Sentence examples for endowments given from inspiring English sources

International sport has become big business and totally corporatised, with high-back leather chairs accompanying it, not to mention the massive endowments given to those at the top.

Mr. Meyer began his effort to improve Harvard's investment process by focusing on how much it cost to invest in the most desirable assets, and whether that cost was excessive for endowments, given their nature.

Among many significant findings presented in a recent report from The Century Foundation Task Force on Community Colleges, there was one that truly surprised me: the difference between the average amount per full-time student of private gifts, investments and endowments given to private colleges ($46,432) and that which is given to community colleges ($372).

Second, an ethical dilemma exists in that it is not only different resource and service endowments across ecosystems that constrain or facilitate health, but also that not all people have equal access to such endowments, given the dynamics of power, marginalization, and social stratification in many societies.

Grant Oliphant, John Heinz's former press secretary, who is now the associate director of the Endowments, gave me a tour of Heinz Kerry's offices.

It may be remote, but with an $800 million endowment given by the Walton Family Foundation, Crystal Bridges promises to alter the landscape of art in America.

Some of the gift is for the center's endowment, given as part of Prudential Financial's 125th anniversary celebration, and some supports the center's Early Learning Through the Arts program and other purposes.

With the endowment given by R, the allocator's choice is restricted by ∑ i r i ≤ R. The potential recipients are characterized by two parameters, m i and p i. m i is the minimum ration an individual needs to obtain a positive payoff, while p i is a productivity factor, transforming the allocated ration into a payoff for the recipient.

Among the donations were $1 million each by the governments of British Columbia and Ontario, the former to create a new research institute to be founded in Fox's name, and the latter an endowment given to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation.

Having an endowment gives us another revenue stream to fall back on in hard times".

The endowment gives Colburn a rare edge in courting prospective students.