Sentence examples for major endowment of from inspiring English sources

He also had steady nerves, and a major endowment of youthful blitheness.

These days, so it seems, they are working on building a great university at Oklahoma -- including acquiring a recent major endowment of impressionist masters from the estate of Clara Weitzenhoffer.

The school was founded in 1749, and in 1796 George Washington provided the school's first major endowment of $20,000 worth of stock in James River Canal and Potomac Canal.

According to the terms, $7.5 million will be spread out over the next five years to help pay for immediate needs, and $5 million more is contingent on the orchestra's raising five times that amount, as part of a major endowment campaign.

During his tenure at Lincoln Center he headed two major endowment drives that raised over $28 million.

Practically every major endowment fund imitated their construct these past few years.

His major gifts include endowments of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, which is dedicated to the study of business in developing countries.

In total, $19.4 million was awarded to 819 organizations nationwide in this first major round of endowment grants for the fiscal year beginning next October.

MIAMI — Lawton Chiles spent his last years as governor battling Big Tobacco, pushing one of the first major cases against cigarette companies, which resulted in an endowment of almost $2 billion and a "truth campaign" against smoking that became a national model.

The Gallery's purchase grant from the government was frozen in 1985, but later that year it received an endowment of £50 million from Sir Paul Getty, enabling many major purchases to be made.

According to Flint, the $150 million in capital commitments that NFX has locked down come from major foundations, endowments, funds of funds, as well as 50 founders and investors who work at venture firms.