What's the difference between benefactor and sponsor?

Benefactor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who confers a benefit or benefits.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Sponsor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
  • (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (2) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
  • (3) That’s why we’ve sponsored the World Cup globally for more than 20 years.
  • (4) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
  • (5) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
  • (6) There followed a sponsors’ event at which Wayne Rooney , Ander Herrera and Henrikh Mkhitaryan were present, along with James Reigle, the club’s Asia Pacific managing director.
  • (7) Jonathan's party and the biggest opposition coalition have traded accusations about who is sponsoring and arming Boko Haram, but none have provided any proof.
  • (8) The research programme, sponsored by the National Research Council of Italy, was completed in 1988 and focused on (1) acquisition of technology by hospitals; (2) assessment of performance evaluation and preventive maintenance procedures for biomedical equipment; (3) cost analysis of high-technology health services; (4) analysis of clinical engineering activities in Italy.
  • (9) We tested nine (cadmium chloride, chloral hydrate, colchicine, diazepam, econazole nitrate, hydroquinone, pyrimethamine, thiabendazole, thimerosal) of the 10 known or suspected spindle poisons of the coordinated programme to study aneuploidy induction sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities using Saccharomyces cerevisiae D61.M (mitotic chromosomal malsegregation system).
  • (10) Karen Fletcher, Sheffield • So it's a "government sponsored scheme".
  • (11) It is hoped that international collaborative research studies such as that on the effect of differences in nutrition or diabetes control in children, between our clinic and the Valle Hebron Children Hospital in Barcelona (sponsored by the Child Health Foundation) will generate knowledge on how to prevent premature atherosclerosis in childhood diabetes.
  • (12) An economic evaluation of the self-help program was conducted from the perspective of the sponsoring HMO.
  • (13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • (14) While it is not a household name in the UK, its blue and green logo is familiar site on high streets across Asia and Africa and the bank sponsors Liverpool football club.
  • (15) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
  • (16) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
  • (17) As a sponsor, they gain exclusivity in their sector," he said.
  • (18) This issue boils down to the question whether the ballot sponsors are more like citizens with strong policy views about a law (who normally cannot defend a law in federal court) or, instead, surrogate public officials who can act as the state for purposes of this lawsuit when the state itself refuses to do so (who would be permitted to defend the law).
  • (19) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
  • (20) By further tapping into the expertise of the independent sector – which has already resulted in many independent schools sponsoring or co-sponsoring state academies – he will say that England's state schools can become the best in the world.