(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.
Underwriter
Definition:
(n.) One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(2) The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.
(3) Our presence underwrites the multi-use legacy of the stadium and our contribution alone will pay back more than the cost of building and converting the stadium over the course of our tenancy.” West Ham added in a later statement: “The worldwide draw of hosting the most popular and watched football league in the world in such an iconic venue will add value to any sponsorship and commercial agreements related to the stadium, which the public purse stands to further benefit from.
(4) A group of ex-miners appear to have been wooed by Osborne when he visited them ahead of a trip to the Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire earlier this month to announce the government would underwrite a fuel-benefit scheme.
(5) These insurers underwrite coverage for over 100 million people.
(6) What if the giant corporation such as IBM, Xerox, General Electric, General Motors, and so forth, established programs to underwrite the cost of long-term care?
(7) Efforts to reform the small group market include making insurance more available by restricting the use of medical underwriting to deny access, and compressing rates to make it more affordable for high-risk groups.
(8) He clearly does not want to bite the ministerial hand that feeds but admits changes introduced as part of the government's electricity market reform policy – such as contracts that underwrite the price of renewable and nuclear-generated power – has had a dampening effect on the market.
(9) Other Republicans have called on the administration to underwrite the $122bn start-up costs of 19 nuclear reactors, whose applications are now under review by the department of energy.
(10) She said she had attempted to get it covered but no underwriters were willing to offer insurance as there were only about 500 in the world and a suitable replacement would be likely to cost more than £30,000.
(11) "We've got to build more homes – that means changing the planning laws, and at the same time underwriting the purchase and the construction of homes – we're doing that.
(12) Axa's claims and underwriting director then became involved and, with some persuading from us, you and he had a conversation about the discrepancies in your two stories.
(13) He added that the three new risks were the US, where corporate debt underwriting standards were "weakening rapidly"; the possibility that a flood of cheap money from developed countries could de-stabilise emerging markets; and the dangers involved in unwinding prolonged monetary easing in America.
(14) The documents show that Chappell’s consortium, Retail Acquisitions, defaulted on a loan a week after buying BHS, leading to higher charges, and that his advisers explored the possibility of Green underwriting the professional fees he had to pay to buy BHS.
(15) Read more “The project has already used £37.4m of public money and the agreement to underwrite cancellation costs by the government could bring the bill to the taxpayer up to £46.4m,” the report said.
(16) As a temporary method of correction joint underwriting associations appear to be the most practical suggestion.
(17) Britain has contributed around £1bn to the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM), but the funds have remained outside a scheme used to underwrite short-term loans to Greece following a deal between the UK and Brussels in 2010 stipulating that UK funds would only be used to protect the EU.
(18) And it could be a goldmine for insurance companies, able to find out everything they ever wanted to know about the risk they're underwriting.
(19) The increase from 1947-50 to 1961-5 in mortality during all episodes of ischaemic heart disease was the same in the doctors as in the male population of England and Wales at 45-54, but at 55-64 it was less.The results in the doctors are not due to alterations over the period in length of sickness absence, or underwriting policy, or of the nomenclature used on the certificates.Well-documented changes in the smoking habits of doctors may be partly responsible for what appears to have been a relatively favourable experience of ischaemic heart disease from 1947-50 to 1961-5, especially at ages 55-64.Incidence of duodenal ulcer at ages 35-64 declined steadily in this population of doctors from 1947-50 to 1961-5.
(20) In this paper I compute the actual and allowable normal underwriting profit rates in medical malpractice, as well as in other liability lines, for six large insurance companies.