Sentence examples similar to at benevolence from inspiring English sources

Self-interest was "not as lofty as benevolence", but "in the marketplace at least it was more reliable and practical – and moral as well".

"We are in a situation where our safety net is literally at the benevolence of the city," she said.

Back on the 11th floor, Antyufeyev is coming to the end of an impassioned rant about how Ukraine is an "artificially constructed country" existing only at the benevolence of Russia's guarantee of its territorial integrity.

This kind of celebratory pardon, that marks the change in executives, as opposed to those based on meritorious consideration of a legal request for pardon based on changed circumstances or new evidence, is a fascinating reminder of the "old logic" of punishment, when the power to punish was an expression of personal sovereignty and its remission a sign of benevolence at the top.

But Mr. Mendelsohn, still ingenuous at 45, tends toward benevolence: he suspends rather than expels broadcast miscreants.

Downsizing and corporate restructuring hit hard at the enlightened benevolence of weak firms.

The directors smiled with smug benevolence at this rum assembly of little shareholders.

All of these are supposed to show extensive benevolence at work.

This is benevolence at its best.

What was the reason for this Israeli "benevolence" at a time when hundreds of foreigners coming to visit Palestine are denied entry at the King Hussein Bridge?

And yet, oblivious to the logic that atheism cannot be any more epistemologically verifiable than theism, the shortsighted Modernist could see in religion only the causes of factionalism, persecution and perpetual warfare, not the quest for the authenticity and benevolence at the heart of society.