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Among assorted reasons for suspecting things may not actually be that bad – Champions League group stage qualification, fresh sponsorial funds – is the makeup of the youthful fringes of this Arsenal team.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2012

Suffers slight drop in laughably excessive sponsorial earnings as a result.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2011

What is there, what can there be, in common with these widely severed classes, save that they equally enjoy Sir at the head and Bart. at the tail of their sponsorial and patronymic appellations?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

What time, too, his little sister, connecting me with the pony, trotted up and down the centre aisle, noisily driving herself as that celebrated animal, so that it went very hard with the sponsorial dignity.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

While we’re doing the sponsorial act, lunch will be prepared and ready for us to discuss during the next run.”

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert