Sentence examples for munificent donor from inspiring English sources

Many mourn the loss of a meticulous scholar, a revered colleague, a devoted mentor, and a munificent donor.

The munificent donor to many good causes was ready to foreclose on a loan to his son.

He and others like him hope that the cancer-genome consortium will throw up dozens of similar genes, and that they, too, will prove tractable targets for drug development.Of course, if Dr DePinho had a penny for every time a "cure for cancer" headline proved premature, he wouldn't need munificent donors.

Mr Miller's unsuccessful Senate campaign in 2010 tested the limits of Alaska's appetite for small-government populism, a cause that was not helped when his security team inadvertently handcuffed a reporter.Fearing a repeat this year, the Republican National Committee and some munificent donors got behind Mr Sullivan instead.

Likewise, and of possibly greater significance, the generosity of male donors was easily and quickly matched by a series of munificent gifts by women.

Around town, Gilbert is a munificent, chatty presence.

This was quite a munificent gesture by the Pauls.

Somehow, the industry hadn't nurtured a broadly munificent culture.

Mr. Raines lost his job but gained a munificent pension.

Only my grandmother appears sanguine and munificent in her recliner.

She extended munificent hospitality to family and friends.