Sentence examples for in bequest from inspiring English sources

The word pivotal has appeared in 2,490 New York Times articles in the past year, including on April 14 in "Bequest to the Boy Next Door," by Jim Koscs: The 1966 Cadillacs continued a creased design introduced the year before.

"It was the first decline in bequests since 1998," said Jeff Krehely, deputy director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

This gift followed major contributions to the center by other top Dell executives, totaling $15 million in bequests.

"I've seen people try to leave 50 percent in bequests and that's a problem," said Keith Brandt, an adviser with Washington Wealth Management.

Ms. Kaufman's will ordered that the apartment be sold to pay estate taxes as well as $230,000 in bequests to four relatives and three longtime employees.

It stipulates that her co-op apartment, a few blocks from the restaurant, is to be sold to pay estate taxes and $230,000 in bequests.

Mr. Buffett and the younger Mr. Gates have both said they will give away most of their fortunes in bequests at death.

The two men have made headlines worldwide for enlisting Western tycoons in a public promise to give away their fortunes either during their lifetimes or in bequests after their deaths.

In another paragraph on the second page, Ms. Kaufman left instructions to sell her two-bedroom apartment on East 86th Street to pay estate taxes and cover $230,000 in bequests to four nephews and three employees.

Paul G. Schervish, director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College, said the decline in bequests was accompanied by a sharp rise in lifetime giving to foundations by wealthy Americans that began in 1995.

After Congress began a temporary and gradual rollback of the tax early in President Bush's first term, there was a $2.8 billion decline in bequests to philanthropies from 2002 to 2003.