As educators and benevolent emancipators, they attempted to transform Chinese women into self-sufficient middle-class professional women just like themselves.
The guarded though increasingly liberal attempt by benevolent despots to nationalize and expand education is well illustrated by the events in Russia.
David Brooks's analogy between the Civil War and the Iraq war implies that the Iraq war is deeply benevolent -- a determined attempt to give Arabs the gift of democracy.
These views correspond with Pargament and colleagues who refer to benevolent religious reappraisals as an attempt to redefine a stressor as having spiritual benefit and an opportunity to grow spiritually [ 34].
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
Historic attempts to use these ideas to suppress democratic discussion of positive social change should make us wary of attempts to resurrect them for benevolent purposes".
It is, in other words, a justification for China's "liberation" of Tibet from feudal serfdom and an attempt to cast Beijing as the benevolent elder brother.
Such responses might be interpreted by the benefactor as "payment" for the "gift", and might be taken as an attempt to reject the benefit qua benevolent gift or favor.
Calvin's view was the most radical, in terms of theodicy — that is, the attempt to reconcile the existence of evil with a benevolent and omnipotent God.
I've really been looking forward to this one". And, finally, it arrived but when it did so, and as is so often the case, Agnew/Allen turned out to be more about the interviewer than the interviewee as Aggers attempted to walk the dangerously thin line between benevolent uncle and desperate middle-aged man panting on the edge of the dance floor.
"The court finds that they were, in fact, acting for a benevolent purpose in light of the brutal attack and that they reasonably believed that a further delay could have resulted in the unnecessary loss of life". That finding is critical if defense lawyers challenge the judge's ruling or if they attempt to have the search warrant invalidated, according to legal experts.
