philanthropist

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• He is seeking the help of philanthropists, who can sponsor his son, Hargobind.
• He also established himself as one of the city's most generous philanthropists.
• Next, a row with wealthy philanthropists and charities over a cap on tax relief for charitable giving. Times, Sunday Times
• The organisation is also looking for donations from philanthropists for a suitable site here to have its own building.
• The showpiece will be a collection of about 10,000 personal papers that belonged to Dr. King, which were purchased with a $32 million loan backed by some of Atlanta's biggest philanthropists and corporations. Civil-Rights Gains Test New Memorials' Relevance
• It was here that the Scottish steel baron, who made his fortune in America before turning philanthropist to the poor, threw his famed house parties for the great and the good.
• Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, —uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3—brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down. II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
• Baker-Smith was a philanthropist even at the age of 15 and used borrowed money to buy up art works at the annual end of year art exhibitions.
• Channel 9 news responded that: ‘I believe it was noted philanthropist, philosopher and phrenologist Shaquille O’Neal who said ‘Tell me how my ass tastes.’ Media Coverage October 2009
• One child was in the care of the Misses Beevers, prominent local philanthropists.