(a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) As I watched it, I thought of all the arguments over trade that we’ve had in this country since the early 1990s, all the sweet words from our economists about the scientifically proven benevolence of free trade, all the ways in which our newspapers mock people who say that treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement allow companies to move jobs to Mexico.
(2) Who would blame the man who wants to assure his own homeostasis and happiness only by accumulating the treasure of other poeple's benevolence and love?
(3) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
(4) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
(5) The overall histologic appearance of the mesenchymal and epithelial components is benign, and preliminary clinical data suggest that the tumor has a benevolent course.
(6) On the benevolence dimension (e.g., trustworthiness, kindness), however, effectiveness interacted with age, such that for younger adults ineffective speakers were viewed significantly less positively than their more effective peers.
(7) So the idea of a benevolent dictator is not my cup of tea.” He conceded that Trump’s rise had affected his standing with voters.
(8) To the seven million citizens who watched Liu’s slow death in equal parts horror and grief, any remaining pretence that modern China is a benevolent paternal state that has moved beyond a brutal response to political debate has been shattered once and for all.
(9) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
(10) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
(11) A study of the sexual, benevolent and aggressive social interactions, of the authors of the acts, of the type of issues, of the intervention of chance and of the quality of emotions, as well, as of the diversity of the intervening people.
(12) Berkeley held that the moral duty of mankind was to obey God's laws; that--since God was a benevolent Creator--the object of His laws must be to promote the welfare and flourishing of mankind; and that, accordingly, humans could identify their moral duties by asking what system of laws for conduct would in fact tend to promote that object.
(13) Presented as a benevolent behemoth of fast-track regeneration, the Games were supposed to leave behind a shiny new world of 12,000 homes and 10,000 jobs, set amid the rolling hills of the largest new park in Europe.
(14) Shirk said one-party China – a country most still associate with little more than economic success and autocratic governance – saw a chance to rebrand itself as a benevolent great power acting in the common good.
(15) So the idea of a benevolent dictator is not my cup of tea Rand Paul Paul said polls became part of “a self-reinforcing news cycle because of the celebrity nature that goes on, on and on”, though he accepted that voters might “at a superficial level be attracted to bombast, insults, junior high sort of lobbing of verbal bombs that kind of stuff”.
(16) A large, intrusive government – however benevolent it claims to be – is not immune from the simple truth that centralized power threatens liberty.
(17) Students became less Authoritarian, less Benevolent, more inclined toward Mental Health Ideology, and less Social Restrictive.
(18) Beard told the New Yorker she had taken a similarly benevolent approach with another internet abuser who called her evil following her Question Time appearance.
(19) The recent history of South Africa according to FW de Klerk goes something like this: a white minority government, ruled by a series of benevolent dictators, was keen to devolve power to the black majority as equal partners.
(20) These tell less numerous dreams, which are shorter, less rich, heavier with aggressive events and painful sexuality and less provided with benevolence.
Charitable
Definition:
(a.) Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
(a.) Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
(a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
(a.) Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.
(a.) Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
(2) It argues that Saudi Islamic charitable groups have tended to fund Wahhabist ideology.
(3) (You'll also need oxygen if you didn't already know that vital air ambulance services are funded not by our taxes but charitable donations.)
(4) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
(5) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
(6) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
(7) Urdangarin, 47, is accused along with a former business partner of creaming off €6m (US$6.75m) in public funds from contracts awarded to Noos, a charitable foundation which he chaired.
(8) Speakers included a physician, a consultant in genitourinary medicine, and a representative from the Terence Higgins Trust -- a charitable body set up to help people with AIDS.
(9) "Financial aid for this group was usually provided from London under the pretext of charitable donations.
(10) For services to Charitable Fundraising and to the community in Northern Ireland.
(11) In 2010 Becht transferred £110m to his charitable trust, which donates to charities such as Médecins Sans Frontières and Save the Children.
(12) For charitable services to Hope House Children's Hospice, Wrexham.
(13) He has been personally involved since the 2010 World Cup in a charitable project which uses sport to encourage solidarity amongst people of different backgrounds with the central theme that the colour of a person's skin does not matter; they can all play together as a team.
(14) Three days ago, accompanying her husband on his accident-prone American visit, Sarah Brown made a speech, little-noted in Britain, to the Clinton Global Initiative, a charitable and lobbying organisation for liberal causes headed by Bill Clinton.
(15) Why are we only finding out about the logistical horrors of HS2 because of campaigns for information by charitable organisations?
(16) Instead, it comes down to how prepared donors and others are to disrupt the current development model; how prepared we all are to smash the “ charitable industrial complex ”, as Peter Buffet once called it.
(17) Isaacs said that the JI Charitable Trust was a passive investor in Smythson through Kelso Place, the private equity group that helped coordinate the purchase.
(18) He also helped to organise a Woodcraft group, the local Gingerbread group, a charitable furniture scheme and the local credit union.
(19) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
(20) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.