South African tribes the rich exert their power to subjugate the poor, who hang upon them in a kind of clientage, hoping to receive something. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)
This earlier concept of "household" incorporated those who were nonresident but still associated with the head of household either through ties of economic dependency or clientage based on service, proximity, lineage, and so on. 17 ❋ Unknown (2008)
Concerning hamsaya relations between Afghans and Hindus, particularly between Shikarpuri bankers and Durrani elites in the nineteenth century, the concept of clientage must be seen as dynamic, contradictory, and applying well to both sides of the social and economic equation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Lines of patronage and clientage were not as simple as the terms might indicate. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This sphere of influence was expanded by the practice of vassalage/clientage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For an important example, in Afghanistan the institution of hamsaya or clientage creates bonds between prosperous members of any community, such as local khans and castle-holders (qaladars), and various categories of dependents, some of who are culturally distant such as Indians. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Throughout this period, government officials learned to be wary of the power of public opinion — not because they expected anyone to storm the Bastille but because well-placed slander could damage relations within the delicate system of protection and clientage at the heart of politics in Versailles. ❋ Darnton, Robert (2008)
Does he speak for those invested in the long-standing ties of clientage and patronage between the Saudi and Bush royal families and their interlocking financial interests? ❋ Unknown (2008)
A prosperous business year has enabled us to enlarge our offices and put in them an immense fireproof safe to protect our clientage. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)
This means that the clientage system is very extensive in the country since so many are state-employees. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the restricted patriarchal nuclear family was modified by the loss of a sense of trusteeship to the lineage, by the decline of kinship and clientage, and by the concurrent rise of the power of the state and the spread of Protestantism. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Even if the Conscript Fathers of Virginia ecided to set up a clientage system like the one Alfred Douglas had outlined the year before, by now he had enough money to buy himself out of any further service to the family that had once owned him. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (1988)
Some of these prerogatives, however, are but small remnants of practices that were once more general, such as the entourage and train associated with “clientage,”1 which led a worthy to demonstrate his status by the cluster of dependent supporters that accompanied him through a town or a house of parliament, shouldering his way for him wherever he went. ❋ ERVING GOFFMAN (1963)
In drinking saloons he lost his clientage and in penniless poverty he died -- unwept, unhonored, unsung. ❋ George W. Bain (N/A)
He had been quite unable to devote his customary labor to the benefit of his law partnership and the good of their clientage during the two years that he was Mayor of Boston. ❋ Various (N/A)
On the other hand, you will find at the other extreme of intelligence, among your clientage of readers, those who are completely familiar with books and their uses. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)
A large clientage was considered the crown and glory of a patrician house. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
