Sentence examples for a large benefactor from inspiring English sources

The athletic programme was like a large benefactor to the university and local community.

He has since become a large benefactor to foundations backed by Mr. Soros.

While in 2008 Imperial Business School dropped the name of Gary Tanaka, a large benefactor, so that it could re-emphasise its links to Imperial College.

Bruce is a large benefactor of The Washington Ballet.

In 1639 the Massachusetts General Court decreed that the school be named Harvard College in gratitude to its first large benefactor.

It has been under pressure to name large benefactors in keeping with the spirit of a new law requiring disclosure of all gifts over $7,500.

After the Dumbo festival ends on Sunday, "The Ship of Tolerance" will remain on the Brooklyn waterfront for a week, then travel on the barge to Roosevelt Island and, finally, to the Atlantic Salt yard on Staten Island, a nod to the project's largest benefactor, Miller's Launch.

During the two-hour meeting, Leonard A. Lauder — the Whitney's chairman emeritus and largest benefactor, and until now an opponent of the project — surprised everyone by voting in favor of the new building.

"Her bitterness and hostility towards a new house is baffling," said Robert Wilson, who, aside from being the former chairman of City Opera and its largest benefactor, has pledged $50 million toward a new City Opera house at ground zero or anywhere else outside Lincoln Center that is deemed to make financial sense.

To work with the international community and its largest benefactor, the US, to find a way to live where it has chosen making peaceful deals with its neighbors that are fair and aligned.

The Blacks' largest benefactor on Involved Fan has been Mark Goodman, a Boston-based entrepreneur, who played on the Harvard varsity team in the 1980s.