Sentence examples for prominent benefactor from inspiring English sources

Mr. Owens, who was first elected to Congress 18 years ago, was a prominent benefactor to Ms. Clarke when she switched from a career as a child care administrator to elective politics a decade ago.

These measures have been taken in full force -- yet the Saudi kingdom, a staunch Moroccan ally, remains a prominent benefactor to Moroccan mosques.

One of the Royal Opera House's most prominent benefactors has been arrested and charged with stealing $5m£2.7m7m) from a client.

Mortimer D. Sackler, a psychiatrist who was a co-owner of the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, makers of the controversial painkiller OxyContin, and whose lavish gifts to the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University made him one of New York City's most prominent benefactors, died March 24 in Gstaad, Switzerland.

Bruce is a large benefactor of The Washington Ballet.

They are mostly European and estimated to bring under $1,000 each, and they came from prominent early museum benefactors, including the poet Clara Jessup Moore.

Brunner was a prominent Freemason, and a generous benefactor to the towns in his constituency and to the University of Liverpool.

A professor was dismissed from Cornell, for example, for a pro-labor speech that annoyed a powerful benefactor, and a prominent scholar at Stanford was dismissed because he annoyed donors with his views on the silver and immigration issues.

When a prominent figure in the cultural world a benefactor or a distinguished critic or professor dies, the friends and family often establish a memorial prize in his or her name.

When a prominent figure in the cultural world — a benefactor or a distinguished critic or professor — dies, the friends and family often establish a memorial prize in his or her name.

Mr. Brennan, 58, who graduated from Seton Hall in 1965, is one of the university's most prominent alumni and was one of its biggest benefactors.