The phrase "alms for" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is often used in religious or historical contexts to refer to charitable donations given to the poor or needy. Example: The church is collecting alms for the homeless shelter in town.
The ceremony is called jhator, which means "alms for the birds".
He gave away $140m, including $20m to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Mr Tose did not see himself as that sort of philanthropist, assembling alms for oblivion.
The new containers offered a place to hold the materials of community and ritual: food for sharing, incense for burning, water for irrigation, wine for sacrament, alms for the poor.
The Economist is in good company in arguing for unilateral reforms to benefit the trade of the poorest countries: "alms for the poor" is the cry of every Sabbath preacher and G7 summiteer.
Open from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday 6 a.m. 3) ALMS FOR THE MONKS Giving alms to the streaming line of monks as dawn breaks is one of Luang Prabang's main draws.
"Cathartes Aura" (the title refers to the vultures that eat the discarded bodies) describes the imagined preparation of Levin's mother for sky burial: What is the body but a bag of alms for the Infection-Eaters, who will cleanse the corpse to the bone — Sever her arm.
But it is not only unseemly for wealthy Europeans to be looking for alms from China, it is bad policy.
Many of the most striking are scenes of every day life – of monks queuing for alms, of Buddhist statues in the jungle and of frenetic football matches.
She begged for alms and foraged for fruit.
Behind me, lost in cloud, the immense mountain wall breathed cold air down my neck and the words of the poet Francisco Icaza, speaking for a poor beggar, went through my mind: "Give him alms, woman/ For there is nothing in life, nothing/ So sad as to be blind in Granada".
The gold coins are of uncertain use but may have been struck to be used as alms or for gifts to Rome.
