Sentence examples for charitable function from inspiring English sources

He was almost suggesting that he should be lauded for doing a good deed, attending Jerricho Cotchery's charitable function at the beginning of the night.

The charitable function of this bump is to break the front axle of your car, wrecking the machine so that it can't proceed onto the track in the path of the train.

As Redstone recounts in his new autobiography, "A Passion to Win" (Simon & Schuster; $26), he and Davis would meet at, say, a charitable function, and Davis would make it sound as if the deal were imminent.

The motion states that the exchange, as a "Type A" not-for-profit corporation, does not have a charitable function in that it serves the financial benefit of its members and that, as a "board of trade," it can make loans to its members.

They attend the same charitable functions, like the annual fund-raising dinner in New York City for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

This has led some scholars to suggest that many charitable functions would be better served by profit-making entities.

Each school had a two-story meeting hall used for gatherings of its members and for discharging its charitable functions.

But Ms. Biddle is one-half of the publicity firm Biddle & Bellidora Communications, which specializes in putting on and promoting some of New York City's most elite charitable functions.

He said that many of the league's 60 referees are involved in charitable functions and that the league is not against referees' auctioning off player memorabilia to support such work.

Mr. Assad is believed to report for work each morning to a private office in a wooded glen near his family's home in an upscale neighborhood of the capital, Damascus, and his wife, Asma, has busied herself with charitable functions and ceremonial public duties.

The Trump Foundation, on the other hand, serves as a pass-through for donations to other groups, which then perform charitable functions.