It is now seat of the Patronage Office for Tourism and Handicraft of the province

Patronage politics still hinders the development of democracy and natural resources are now mostly exploited by Western nations.

In 1885, Queen Victoria became Patron of the home, and it has remained under Royal Patronage ever since.

Patronage by the great figures of the land, and the largest monasteries, became extravagant in this period, and the greatest late Anglo-Saxon churches must have presented a dazzling spectacle, somewhat in the style of Eastern Orthodox churches.

In Princes Patronage and the Nobility: The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age, cc.

Physicians and the Roman Imperial Aristocracy: The Patronage of Therapeutics.

According to the constitution, it is incumbent upon the King: to sanction and promulgate laws ; to summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales ( the Parliament ) and to call elections ; to call a referendum under the circumstances provided in the constitution ; to propose a candidate for prime minister, and to appoint or remove him from office, as well as other ministers ; to issue the decrees agreed upon by the Council of Ministers ; to confer civil and military positions, and to award honors and distinctions ; to be informed of the affairs of the State, presiding over the meetings of the Council of Ministers whenever opportune ; to exercise supreme command of the Spanish Armed Forces, to exercise the right to grant pardons, in accordance to the law ; and to exercise the High Patronage of the Royal Academies.

Patronage was never far away.

Founded by Pope Pius V ( Antonio Ghislieri ) in 1567, since 18th century laically managed, nowadays under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, it is ranked among high qualifying institutions by the Italian Ministry for Education and University.

Patronage refers to favoring supporters, for example with government employment.

Though his first Italian visit is recognized as a crucial chapter in the development of Velázquez's style – and in the history of Spanish Royal Patronage, since Philip IV sponsored his trip – we know rather little about the details and specifics: what the painter saw, whom he met, how he was perceived and what innovations he hoped to introduce into his painting.

" Roma Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Lord Arundel and the Obelisk of Domitian ", in Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome, eds.

Patronage and bribes paid by the Treasury were normally expected to be enough to secure the Government a comfortable majority in the House of Commons but on this occasion the government reaped much popular support as well.

Patronage rapidly declined in the nineteen-twenties.

* Princes and Artists: Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Courts, 1517-1633, 1976.

( 2010 ) Portraiture, Dynasty and Power: Art Patronage in Hanoverian Britain, 1714 – 1759.

* Edward Chaney, " Roma Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Lord Arundel and the Obelisk of Domitian ", in Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome, eds.

Little by little a major dynasty emerged, that of the Ottomans, who, after 1450, are referred to as the “ first Ottomans .” Patronage was exercised primarilyso be seen as the forerunners of Ottoman art, in particular the “ Milet ” ceramics and the first blue-and-white Anatolian works.

In addition to the works named, the following were published during Hutcheson's lifetime: a pamphlet entitled Considerations on Patronage ( 1735 ); Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria, ethices et jurisprudentiae naturalis elementa continens, lib.

To exercise the High Patronage of the Royal Academies.

John Boydell ( 1719 – 1804 ): A Study of Art Patronage and Publishing in Georgian London.

Courts, Patronage and the Nobility at the Beginning of the Modern Period, 1450 – 1650.

The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty, 1400 – 1800.

He also received the Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, of Trinity College, Dublin on February 20, 2007.

Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I. Harper Collins.

Collective and Popular Bases of Early Buddhist Patronage: Sacred Monuments, 100 BC-AD 250.

The vision became even stronger now.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

This concept of " corrected lime potential " to define the degree of base saturation in soils became the basis for procedures now used in soil testing laboratories to determine the " lime requirement " of soils.

gray amber ), became used for ambergris, while ambre jaune ( yellow amber ), denoted the fossil resin we now call amber.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

Portions of the lands of the former County of Baden now became the District of Baden in the newly created Canton of Aargau.

Zadok now became sole high priest.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

It became an official Summer Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for individual players.

In the 1980s aluminum alloy frames and other components became popular due to their light weight, and most mid-range bikes are now principally aluminum alloy of some kind.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

This solution had a peculiar behaviour at what is now called the Schwarzschild radius, where it became singular, meaning that some of the terms in the Einstein equations became infinite.

The Beano is now the longest-running weekly comic, since The Dandy became a fortnightly comic in 2007.

The addition of the Cotton and Harley manuscripts introduced a literary and antiquarian element and meant that the British Museum now became both national museum and library.

Under his supervision, the British Museum Library ( now the British Library ) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris.

The car became known as the AMX-400 and it is now owned by an automobile collector.

Croatia and Slavonia became a part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs composed out of all Southern Slavic territories of the now former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with a transitional government headed in Zagreb.