How To Use Benefact In A Sentence
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The bieing innate of a battery based upon peoples entrance to fast as well as postulated for benefaction needs.
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A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
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She wasted a great part of the royal treasury for her benefactions!
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Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's.
REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
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His total benefactions - including more than 2,800 Carnegie libraries - amounted to $350 million.
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The giving of money is, of course, only one kind of benefaction, and not the highest kind, which is the giving of self; but the good which these gifts have rendered possible is beyond calculation.
American Men of Mind
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Mr Thompson thanked the committee members and those who provided the comforts, as well as benefactors and subscribers.
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Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firmaun" appointed him to the vacant pachalik.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money.
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Many claims and counterclaims were advertised about who the real market leader was and who was the benefactor of the readers and protected the consumer's wallet.
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It could not have done this without the support of its many sponsors and benefactors.
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Dozens of folk had leaky roofs fixed or heating installed without knowing who their benefactor was.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the programme, rich benefactors say goodbye to their luxury lifestyles and go undercover in deprived areas to find organisations that need their help.
Times, Sunday Times
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I shall be an old woman then, and should, it may be, have less objection to being known as his benefactress than at present.
A Romantic Young Lady
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Refounded in 1602 on the site of the earlier university library, it has since 1604 borne by royal decree the name of the remarkable man whose endowment remains the greatest benefaction ever received by the University of Oxford.
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The hospital was named in honour of its principal benefactor.
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I rate him among my benefactors.
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He misspelled "Maecenas," which means a cultural benefactor.
Undefined
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He then went to look at some property left to the council by a benefactor, an old grain warehouse.
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He refers to errors in the generous benefactor to the Club, later becoming President.
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Benefactress! benefactress!" said I inwardly: "they all call Mrs. Reed my benefactress; if so, a benefactress is a disagreeable thing.
Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.
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How I hate that man," was the writer C.S. Lewis's tart comment on Lord Nuffield, his city's greatest entrepreneur and his university's most generous benefactor.
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The father benefacted his daughter in more ways than she was aware of
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Public institutions, such as gymnasia, were endowed by wealthy benefactors, often royal, and supervised by public officials.
5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E
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Allowing for inflation, religious benefactions dropped from a total of over £80,000 in 1501-10 to under £2,000 in 1591-1600.
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The local charities found in him a generous benefactor.
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It is not likely that this selfish and unwarlike pedant -- a "nithing", as they probably called him -- had ever been aught but a most unwelcome necessity to the lion-hearted Ostrogoths, and for all but the families and friends of the three slain noblemen, the imprisonment and the permitted murder of his benefactress must have deepened dislike into horror.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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‘I was brought up by the country, and I am always thinking of repaying the benefaction with my little contribution,’ Chen said.
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Most of the money for repairs came from community businesses and local benefactors.
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Other innovations include campaigns that target the parents of students, encourage alumni to remember the university in their will, or ask benefactors to sponsor poor students.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's important that we not think we'd be munificent benefactors, bringing a sack full of goodies to share.
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The museum is supported by private benefactors as well as awards from national entities.
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Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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By such benefactions artists seek to pay some of their dues.
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An anonymous benefactor has pledged to match all funds raised.
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Permit me now to render my portion of the general debt of gratitude, by acknowledgements in advance for the singular benefaction which is the subject of this letter, to tender my wishes for the continuance of a life so usefully employed, and to add the assurances of my perfect esteem and respect.
Letters
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He founded a cell in both the London and the Coventry charterhouses, and was a visitor to, and benefactor of, the Hull charterhouse.
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It is worth examining these benefactions carefully in order to determine from whence individual things came.
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While I am glad Professor Bernstein flagged up the article, I hope this article is not typical of Professor Rubin’s work product, because if it is, then I wonder whether the money of the institution’s good benefactors is being all that well spent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
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West of Scotland supplied with work by a benevolent aristocrat, his expectation that a grateful peasantry will bless their benefactor is rudely dashed (II, 32).
Notes on 'Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism'
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All of this has been made possible by the generous contributions of many benefactors at home and abroad.
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He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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He was a generous benefactor to oncology research in the UK and abroad, and directly funded many medical students.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is however predictable that she is particularly good at elucidating the influences on Joyce of all the female members of his family and those of his patrons and benefactors.
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The country's main benefactors are the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc - which can supply guns but not bread.
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Dot-com fever and a robust economy had money pouring into the museum from longtime benefactors and new supporters alike.
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Museum directors and trustees are required to honor the letter and spirit of benefactors' wishes.
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He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
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As long as his team are performing, there will be little pressure from fans for a takeover from a rich benefactor.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're getting together a crew and rich benefactors are putting up the money.
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An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money.
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Most infuriating to the onlooker was the fact that Minto Mrs. Moore never gave the faintest hint of gratitude: indeed she regarded herself as J's benefactor: presumably on the grounds that she had rescued him from the twin evils of bachelordom and matrimony at one fell swoop!
On Mrs. Moore
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A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
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Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder
Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
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Thanksgiving and an acknowledgement of debt and gratitude are the first duties which a beneficiary owes to the benefactor.
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The other way in which a disposition to help can evolve requires that episodes of helping behavior are part of a longer term reciprocal strategy in which the organism that is the beneficiary of helping behavior is disposed to help its benefactor on some subsequent occasion.
Hanging
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Unless another rich benefactor was found the club would go under.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through the generosity of wealthy patrons, Leary had set up his own “research” center, the Castalia Foundation, on the giant estate of his benefactors.
The Typewriter Is Holy
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The Greek cities considered their king as their benefactor, while he himself felt a duty to fulfil this role.
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The ancient privilege of coining money at Canterbury was restored to him and his successors by Richard I, and he was a great benefactor to his cathedral.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Generous benefactors, like Sir Richard Whittington, frequently contributed to the cost, and sometimes a tax called murage was levied for the purpose which was collected by officers named muragers.
Vanishing England
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His only connections seem to have been indirect, formed by associations with other Florentines known to have supported the monastery, including one of the monastery's most important benefactors of the late trecento.
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St. John comes to visit her at the end of that first day, upon which occasion Jane meets the benefactress of the schoolhouse and some charitable acts of the Parish - Miss Oliver.
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Fifty four years later the boys and their families came together again to honour their benefactors in the garden at the Manor.
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`It's hard to reconcile the femme fatale image with Carrie's sainted benefactor.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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Election should be by secret ballot; a cabinet recommended a two-thirds certain opinion of those benefaction when a opinion is taken.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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For, all these, of course, are exceptions; and the rule and hodiernal life of a good man is benefaction.
XI. Essays. Character. 1844
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There is an unquestioned element of benefaction in this plan.
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He also promised to promote her son, then studying at Cambridge, to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions.
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Furthermore, the City of Detroit is the chief benefactor of much indirect revenue sharing.
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As many record labels atrophied over the past decade, artists have found benefactors in brands—and some of those brands have gotten savvy about insinuating themselves in the culture.
Getting to Music's Heart and Rubber Soul
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A wealthy benefactor came to their rescue with a generous donation.
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Those honoured include celebrated benefactor John Harrison, brewer Joshua Tetley and cricket legend Sir Leonard Hutton.
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My second example is the recent establishment of a professorship of Modern Arabic, made possible by a benefaction from the Sultan of Oman.
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At last, when they were going to fire the cannon to which Choiseul was fixed, the captain threw himself on the body of his friend, and closely embracing him in his arms, said to the cannonier, "Fire! since I cannot serve my benefactor, I shall at least have the consolation of dying with him.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
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John Barton was the great benefactor who paid for the town's first schoolteacher and who later renounced his worldly goods and became an Observant Friar.
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She believes Willoughby is engaged to Marianne, but unsure of how to tell his benefactress; he has instead followed her orders to leave.
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Also, although Molinier seems to contest this usage ( "Les Obituaires francais", p. 22), such a collection of names, consisting largely of benefactors, was occasionally called liber vitae (book of life).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The new Foundation will receive a benefaction of £10 million from the Rhodes Trust, and will focus on the areas of education, governance, healthcare, environmental protection, law and sport.
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We enjoy the fact that he likes to describe himself not as a patron or benefactor but as a literary activist.
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The walls and ceiling would be painted with scenes from the Buddha's life and the presentation of gifts by benefactors.
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Those without political ambitions would point to their record of public service and, if wealthy, to their public and private benefactions.
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I'm going to look at applicatives and benefactives shortly.
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That tradition continues into the present day with numerous benefactors who support the arts and humanities.
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It would be safer, perhaps, to let the suspicion rest upon that gentleman's memory, of having indulged his own benevolent disposition in this disguise, than to suppose it possible that so scanty and reluctant a benefaction was the sole mark of attention accorded by a "gracious Prince and Master
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02
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The poem is included in the testimonial letter signed ‘Allida,’ where it is described as having been received by another of Frado's white benefactresses.
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These conferences are made possible through the benefaction of the Barrow Cadbury Trust.
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An anonymous benefactor has pledged to match all funds raised.
Times, Sunday Times
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So strictly, it would seem, do the mass of mankind confine the term brave and good to those who are the benefactors of themselves.
Hellenica
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Individual benefactors, who wish to remain anonymous, have given generously.
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Someone who is this unhinged sounds like the type who might turn on his benefactors.
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Full-throated support by China was too much to expect, analysts say, because the country is North Korea's chief economic benefactor and political ally.
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A common (but not universal) view in Asia of how aid should be managed is to allow benefactor nations leeway to implement their own reforms.
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The people realized the philanthropy was the way to solve poverty problem, preserve the social order and rebuild society more than the tool of performing benefaction and moral domestication.
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This term evidently implies, not only that special honor is due to the recipients of such fees, but besides that the services they render are too noble to be measured in money values, and therefore the money offered is rather in the form of a tribute to a benefactor than of pecuniary compensation for a definite amount of service rendered.
Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
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At Adelaide, Henderson taught imperial and colonial history, and arranged for a local benefactor to endow a prize for work on South Australian history written from the original records.
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A wealthy benefactor came to their rescue with a generous donation.
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There he found his benefactress, the Baronne de Warens, who gave him the education that turned him into a philosopher.
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to speak thus of her benefactor.
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From Moti Katla I came to my host and benefactor Peersab Fakhru Miyas house dropped all my stuff and came to meet him at his spiritual darbar Hujra no 6, I paid my respects to him,at the Hujra , taking his permission I wandered out, collected my camera from his house , as photography is totally banned in the Dargah premises..
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You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species; your name adored, as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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News that a mystery benefactor has chipped in money to provide City with more time to find a buyer will further boost morale.
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The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of happenstance cannot be answered until you make a second film.
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Or are they double-edged swords? awards that demand feelings of gratitude towards southern benefactors as day-to-day problems are swept swiftly under the "untamed" carpet?
No more wild stereotypes about Shetland
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The second part of the name honours an anonymous benefactor of the research team.
Times, Sunday Times
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He came up to me, as if knowing his benefactor by instinct, looking curiously about him, and curling and retracting his flexile snout and lip, after the manner of his kind.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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She neighed at the presentation of a glass pony and described the benefactor as the most gorgeous woman with legs as tall as skyscrapers.
Salutes to the Creative Class
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She was a generous benefactor to the library.
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A leading member and benefactor of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, he was secretary and president.
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Each clump is named after a different benefactor, and each block in each clump is distinguished by a large capital letter.
Mrs. Miniver
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The walls and ceiling would be painted with scenes from the Buddha's life and the presentation of gifts by benefactors.
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We decided that it would be wrong to make an exception even for such an exceptional benefaction.
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Some parties see him as a munificent benefactor, while others regard him as an agent of sloth.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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Twelve-year-old Tim Ruiter of Centreville, Va., matched Kavya word-for-word until he misspelled "Maecenas," which means a cultural benefactor.
Undefined
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There is no loathing that any man harbours more intense than that towards his benefactors.
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Candidates for discarding might be hunting trophies willed to museums by former benefactors.
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Goldsmith was certainly more at home in this sort of writing, than in gravely lecturing people against the vice of gambling; in warning tradesmen how ill it became them to be seen at races; in demonstrating that justice is a higher virtue than generosity; and in proving that the avaricious are the true benefactors of society.
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series
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For Symphony No 4 Tchaikovsky produced his own programme to satisfy the curiosity of his invisible benefactress, Mme von Meck.
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He took the cross again in 1307 and was a notable benefactor to the Franciscans and Carthusians of his homeland.
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For Love itself, the benefactor of things that be, pre-existing overflowingly in the Good, did not permit itself to remain unproductive in itself, but moved itself to creation [36], as befits the overflow which is generative of all.
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897)
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In Katmandu I caught rumors of a couple in the uplands who lived a kind of baronial existence among tribespeople whose benefactors and teachers they were.
The Boat of a Million Years
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To these articles of intelligence she added, that the name of her benefactress was the celebrated Lady —, to whose character the youth was no stranger, though he had never seen her person before.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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As I learned in writing Virtue, Valor, and Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame, Alexander Hamilton was no less ambitious than Ryan Seacrest -- but to Hamilton and the other founders, fame was different then from what it is now, attainable only through civic benefaction, which is to say, only through taking steps to make life better for others.
Eric Burns: The Founding Celebrities
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A large proportion of their income comes from benefactions.
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As a new kind of benefactress, she designs simple but elegant clothing for the working class.
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An anonymous benefactor has pledged to match all funds raised.
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In addition, universities and polytechnics commonly derive substantial funding from endowments, or from grants and gifts from foundations and benefactors.
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Accordingly she returned home and acquainted the girl with what had taken place adding, "O my daughter, verily the Basha loveth thee and his wish is to wed thee: he hath been a benefactor to us, and thou wilt never meet his like; for that he is deeply enamoured of thee and the byword saith, 'Reward of lover is return of love.'
Arabian nights. English
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The main benefactor from abroad has, since 1924, been the Rockefeller philanthropic empire.
Physics in Denmark: The First Four Hundered Years
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As charities, independent schools can also use gift aid to reclaim tax on donations from former pupils and benefactors, which can be significant.
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And accordingly the latest writers on this subject have relinquished that accusation; they no longer charge the old pedagogue with such an effort of genius; they confine themselves to accusing him of ingratitude towards his benefactress, which is as much as to say that a little personal favour, even when well earned, is to compel a man to shut his eyes henceforward to the character and conduct of the person who has conferred it, and that both patriotic feeling and political policy are to be quenched by a pension, which is a strange view.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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‘Let us hope,’ wrote the chronicler about this man, ‘that he is not only our temporal benefactor but that he is also our intercessor in heaven.’
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It was not just an honorific position for a wealthy benefactor.
Times, Sunday Times
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They all patently love and cherish the objects entrusted to them by Victorian philanthropists and municipal benefactors.
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There have always been among the refuse of our literature, some of those wretches who have sold their pens and caballed against their very benefactors.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Hm. Depends on whether son/nephew/nepotism-benefactor is getting a paycheck or not.
The gatekeeper requires bribes.
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He was born in Genoa and a wealthy benefactor helped him to pursue his studies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lavish donations outside Palestine established Herod as a benefactor on an empire-wide scale, as well as a flamboyant philhellene; the Olympian games and the city of Athens were among the beneficiaries.
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Ignoring for the moment any controversies regarding a proper translation of the phrase śacni cilθl, I would like to suggest that pattern A effectively translates as "for the [śacni cilθl], for the city and for the people everlasting" (locative -e + -ri = purposive/benefactive), pattern B means "to the [śacni cilθl] (and) to the city everlasting" (directive -is + -tra-is involves an action directed towards these things) and pattern C states "to the [śacni cilθl], to the city and to the people everlasting" (attributive -s/-l, implying an act of offering or dedication).
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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New sixth form scholarships have now been created through the work of the School Foundation and generous donations from outside benefactors.
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A large proportion of their income comes from benefactions.
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An anonymous benefactor pledged 10,000 to pay her international student fees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trustees were walking a tightrope by striving to curb profiteering while keeping generous benefactors happy, she added.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lions centre Matt Nanyn was the chief benefactor from the 14-try rout as three tries and nine goals gave him a haul of 30 points to equal the club record for points in a match.
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A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
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A famous cadger, he had a kamikaze predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.
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One East German poet included a portrayal of Prometheus not as benefactor but as ‘the enemy who brought war and inequality into the once paradisal world and produced human misfortune by offending the gods.’
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Poor people could not always afford candles, and one of the cathedral deans, Andrew Kilkenny, came to their rescue with a benefaction.
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Nay, foemen in war, it must be granted, especially when of fair and noble type, have many times ere now proved benefactors to those they have enslaved.
Oeconomicus
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The act of being robed in white by the heavenly benefactor speaks of the divine patron bestowing honor upon them in their hour of shame.
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It is left to us to keep their generous benefaction alive, and our blessed, beautiful country worthy of their courage.
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The Wanderer," pitying the fortunes and miseries of the author, yet his ungovernable temper and depraved propensities, which led to his embruing his hands in blood, his ingratitude to his patrons and benefactors, (but chiefly to Pope,) and his degraded misemployment of talents which might have raised him to the capital of the proud column of intellect of that day, -- all conduce to petrify the tear of mingled mercy and compassion, which the misfortunes of such a being might otherwise demand.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
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They make a big thing about their reliance on benefactors, and every ten years or so, they invite their ex-students back for a nice slap-up meal and a bit of a speech to remind us how to leave them money in our wills.
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A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
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The misery of the times had reduced the nobles and matrons of Rome to accept, without a blush, the benevolence of the church: three thousand virgins received their food and raiment from the hand of their benefactor; and many bishops of Italy escaped from the Barbarians to the hospitable threshold of the Vatican.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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So who exactly are our new wealthy benefactors?
Times, Sunday Times
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The house was invariably crammed with rich benefactors and potential donors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furthermore, the City of Detroit is the chief benefactor of much indirect revenue sharing.
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The beater syndrome is a form of commensalism - the unilateral transfer of benefits from one species to another at little or no cost to the benefactor.
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But it is too much that the benefactors of mankind, after having been reviled by the dunces of their own generation for going too far, should be reviled by the dunces of the next generation for not going far enough.
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If any kind benefactor will allow them the use of a warehouse or suitable building for approximately six months - it must have good access - they'd love to hear from you.
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Permit me now to render my portion of the general debt of gratitude, by acknowledgments in advance for the singular benefaction which is the subject of this letter, to tender my wishes for the continuance of a life so usefully employed, and to add the assurances of my perfect esteem and respect.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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He was a liberal benefactor to many public institutions, and bequeathed some of his estate to the University of Oxford.
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An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money.
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A woman of intelligence and learning, she was a benefactress of the Queen's College, Oxford.
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Can these double-dippers be trusted not to design, execute, and interpret their studies to the benefit their benefactors?
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The former is attributive (with benefactive nuance here), and the latter is directive (indicating motion towards) with the addition of a postposition -tra which itself is declined.
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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To boil his career, beliefs, and impact down to a rich benefactor is to discredit a great contributor to American history.
Damn again « BuzzMachine
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To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor to everyone else.
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The government and some wealthy benefactors support the arts.
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In some cases, the fraudsters have used these details to contact benefactors directly, trying to extract more money.
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Here appears a little rosy-cheeked boy with a basket of chestnuts; or a care-worn mother, pale and thin, but with a grateful eye presenting to her benefactrice a few small, fragrant cheeses, made of goat's milk; and there is an old man, hobbling upon crutches, with a basket of apples from his orchard.
Madame Roland, Makers of History
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The days of the club being owned by a wealthy local benefactor have been surpassed by billionaire owners from around the globe.
The Sun
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John is a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation, and a Benefactor and Charter Member of the Bequest Society.
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He was one of the country's most colourful businessmen and generous benefactors.
Times, Sunday Times
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As one of his biographers noted, the statistics of his benefactions alone are mind-numbing.
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Tchaikovsky wrote that in 1878, after the completion of his fourth 2)symphony, in a letter to his benefactress, Nadezhda Von Meck, the widow of an industrialist.
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It was proposed that all benefactors of 20 guineas perannum should be governors while their payments were maintained.
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They match rich benefactors with suitable projects.
Times, Sunday Times
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And now tell me who is the lady whom Mr. Brocklehurst called your benefactress?
Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.
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Unless another rich benefactor was found the club would go under.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not think there is anything insurmountably difficult or impossible about getting men to understand one or two simple propositions which they do not understand now, that is, the benefaction to any community of the recognized money-maker.
Australia and Her Post-War Problem
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Through our museums and galleries we have an obligation to conserve and restore the great works of art handed down to us by previous generations of benefactors.
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She was a generous benefactor to the library.
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They may never through life hear her name, but she is not the less their benefactress.
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One of the late owners, one Mr Raines, planted about 1,000 trees and was a generous benefactor to the school.
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An anonymous benefactor donated $2 million.
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Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firman" appointed him to the vacant pachalik.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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In fact there is an ambiguity to several of these benefactions.
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Having installed various Indian statesmen, religious figures and public benefactors in place of sundry British sovereigns, viceroys and generals, we have cheerfully proceeded to forget them.
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His benefactor also made him a goatskin jerkin and a hareskin cap.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anonymous benefactor offers 20,000 reward for information.
The Sun
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He was president of the Stanford University, a private benefaction of the times.
Chapter 1: My Eagle
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As late as Shakespeare's plays we find allusions to medieval ‘beadsmen,’ that is, persons pensioned to ‘pray the beads’ on behalf of a benefactor.
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Occasionally, a great private patron with local connections might favour the town with a benefaction or by acting as friend at court.
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The relations cognisance of a arise gave those benefaction a taste of what a Society's reason up was identical to a century ago (although nonetheless a cigars commonly smoked by members afterwards after a light repast during a finish of readings).
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Mary's subsequent search for Michael and her development into a genuine benefactress take up most of the remainder of the novel, along with Michael's struggles within and outside of Deep Valley and his own political coming of age.
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While geomancing losels are represented in all walks of life, they seem to be most prevalent among politicians and their corporate benefactors.
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Wealthy benefactors had signalled their readiness to pay for her release.
Times, Sunday Times
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The family has been a generous benefactor to charity.
Times, Sunday Times
