(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.
Malefactor
Definition:
(n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
(n.) One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Wednesday, Sboui appeared before an investigating judge in Kairouan who is considering the charges; they include public indecency, desecrating a cemetery and belonging to a band of malefactors seeking to damage public property.
(2) Its charge was to investigate, and possibly arrest, what the New China News Agency called “malicious” short sellers (which in China is not an illegal practice) – a group of malefactors said by some Chinese media outlets to include the American financier George Soros.
(3) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.
(4) malefactor is restricted to Panama and northwestern Colombia.
(5) The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) pioneered the first genocide trials in Africa but after almost 20 years of legal argument and an estimated bill of $1.7bn (£1bn), only a tiny proportion of the Rwandan malefactors has been brought to justice.
(6) Anopheles malefactor Dyar and Knab is elevated from synonymy with An.
(7) Maybe they appreciate a good malefactor in Oceania.
(8) The conidial phase of the ascomycete may very well, I believe, be the malefactor in these conditions that hitherto have defied etiological explanation.
(9) We need people like him to help explain why the National Security Agency – just one malefactor among an assortment of other security and law enforcement bodies here and abroad – has become at least as much a menace to our security as it is a protector.
(10) Rudd has said that the arsonists suspected of lighting some fires are guilty of mass murder, and the police are busy chasing down these malefactors.
(11) The video uses cartoons, photos and even a scene from a Mr Bean film, describing Jiang as a “malefactor” who colluded and received money from unnamed “foreign forces”.
(12) I had hoped Kadyrov would address the crowd, but instead he sent a couple of underlings, who recounted modern Chechnya’s founding myth: how Akhmad rescued the Chechens from westerners, terrorists, Islamists and other malefactors; how Ramzan took on his mantle, and transformed the republic into something magnificent.
(13) We have, however, a pictorial summary of the pertinent uncovered facts that, when added together, presents a credible, logical, and valid conclusion to support the concept that these specific bacterial spores contribute to the pathway of activity to associate them as the malefactor in carcinogenesis.
(14) Rudd has said the arsonists suspected of lighting some fires are guilty of mass murder, and the police are pursuing the malefactors.