Sentence examples for endowment set up from inspiring English sources

Bishop Franz-Peter, for example, built his compound with money from an endowment set up by a duke of Nassau two centuries ago.

She's starting to think about college, and she has more than $60,000 waiting for her in an endowment set up on Mehta's blog.

They are part of an endowment set up in 2013 with five years of funding and a handful of spots reserved for UC Berkeley J-School graduates.

The Marconi Society was established in 1974 through an endowment set up by Gioia Marconi Braga, daughter of Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel laureate who invente radio (wireless telegraphy).

Eileen Kennedy, global executive director of ILSI, said that the funding of its regional groups came exclusively from industry, while the central body received money from the branches, from government and from an endowment set up by Dr Malaspina.

Mr. Whitney, who died a few months after Johnson, generously directed his estate to the Glass House Endowment set up earlier by Johnson to maintain the property and buildings.

Some botanical gardens are independently established and financially provided for through endowments set up by wealthy persons.

In late imperial China, bridges, ferries or schools — what a modern person might see as public or civic facilities — were often run with charitable land or cash endowments set up by local notables.

Although they might have some endowments set up by patrons, the bulk of the funds required for this undertaking would come from classmates.

The Ferens has an endowment fund set up by its founder TR Ferens in 1928 specifically to buy works of art.

To circumvent this complication, Roger Moore (then counsel to the University) proposed that a tax-exempt endowment be set up for the benefit of the President and Fellows of Harvard College that would disburse the funds.