Sentence examples for benevolent societies from inspiring English sources

October 29 , 1854 Discussion of various plans for donations to various benevolent societies.

There were mom-and-pop grocery stores, benevolent societies, dim sum places, gambling parlours – even the alleyways had restaurants.

Without much in the way of schools, hospitals, or transportation, the people of the Ninth Ward depended on each other, organizing mutual-aid and benevolent societies to care for the sick and the indigent.

"The Roman Church crumbles away... in our country and can only save its adherents by quarantining its children in parochial schools and its men and women in separate social and benevolent societies".

It's that the very women who are working the longest hours -- educated professional women -- are the same group who in the past founded the benevolent societies and filled the ranks of the social movements that virtually defined America's civil society.

The Second Line helps celebrate any local event, but mostly they follow brass bands and the Main Line, the flamboyantly besuited members of benevolent societies such as the Money Wasters, Prince of Wales and the Sidewalk Steppers.

He established a benevolent society that operated schools for poor children.

The role of religion is to make of us better human beings so that we might fashion a better and more benevolent society and world.

Telephone calls often go unan swered at the union's Barnsley headquarters and NUM officials concede it largely functions as a benevolent society, processing ill-health claims.

He also served as president of Reencontro (Portuguese: "Reunion"), an evangelical benevolent society that distributed Bibles worldwide and operated 19 free clinics, an orphanage, a vocational training program, a food-distribution centre, and child-care agencies.

Mrs. Astor's image as a benevolent society matron was overshadowed last year by that of a victimized dowager at the center of a very public family battle over her care and fortune.