(1) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(2) In the absence of foreign benefactors it makes financial sense, and also appeals to the supporters in control, to give young German players an opportunity.
(3) Airline shares are leading the charge -- they're an obvious benefactor from the lower oil price.
(4) The contemporary family romance myth of the secret benefactor as rescuer is described.
(5) Kim Jong-un's need for cash has grown more urgent following tough UN sanctions in response to recent missile and nuclear tests, which also prompted China, the North's main benefactor, to rein in its assistance.
(6) His benefactors, he says, are "rather lovely people, who say: 'I'm a little bit Red, I'm a little bit Tory.
(7) It reveals seven foundation benefactors linked to HSBC bank accounts in Geneva, who have donated, in total, as much as $81m.
(8) The army's equipment is now so poor that soldiers typically buy their own uniforms and most military equipment, or rely on private benefactors.
(9) The nation faces losing further culturally important works, including Poussin's The Infant Moses trampling Pharaoh's Crown (c1645-6) and a 1641 Van Dyck self-portrait, unless rich benefactors can find £26.5m to save them before temporary export bans run out.
(10) Makhaya wrote: “These contradictions, Rhodes the pillager and Rhodes the benefactor, are a symbol of our country’s evolution towards a yet to be attained just and inclusive order.
(11) She knows he is a national treasure, both as a footballing icon and benefactor to many of Liberia's poor.
(12) The children's relatively good scores on the tests may be understood by placing their abandonment in a cultural perspective, which includes the children's strong peer support system, their access to adult benefactors, and the fact that the children were developing in an orderly fashion from matrifocal families.
(13) I must confess to having been a little surprised at being asked to give The Dental School Founders' and Benefactors' Lecture this year.
(14) "If you thought your benefactor's name was to be revealed, then you are greatly mistaken," said Jaggers.
(15) HSBC executives continued to so business with Al Rajhi Bank in Saudi Arabia, even after it emerged that its owners had links to organizations financing terrorism and that one of the bank's founders was an early financial benefactor of al-Qaida.
(16) Last week it was revealed he had used a network of benefactors – including tapping Mandela for a 3m rand (£214,000) gift – who shelled out millions of rand to sustain him and his 21-child family.
(17) I have never met or spoken with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor.
(18) To imagine the US president negotiating with these countries as if he were a benefactor discussing how fast wealth should be transferred from west to east is just not realistic.
(19) Concerns are heightened by their being dependent on a single benefactor, the owner Eddie Davies.
(20) With President Trump in a position to personally benefit financially from his world-wide business enterprises, the American people will not be able to tell whose interests are represented by the president’s policy decisions: Trump’s financial interests, his benefactors’ interests, or the interests of the American people.” Nor is the long-awaited plan likely to appease Trump’s government critics.
Charity
Definition:
(n.) Love; universal benevolence; good will.
(n.) Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.
(n.) Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.
(n.) Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.
(n.) A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.
(n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(2) As both a high-impact charity and a successful business, perhaps Mr Osborne believes we are divided against ourselves?
(3) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(4) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
(5) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(6) May is due to announce that Dennis Stevenson, a former HBOS chairman and a mental health campaigner, will lead a review alongside Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind.
(7) Even Paul Bright had to get a private charity to fund half his work.
(8) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
(9) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(10) The work was published as a charity calendar the following year.
(11) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(12) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(13) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
(14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(15) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.
(16) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(17) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(18) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(19) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
(20) As a legal practice and a charity combined we are distinct – anyone with any condition can come to us for advice.