Sentence examples for charitable use from inspiring English sources

But it is increasingly common for charitable donations to take a significant detour before ever being put to charitable use.

For many, it was an easy way to flaunt success, ensure legacies and put their wealth to charitable use.

Berry recounts how Ratzinger lectured to a group of Legionary priests, and was subsequently handed an envelope of money "for his charitable use".

Congress long ago recognized that there is a difference between organizations that engage in charitable work and receive broad public support (public charities) and the private foundations that hold money for eventual charitable use.

"I get the sense that almost nothing is being done," said Andreas C. Dracopoulos, co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which was set up in the 1990s to put to charitable use the winnings of its shipping tycoon founder.

Property might be donated or willed normally, but not necessarily, to a church for some charitable use, and the church would then (or so it appears from the evidence) have the duty of supervising the fund.

Typically, the source of the irritation has something to do with tax, and the trouble goes back to 1601, when the government of Queen Elizabeth laid out the Charitable Uses Act.

In most countries the definition of charity is incredibly broad, a breadth that can be traced back to the Charitable Uses Act passed under the first Queen Elizabeth in 1601.

The modern law was contained in the Mortmain and Charitable Uses acts, 1888 and 1891, and in a number of acts that authorized limited companies and some other corporations to hold land without license in mortmain.

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