Sentence examples for endowments against from inspiring English sources
Yale law professor Henry Hansmann, an expert on the law and economics of nonprofit institutions, was recently quotd deriding the argument that universities need to maintain their endowments against hard times rather than fritter it away on educating students now.
An equally important measure is how the endowment did against its peers.
Conflict with the secular priesthood naturally resulted; the seculars attempted unsuccessfully to exclude the mendicants from the ministry of sacraments and inveighed against conventual endowments that seemed to contradict the friars' professions of poverty.
Owners of the assets tied up in Lehman's London unit, including pension funds and university endowments, believe they may have claims against Capco if all of their money is not returned by Lehman's liquidator.
With most stage personalities, we have to weigh achievement against endowment.
Even their own investors — pension funds, endowments and the über-rich — have turned against them, asking that they lower the fees they charge to manage money.
Private colleges and universities will fare better than the public ones, Dr. Ehrenberg predicted, because their endowments, some substantial, will provide a cushion against the downturn.
They figure they'll tap into what they perceive as a growing resentment against top-notch universities whose endowments have expanded enormously in recent years while tuitions have simultaneously skyrocketed.
Analysts and industry observers say that pension funds and endowments may be waiting to see how the trial against TCW is resolved before making any big investments.
Many hedge funds, private investment pools for the wealthy and for institutions like college endowments, also held up well because they had bet against the stock market as a defensive move all year.
Two dozen college presidents and policy experts defended the rising costs of tuition on Monday and argued against forcing colleges to spend more of their endowments.
