Sentence examples for beneficiary himself from inspiring English sources

He also makes a point of passing on his old kit to the students, having been a grateful young beneficiary himself before he broke into the Wellington provincial side alongside Jonah Lomu.

Đính wrote to Diệm to complain that his units were being weakened by the policy of promoting officers for political reasons, despite having been a beneficiary himself of this non-merit-based policy.

Camenisch (1981), for instance, suggests that thanking might sometimes be a commissive a speech-act through which a beneficiary commits himself to developing grateful beliefs, feelings and other dispositions that he may not have at the time of thanking.

There is an immediate beneficiary, though: Ackman himself.

And yet, intuitively, a beneficiary who takes himself to have no reason to do a good turn for a benefactor upon realizing he won't get credit for it seems to fall short of gratitude.

Next door to Kenya, Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, himself the beneficiary of a constitutional fiddle to give himself a third term, has been alone in granting full support.

A few years ago, an economist named Richard Florida found himself the beneficiary of this syndrome.

The resulting scandal led to the dismissal by Mr Mbeki of the agency's head, Billy Masetlha.Earlier Mr Mbeki was himself the beneficiary of the intelligence agencies' investigations.

Justice Thomas, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action at Yale Law School, compiled a respectable record at what is arguably the country's most elite law school.

Both men want to be president; neither is short on ego; their paths toward the nomination have been unlikely enough that each can think himself the beneficiary of some special providence.

(Mr Leung is himself a beneficiary of manipulated elections: he was chosen by a largely pro-party committee in 2012, collecting 689 votes along with the derisive nickname "689").