So let us be more generous to the Pakistani authorities.
What, after all, is achieved by those lists of authorities, so generous with their time and wisdom, except to attest to the diligence of the author?
The private sector -- even with the generous support of monetary authorities -- will not supply it.
Even though the local authority was generous, the government's proposals have meant that Law For All has closed its doors.
But Mayor Michael Bloomberg, wrestling with his own budget shortfalls, has balked at such schemes: the authority's generous contributions to the Housing Trust Fund already help pay for low- and moderate-income housing in the city.
Mr. Green said he thought a tax increase would be unnecessary because "I am hopeful that Washington and the state, with generous gifts and bonding authority, will help us".
And like the great films of the 1930's and early 40's, it is at once artful and unpretentious, sophisticated and completely accessible, sure of its own authority and generous toward characters and audience alike -- a movie whose intended public is the human race.
Instead, Lagarde offered an extraordinarily generous view of the Chinese authorities' efforts to prop up local share prices on Wednesday.
Most of the 6,300 Jews in Dusseldorf, a western city, have arrived in the last decade, part of a large influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union lured by the generous welcome offered by German authorities determined to rebuild Jewish life in Germany.
