Many shipping companies felt they were benevolent, however, offering certainty on rates to and from European ports and accepting obligations to cover berths.
Mead presents these empires as essentially benevolent confections, offering a model of rule so seductive that "people choose freely to belong" to them.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" was based around a fundamental Othering of Africa in general, and Ethiopia in particular, casting Western musicians as benevolent angels offering salvation to the wretched of the earth.
Over the next 12 years, Mo becomes recognized as benevolent and peaceful, offering material incentives to converts.
The Tai followed local religions that involved propitiation of both malevolent and benevolent spirits through offerings and special ceremonies.
For now, anyway, he's less concerned with figures as he is with offering "good, benevolent messages" and "allowing people to open up to themselves and the people in their lives," pointing to the many YouTube covers of his material that have already emerged.
"A benevolent malefactor, a compassionate convict, offering forgiveness in return for hate, favoring pity over revenge, preferring to himself be destroyed to destroying his enemy, saving the one who had brought him down, this loathsome angel, this vile hero, who outraged him almost as much as he amazed him".
4. Benevolent dictators are benevolent.
Many people believe that if there were alternatives, shelters would not kill because they are staffed with benevolent animal lovers, laboring against overwhelming odds and offering a humane death only when necessary.
Their religion centres around two benevolent male deities and an evil female deity; offerings are made only to the evil goddess, in order to avoid ill fortune.
