Sentence examples for bequests for from inspiring English sources

Historically, older households have often provided bequests for younger relatives.

I've seen RIM transform my home town over the years, giving it new parks, new buildings, huge bequests for the university, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Fairchild's bequest for the sermon was an expiation of his sense of guilt.

One was George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), who established a bequest for the design of a new English alphabet.

He left his papers to the Royal Society and a bequest for establishing a series of lectures in defense of Christianity.

The biggest contribution on record is a £2m bequest for debt repayment in 2000-01, when the economy was booming.

The most plausible assumption is that a bizarre incident in 1888 may have triggered the train of reflection that culminated in his bequest for the Nobel Prizes.

Leona Helmsley's multibillion-dollar bequest for the care and welfare of dogs may enable her estate to avoid paying as much as $3.6 billion in estate taxes.

The second, signed a month later, increased the bequest for her caregiver, gave money to a goddaughter and established a foundation at her mansion in Santa Barbara, Calif., for her art and doll collection.

In his will he left 67 Impressionist paintings to the French state, which mulled over the bequest for two years before accepting just 38, now the core of Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection.

Likewise, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston zoomed higher in the ranks — with nearly $400 million set aside — when the oil heiress Caroline Wiess Law died in 2003, leaving $192 million, out of her $480 million bequest, for art purchases.