Sentence examples for benevolent effort from inspiring English sources

"This is not some benevolent effort to give away computers.

"To Stem Juvenile Robberies, Police Trail Youths Before the Crime" (front page, March 4) suggests that the New York Police Department's Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program is a largely benevolent effort aimed at addressing the fractured relationships that exist between the police and teenagers, improving the lives of the young people involved and preventing gang violence.

By coincidence, the column appeared on Thursday, while the Japanese government was under attack by both China and South Korea for plans to approve new textbooks that describe the war not as a vicious imperial conquest, but instead, in a chilling revival of Japan's wartime propaganda, as a benevolent effort to create a "Greater East Asian War of the Co-Prosperity Sphere".

Her benevolent effort, while unorthodox, is just one example of how everyday heroes have stepped up to help those in need in the wake of Irma and Hurricane Harvey from Houston's "Mattress Mack" letting hundreds of people sleep in his furniture showroom to the monster-truck drivers navigating the city's floodwaters.

Despite the benevolent efforts of Fuller's influential Hollywood friends, Fuller lived out his later years in anger and frustration over his inability to realize his stories onscreen.

They saw it as being a dangerous, disease-ridden backwater inhabited mostly by non-Chinese who stubbornly refused the officials' benevolent efforts to "civilise" them.The Manchu conquest of China in the mid-17th century and the founding of the Qing dynasty marked the beginning of an especially turbulent era in Sino-Burmese relations.

Few public meetings in a benevolent cause are without him.

Fischer presided over the table without effort, a benevolent godfather.

Crime is not always driven by a benevolent motive, but perhaps more effort should be placed at addressing the problem from the deeper economical root, and not the easy fix of arresting young men who perform in the underground trains.

"Unfortunately, a small group of tenants did not appreciate Patti's efforts and rejected her benevolent offer.

Smith saw vigorous competition as the benevolent "invisible hand" that ensured individuals' efforts to pursue their own interests could benefit society more than if they were actually trying to achieve that end.