John Lyly, Robert Greene and Anthony Munday.

He was estranged from Anne for five years, during which time he concerning himself with literary and musical patronage.

Of the 33 works dedicated to him, thirteen were original or translated works of literature, which May says suggest he was more sought out for patronage by literary writers, as opposed to authors of religious or scientific works, than other patrons of similar means.

After the Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain persecuted the Anarchists and Catalan nationalists among which Esperanto was extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with Francisco Franco accepting the honorary patronage of the Madrid World Esperanto Congress.

The patronage of the directors was ill-bestowed, and the general maladministration heightened their unpopularity.

Although the city was technically a democracy of sorts, his power came from a vast patronage network along with his alliance to the new immigrants, the gente nuova ( new people ).

From 1347, Boccaccio spent much time in Ravenna, seeking new patronage, and despite his claims, it is not certain whether he was present in plague-ravaged Florence.

The conference was preceded by the First International Conference of Philosophy where Peano was a member of the patronage committee.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

As London grew, Hertfordshire became conveniently close to the English capital ; much of the area was owned by the nobility and aristocracy, this patronage helped to boost the local economy.

He was stymied by a Congress controlled by his enemies, and his lack of patronage networks helped politicians eager to undercut him.

Under Justinian's patronage the San Vitale in Ravenna, which features two famous mosaics representing Justinian and Theodora, was completed.