How To Use Benefactor In A Sentence

A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
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
Mr Thompson thanked the committee members and those who provided the comforts, as well as benefactors and subscribers.
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
An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money.

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.
It could not have done this without the support of its many sponsors and benefactors.
Dozens of folk had leaky roofs fixed or heating installed without knowing who their benefactor was. Times, Sunday Times
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
The hospital was named in honour of its principal benefactor.
I rate him among my benefactors.
He misspelled "Maecenas," which means a cultural benefactor. Undefined
He then went to look at some property left to the council by a benefactor, an old grain warehouse.
He refers to errors in the generous benefactor to the Club, later becoming President.
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.
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
The local charities found in him a generous benefactor.
Most of the money for repairs came from community businesses and local benefactors.
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
It's important that we not think we'd be munificent benefactors, bringing a sack full of goodies to share.
The museum is supported by private benefactors as well as awards from national entities.
An anonymous benefactor has pledged to match all funds raised. Times, Sunday Times
He founded a cell in both the London and the Coventry charterhouses, and was a visitor to, and benefactor of, the Hull charterhouse.
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
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'
All of this has been made possible by the generous contributions of many benefactors at home and abroad.
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
He was a generous benefactor to oncology research in the UK and abroad, and directly funded many medical students. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The country's main benefactors are the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc - which can supply guns but not bread.
Dot-com fever and a robust economy had money pouring into the museum from longtime benefactors and new supporters alike.
Museum directors and trustees are required to honor the letter and spirit of benefactors' wishes.
He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
As long as his team are performing, there will be little pressure from fans for a takeover from a rich benefactor. Times, Sunday Times
They're getting together a crew and rich benefactors are putting up the money.
An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money.
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
A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
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
Thanksgiving and an acknowledgement of debt and gratitude are the first duties which a beneficiary owes to the benefactor.
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
Unless another rich benefactor was found the club would go under. Times, Sunday Times
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
The Greek cities considered their king as their benefactor, while he himself felt a duty to fulfil this role.
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
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
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.
Fifty four years later the boys and their families came together again to honour their benefactors in the garden at the Manor.
`It's hard to reconcile the femme fatale image with Carrie's sainted benefactor. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
Furthermore, the City of Detroit is the chief benefactor of much indirect revenue sharing.
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
A wealthy benefactor came to their rescue with a generous donation.
Those honoured include celebrated benefactor John Harrison, brewer Joshua Tetley and cricket legend Sir Leonard Hutton.
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
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.
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
We enjoy the fact that he likes to describe himself not as a patron or benefactor but as a literary activist.
The walls and ceiling would be painted with scenes from the Buddha's life and the presentation of gifts by benefactors.
That tradition continues into the present day with numerous benefactors who support the arts and humanities.
An anonymous benefactor has pledged to match all funds raised. Times, Sunday Times
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
Individual benefactors, who wish to remain anonymous, have given generously.
Someone who is this unhinged sounds like the type who might turn on his benefactors.
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.
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.
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
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.
A wealthy benefactor came to their rescue with a generous donation.
to speak thus of her benefactor.
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.. Archive 2009-07-01
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
News that a mystery benefactor has chipped in money to provide City with more time to find a buyer will further boost morale.
The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of happenstance cannot be answered until you make a second film.
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
The second part of the name honours an anonymous benefactor of the research team. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
She was a generous benefactor to the library.
A leading member and benefactor of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, he was secretary and president.
Each clump is named after a different benefactor, and each block in each clump is distinguished by a large capital letter. Mrs. Miniver
The walls and ceiling would be painted with scenes from the Buddha's life and the presentation of gifts by benefactors.
Some parties see him as a munificent benefactor, while others regard him as an agent of sloth. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
Twelve-year-old Tim Ruiter of Centreville, Va., matched Kavya word-for-word until he misspelled "Maecenas," which means a cultural benefactor. Undefined
There is no loathing that any man harbours more intense than that towards his benefactors.
Candidates for discarding might be hunting trophies willed to museums by former benefactors.
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
He took the cross again in 1307 and was a notable benefactor to the Franciscans and Carthusians of his homeland.
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)
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
An anonymous benefactor has pledged to match all funds raised. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, universities and polytechnics commonly derive substantial funding from endowments, or from grants and gifts from foundations and benefactors.
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
The main benefactor from abroad has, since 1924, been the Rockefeller philanthropic empire. Physics in Denmark: The First Four Hundered Years
As charities, independent schools can also use gift aid to reclaim tax on donations from former pupils and benefactors, which can be significant. Times, Sunday Times
‘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.’
It was not just an honorific position for a wealthy benefactor. Times, Sunday Times
They all patently love and cherish the objects entrusted to them by Victorian philanthropists and municipal benefactors.
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
Hm. Depends on whether son/nephew/nepotism-benefactor is getting a paycheck or not. The gatekeeper requires bribes.
He was born in Genoa and a wealthy benefactor helped him to pursue his studies. Times, Sunday Times
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.
New sixth form scholarships have now been created through the work of the School Foundation and generous donations from outside benefactors.
An anonymous benefactor pledged 10,000 to pay her international student fees. Times, Sunday Times
Trustees were walking a tightrope by striving to curb profiteering while keeping generous benefactors happy, she added. Times, Sunday Times
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.
A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
A famous cadger, he had a kamikaze predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.
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.’
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
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.
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
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.
A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
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
So who exactly are our new wealthy benefactors? Times, Sunday Times
The house was invariably crammed with rich benefactors and potential donors. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, the City of Detroit is the chief benefactor of much indirect revenue sharing.
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.
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.
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.
He was a liberal benefactor to many public institutions, and bequeathed some of his estate to the University of Oxford.
An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money.
Can these double-dippers be trusted not to design, execute, and interpret their studies to the benefit their benefactors?
To boil his career, beliefs, and impact down to a rich benefactor is to discredit a great contributor to American history. Damn again « BuzzMachine
To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor to everyone else.
The government and some wealthy benefactors support the arts.
In some cases, the fraudsters have used these details to contact benefactors directly, trying to extract more money.
The days of the club being owned by a wealthy local benefactor have been surpassed by billionaire owners from around the globe. The Sun
John is a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation, and a Benefactor and Charter Member of the Bequest Society.
He was one of the country's most colourful businessmen and generous benefactors. Times, Sunday Times
It was proposed that all benefactors of 20 guineas perannum should be governors while their payments were maintained.
They match rich benefactors with suitable projects. Times, Sunday Times
Unless another rich benefactor was found the club would go under. Times, Sunday Times
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.
She was a generous benefactor to the library.
One of the late owners, one Mr Raines, planted about 1,000 trees and was a generous benefactor to the school.
An anonymous benefactor donated $2 million.
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
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.
His benefactor also made him a goatskin jerkin and a hareskin cap. Times, Sunday Times
Anonymous benefactor offers 20,000 reward for information. The Sun
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.
While geomancing losels are represented in all walks of life, they seem to be most prevalent among politicians and their corporate benefactors.
Wealthy benefactors had signalled their readiness to pay for her release. Times, Sunday Times
The family has been a generous benefactor to charity. Times, Sunday Times
This is where the sugar daddy - a benefactor with a strictly financial vested interest - could step in. Times, Sunday Times
It was not just an honorific position for a wealthy benefactor. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, comparatively few chantries were re-established by pious benefactors, and endowments for masses failed to recover to their pre-Reformation level.
The artist clearly was on familiar terms with this patron and benefactor and portrayed him a number of times.
We do pay the Congress to "scrutinize" things like this, but unfortunately, their corporate benefactors pay them much more to let the corporations do the "scrutinizing" for them. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub.
The country's main benefactors are the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc - which can supply guns but not bread.
It would be especially good if they had a celebration of the birth of their great benefactor. Christianity Today
Voxlauer watches as his Jewish friend and benefactor is driven to ruin. The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray: Book summary
Anonymous benefactor offers 20,000 reward for information. The Sun
Favourable or preferential treatment of nephews suggests that inheritance does not have to wait until the decease of the putative benefactor.
She perceived I had discovered my real benefactor.
God’s mercies here, I may, with my dear benefactor, rejoice in that happy state, where is no mixture, no unsatisfiedness; and where all is joy, and peace, and love, for evermore! Pamela
These minor foundations existed to sing masses for the souls of their benefactors; as such, they encouraged beliefs in purgatory and the merits of requiems, doctrines which Protestants denied.
Regrettably, his relatives and benefactors had neglected to provide him with any money.
Shun4b, who had seconded and guided [the Emperor before he was appointed] and had been his former benefactor, there was added to his enfeoffment [the income of] five hundred households. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
Again, it's probably not illegal, but you'd think that whoever's taking the money would want to know that their benefactor is an anti-Semitic, homophobic whack-job with delusions of grandeur, not to mention the cosmic e-mail box for Hitler and Stalin. June 2004
For I have beheld the atrocities committed by the one we call a benefactor. Shadow Hunters
For a while they remembered their faults and losses; but no sooner were they revived by the hospitable entertainment, than their venom was again inflamed; they stung their benefactor, and neither gardens, nor palaces, nor churches, were safe from their depredations. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Why limit the benefactors of an amendment only to those offended by flag desecration?
He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
Now air ambulance bosses intend to name the new helicopter after their generous benefactor.
Mayor Mike has become increasingly comfortable snuggling up to sleazy corporate benefactors.
Still a teenager, Lou became infatuated with her newfound benefactor and yielded to his seductions.
Indeed, the latter is now one of the academy's most generous benefactors. Times, Sunday Times
Frenchmen from the first days of France have brought their offerings, there is no doubt about the intentions of countless benefactors; they have made their gifts conditionally, that is, on the condition that the endowment should remain intact, and that each successive beneficiary should merely serve as the administrator of it. The French Revolution - Volume 1
He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
Let us comfort ourselves by thinking that Louis Quatorze in all his glory held his revels in the dark, and bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind, for banishing the abominable mutton of our youth. The Virginians
Occasionally they may list benefactors to the monastery, specifying their particular contribution to work on the fabric, or record a wage or corrody to a building craftsman.
The house was invariably crammed with rich benefactors and potential donors. Times, Sunday Times
He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
Similarly, comparatively few chantries were re-established by pious benefactors, and endowments for masses failed to recover to their pre-Reformation level.
The manager would be forgiven for wondering what kind of billionaire benefactor he is working for. Times, Sunday Times
Zurich was congratulated on the possession of a Paragon of public virtue; and William Tell, in the character of benefactor to Switzerland, was compared disadvantageously with Mrs. Lecount. No Name
He was a liberal benefactor to many public institutions, and bequeathed some of his estate to the University of Oxford.
The move would make the 61-year-old tycoon one of Britain's most generous benefactors.
Some parties see him as a munificent benefactor, while others regard him as an agent of sloth. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
He was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall.
The second part of the name honours an anonymous benefactor of the research team. Times, Sunday Times
The row of almshouses, once described by English Heritage as one of the most important unrestored buildings in the South West, was built in 1668 by benefactor Lady Margaret Hungerford, who lived at Corsham Court.
Thanksgiving and an acknowledgement of debt and gratitude are the first duties which a beneficiary owes to the benefactor.
He was a generous benefactor to charitable institutions in Baltimore.
I'm just looking for a pretty generous benefactor to make it happen. The Sun
Then, a shadowy benefactor from the east made a copy available to me. VinceKeenan.com
Why limit the benefactors of an amendment only to those offended by flag desecration?
‘At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn't lift a finger,’ he said.
Now the school is hoping that a sponsor or a benefactor will come forward to help to meet the costs so that Yorkshire can be represented in the final.
The benefactor of a chorus was called a choregus, and generally was a wealthy man who paid a teacher and trainer to drill the chorus. Ask MetaFilter
Then, once a generous benefactor had been found, he started karting and his career was launched.
Hoop Dreams, Stevie, and Reel Paradise cover a broad range of subject matter, but they all have to do with what benefactors owe to the people they help.
It would be remiss of me not to recognise the contributions of our benefactors and the support of our social partners.
He then went to look at some property left to the council by a benefactor, an old grain warehouse.
A wealthy benefactor came to their rescue with a generous donation.
And I'm pretty sure that my mysterious benefactor is someone who reads this journal. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
However, the most important element in our survival has always been our loyal subscribers and benefactors.

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