Sentence examples for gratuitous gift from inspiring English sources
A panic-buying rise in fuel prices was also condemned as a gratuitous gift to racketeering middle men.
Putting Nancarrow in human hands, with or without his consent, may have been one big mistake; the gratuitous gift of instrumental color to his music was probably another.
When the Israelite loses family property, he must live alongside members of his family as if he were a resident alien (25.35); but the reader is reminded that in relation to God, the entire community, settled by God of his own gratuitous gift in the land of Canaan, has the same status of resident aliens.
Some regard charity as a condescending attitude; others expose the underlying expectation of return involved in any system of gifts (Mauss 1954) or even the logical impossibility of a real, free and gratuitous gift relationship, since every giving involves an expectation of return — of both gratitude and a future gift (Derrida 1992).
Another gratuitous gift called Bonus Depreciation--originally intended as a recession fighter, and not even good at that--will go on for another six years, losing $28 billion in corporate tax revenue.
Members of the Indian community would be well aware of wedding gift-giving customs, so mentioning on the invitation that the couple would prefer the most traditional type of gift seems gratuitous.
First, many tax codes do not consider as taxable income those changes in net worth resulting from gifts, bequests, and other gratuitous transfers.
Gift tax, a levy imposed on gratuitous transfers of property i.e., those made without compensation.
Some thinkers have argued that forgiveness is a duty (Rashdall, 1924) while others have maintained that, like a gift with no strings attached, forgiveness is utterly gratuitous (Heyd, 1982).
The French renegade philosopher Georges Bataille made much of the potlatch, as a model for economics based on gift-giving rather than on exchange; and Hirschhorn follows suit, in the coin of gratuitous service and toil.
