Sentence examples for endowments set from inspiring English sources

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

Investors such as pension funds and endowments set aside a certain percentage of their money for alternative investments, which include venture capital.

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.

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

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.

One might have thought that such institutional investors would be the ultimate "strong hands," because their endowments were set up to support them in perpetuity.

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

The Cronkite School, named for the CBS anchor, in whose honor an endowment was set up 25 years ago, underwent a comprehensive curriculum revision in 2007, and appears to be predicated on the notion that tomorrow's journalists will have more career options but in a much more complicated environment.

This natural endowment would set the stage for investigation of prospects of the mountain people for distinctive performance in endurance-related elite sports activities.

Although nephron endowment is set early, mammalian kidneys grow remarkably in size and functionality during juvenile stages: as body mass increases, overall kidney size and blood filtration rates increase (Figure 3A) [28].