Sentence examples for own endowment from inspiring English sources

Each college has its own endowment, managed in its own, idiosyncratic fashion, and the university has a separate one to pay for a variety of activities.

By controlling its own endowment, he said, Scenic Hudson could better pursue its causes, including pressing the General Electric Corporation to clean up PCB's in the Hudson.

"The American foundation will not have its own endowment, but the parent foundation has made a commitment to funding these programs," Mr. Papadimitriou said.

Under his tenure, it evolved into one of the two best economic institutions in Russia, with an international reputation — an independent organization that built its own endowment at a time when endowments, in post-Soviet Russia, were barely familiar.

Like graduate schools on campus, it operates largely independently from the university — with its own endowment and doing its own fund-raising — but still is part of the university.

Originally financed by Charles Steele, the school now has its own endowment, which is managed by the church and is in the millions, according to James Marlow, the church's director of administration.

But, as a proportion of the foundations' own endowments, they are relatively small – just a few percent for the fossil fuel investments we know about.

The attention devoted to the wealth of universities, hospitals and museums has created envy among less rich nonprofits, many of which are establishing their own endowments.

If Bill Clinton was seduced by a flash of Monica Lewinsky's thong, Weiner seems to have been led into temptation primarily by the desire to boast about his own endowments.

These two, though, bottled it: "Woody and I took a look at the rather challengingly splendid specimens on the table before us, considered for a moment the slightly more modest scale of our own endowments, and said, 'Hmmm.

And of course, we hope that it will add further encouragement to the the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust to take the step of moving their own endowments away from companies that are using shareholder cash to fund the hunt for yet more fossil fuels we cannot safely burn.