patronal

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• To patronal egoism, however attractive such an explanation might be, is to simplify the issue overmuch.

  Academic text (2000)

• As in all such patronal relationships where resources are uneven, outside politicians tried to foster the favelas' dependency on their benefactors at election time.

  Academic text (1996)

• After the Second World War, these patronal festivals changed into village festivals, which go hand in hand with markets and balls.

  Academic text (1990)

• In religious festivities, like the patronal festivals and All Souls' Day, communities not only celebrate the divine but also their own society.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Gospel ambo at San Clemente (where else?) on the patronal feast day.

  Blog text (15)

• Dignity and superiority, expressed in the size of a village, the quality of its soil, and its ability to celebrate a lavish patronal festival, played an important role in this pecking order.

  Academic text (1990)

• Ready access to Mexican capital, programs, and personnel all enabled Televisa to build up its United States enterprises, but these apparent advantages, together with the limitations of a patronal Mexican management style, ultimately caused the company to lose its grip on the very market which it had commercialized.

  Academic text (1990)

• In a postscript dated March 20, 1749, he submitted "A RHAPSODY on RUM," which he called "Confusion's angry Sire," an indication that excess might have accompanied the celebration of their patronal feast.

  Academic text (2007)

• Thus, the channels through which the squatters dealt with the outside polity were limited to a series of manipulations of patronal ties in a context where political parties were largely elitist, and a lack of mass-based parties provided little possibility for substantial gains through the formal party system.

  Academic text (1996)

• Every year, the town celebrates its patronal festival to honor its beloved saint.

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