Sentence examples for benefaction from inspiring English sources

Many museums were founded through private benefaction, and a few have endowments that help to support their routine operation.

The Neighborhood Playhouse was opened in connection with the settlement in 1915 through the benefaction of Irene Lewisohn.

The Tate Britain, located on the Millbank in the borough of Westminster, resulted from the benefaction of sugar tycoon Sir Henry Tate (1819 99), who gave both the building and his art collection to the nation.

Any suggestion of royal benefaction thus resulted in the revival of the "myth" of the vastly generous monarch.

In the beginning, her major benefaction to him was simply financial — she gave him money, she paid his rent.

Ultimately, unless outside benefaction comes in, there is only one possible source: other students' fees.

To achieve that goal, he advised, "We should cease to talk about vague and … unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization," and must "deal in straight power concepts", not "hampered by idealistic slogans" about "altruism and world-benefaction".

What about what's in the boxes?In this section Giving for results When the poor catch up Strength in a smile Life in the shadow Pyongyang confidential Tall tales ReprintsSome 470,000 objects, the holdings of several former museums and collectors' benefactions, belong to the MAS.

Benefactions from the Monument Trust have allowed the Fitzwilliam to commission new display cases of non-reflective glass.

Buy from Amazon.comJOHN D. ROCKEFELLER responded both to his own Baptist faith and to widespread criticism of his business methods by making some of the most generous and the best directed benefactions in the history of philanthropy in America.

Since then, Goldman Sachs has launched the Center for Environmental Markets to further market-based solutions to environmental challenges, and has sponsored a partnership between the WCS and the University of California, focused on establishing marine protected areas in Chile.Not every protected area can depend on such grand benefactions; smaller-scale partnerships are on the rise, too.