"patronage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Civil rights rhetoric by itself was no match for a patronage machine that could appear in blackface when it needed to.
- But the small-government rhetoric was never sincere: from Day 1, the administration set out to create a vast new patronage machine.
- Farley, and the administration's patronage machine he presided over, helped to fuel the social and infrastructure programs of the New Deal.
- Farley masterfully used the patronage machine to line up support for the New Deal's liberal programs.
- But critics accuse him of building a personal patronage machine to replace Communism.
- Each congressman commands a political patronage machine that the old ward bosses would have envied.
- Bankruptcy, even for the venerable political patronage machines run by Histadrut, the labor federation, is now a real threat.
- Turner found out that Mulroney was allegedly setting up a patronage machine in anticipation of victory.
- Originally founded as a home for anti-Communists, it mutated over the years into a patronage machine.
- Because the city qualified for a range of grants for the needy, the patronage machine grew stronger.
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