(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(4) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(5) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(6) The only explanation he can come up with is that Cameron is worried about his legacy.
(7) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(8) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(9) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
(10) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
(11) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(12) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(13) "We are not leaving them an adequate legacy of homes.
(14) "EA's next CEO inherits a company beset by a broad range of legacy problems created not just by difficult retail market conditions but also by its own hand," says Nick Gibson an analyst at Games Investor Consulting Ltd. "It has been too eager to use major acquisitions – Jamdat, Playfish, Bioware, PopCap etc – to try to accelerate growth or gain early leadership positions in emerging markets, often overpaying by substantial amounts for companies that subsequently fail to deliver what EA expected they would."
(15) This is why in the end it won’t be the euro or the Ukrainian war that defines Merkel’s legacy.
(16) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
(17) Commercialised … one of the new murals commissioned by the Legacy List, by Dutch collective Graphic Surgery.
(18) A key part of the legacy vision espoused by Lord Coe that helped to win the Games was the promise to use the 2012 Olympics to inspire more young people to play sport.
(19) The legacy of half a century of the voting rights struggle also hangs in the balance.
(20) He is currently writing Pan-Africanism: A History Facebook Twitter Pinterest Juliet Gardiner: ‘Britain’s greatly diminished power will be his legacy’ In 1848, the French politician Ledru Rollin is reputed to have said: “There go the people.
Patrimony
Definition:
(n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
(n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphological platelet transformations corresponding to functional attitudes, need of energetic pattern given by the content, in platelets, of enzymatic patrimony.
(2) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
(3) Pixadores have also tarnished sites that are part of the city’s historic patrimony, including the Ramos de Azevedo fountain in downtown São Paulo.
(4) The foods that constituted the core of the diet of the Americas before 1492--from maize to potatoes, beans to tomatoes, to numerous other fruits and vegetables--became the true patrimony that the inhabitants of the New World bequeathed to humanity.
(5) The struggle reflects a tension over the legitimacy of what Nepalis call 'source force', defined here as the use of patrimonialism within a bureaucratic structure.
(6) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
(7) The indications found in the examination lead to the conclusion that those who are predisposed to a certain type of delinquency, greater or lesser, (for example, towards crimes against the patrimony, especially if recidivous) continued to commit crimes at the same rhythm, or even in some cases at a greater rhythm, while those who may have fallen only rarely into crime (particularly women) tended to relapse less into crime.
(8) But they expressed surprise that the Holy See’s regulators had not yet made full inspections of either the Vatican ‘bank’ or the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the department that manages the papacy’s assets.
(9) What occurs if some languages are known since very early childhood, and belong to a pre-symbolic structural patrimony closely bound to bodily sensations and concrete experiences?
(10) By the time the Mail, Telegraph and the rest go to town with mendacious scare stories, every ordinary homeowner will imagine any new wealth tax will steal away their children's patrimony.
(11) It is pointed out the value of the antibodies patrimony in existence in healthy persons, in order to prevent the diseases caused by virus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
(12) The Turkish legal team may argue that because the Convention is a living instrument, it should be interpreted in light of current international law including the UNESCO heritage conventions and other Governmental statements about not depriving countries of their cultural patrimony.
(13) "I've sought to take music, which is usually a luxury item, and turn it into cultural patrimony accessible to all".
(14) He had already been suspended from his job as an accountant in the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (Apsa) and, after his arrest, his IOR accounts were ordered to be frozen by the Vatican's promoter of justice .
(15) The subsequent information campaign attempted to adapt its message to each category identified, taking into consideration economic and psychosocial factors, the attachment of the population to its culinary patrimony, and the pejorative vision of dietetics perceived by part of the population.
(16) And if this is at the expense of the patrimony or easy goodwill of others, then so be it.
(17) The new museum is a fusion of this one and patrimony of the School of Medicine and the ancient San Vicente Hospital.
(18) Mennini heads a special unit inside the Vatican called the extraordinary division of APSA – Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica – which handles the so-called "patrimony of the Holy See".
(19) These organisations would rather spend money with less old-style patrimony and more savvy in the vagaries of modern markets.
(20) The compensation awarded to the victim will consist of an overvalued extra-patrimonial damage which will eventually be able to balance a low physiological deficit price.