7 sentences with 'patronised'

Example sentences and phrases with the word patronised and other words derived from it.

« The kings patronised the Zoroastrian temples and expanded the faith at least in part because the faith supported them: the magi, or priests, preached for the continued power and expansion of the empire. »
« The Macedonians competed in the Olympics and patronised the arts and literature. »
« All the famous thinkers and artists of the Renaissance were patronised by the wealthy, which was the way artists and scholars could concentrate on their work. »
« In 1434 royal power was in the hands of the Medici family, which controlled the city government (the Signoria) and patronised the arts. »
« She became a famous poet and writer in her own right, being patronised (i.e. receiving commissions for her writing) by a wide range of French and Italian nobles. »
« Thus, as Beauvoir described, it was not just that men dominated, patronised and often violently abused women, but that being a woman was the exception to every kind of political theory, philosophy and history ever conceived. Women were, in a sense, not really part of history. »
« He passionately declares that "most people don't want to be patronised, or told what to do by bureaucrats, or to wait for help from the state. They just want fair conditions in which they can make their own decisions and shape their own destiny. The most a politician can hope to do is to help create such conditions. »

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