The word "endowing" is a correct and usable word in written English.
To use it, it means to provide someone with a gift, usually money, to support them or an organization, or to give something to a certain person or organization. Example: The company endowed a generous amount of money to the local charity.
Last February, it revamped the Historic Centre Trust, a quango, endowing it with a grant of 500m pesos ($55m).In this section The geopolitics of orange juice A new prescription Hard luck story Centre of belated attention ReprintsThe trust has begun work on renovating the 34 blocks in the heart of the historic centre, behind the cathedral.
To cap it all, conservative ideas of deregulation and unfettered free-market capitalism have been brought into disrepute by the financial turmoil south of the border.So perhaps it is not surprising that the hopes of Stephen Harper, Canada's Conservative prime minister, of endowing his minority government with a parliamentary majority at a general election on October 14th may end up being dashed.
To his credit, he set to work quickly on the spending schemes, declaring a limited moratorium on farmers' debts, endowing each of Thailand's 70,000 villages with a 1m baht ($22,600) investment fund and introducing universal medical care for just 30 baht per consultation.
Mr Close reckons that consciousness may be a collective effect, too.He outlines how the Higgs field, which is thought to be responsible for endowing matter with mass and thus enabling gravity to act on it, may also be a collective property.
There was plenty of money left for the good life, however many millions he spent on good works—endowing many other palaces of culture, and, when he became a keen environmentalist, saving a threatened shoreline in Georgia.
Endowing the crus bourgeois with a new sense of prestige could prove an astute marketing ploy.
Little wonder, then, that boffins are cagey about declaring forthrightly that the most sought-after particle in physics, the Higgs boson believed to be implicated in endowing other subatomic species with mass, has been nabbed.
They are endowing new museums, art galleries, universities and schools in an utterly admirable show of philanthropy.
And he makes a cheeky symbolic point in Carla's appearance, endowing her with "an abundant curve of buttocks" for which she's known as "a blonde with a black ass".Unfortunately, neither talent nor derrière protect her from "the dank rhetoric of racial talk" from black and from white.
But every other year the press pack remembers that, for some odd reason, such people have been given the vote and sets about endowing them with awesome political power.The press Lexington included swallowed Karl Rove's argument that the Republicans were robbed of a conclusive victory in 2000 because 4m evangelicals were not urged to the polls.
Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's finance minister, once suggested endowing the economics commissioner, who oversees the euro zone's fiscal rules, with powers comparable to those of Ms Vestager.
