Sentence examples for special endowment from inspiring English sources

(See a Berkeley News story about the program). The books are purchased with a special endowment — not student fees.

Infants do not enter the world with a special endowment of virtue, but neither do they carry the innate stain of vice.

Marc A. Dorfman, a member of the City Opera development office, pointed out in a company memorandum that the City Opera received a special endowment grant for the production.

Beyond McCain-Feingold, he said he would push for public financing through tax-deductible contributions to a special endowment and, if that proved insufficient, would have broadcasters provide free air time as a condition for keeping their licenses.

In addition, a special endowment of $50 million has been offered by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development to assist developing countries with renewable energy projects and scholarships through 2016.

This is the key: a sense of the quality of any work, of fineness of observation, of skill in production, of wit, insight, and psychological acuity, of inventiveness and discernment, is not the special endowment of any class, or ethnicity, or of either gender.

In these times of decreasing financial support from the state, it is the income from these special endowments and your gifts of time and money that make it possible to enrich UCMP's programs in teaching, research, and outreach.

If self-sufficiency is assumed, there is no point in imitating others, including those blessed with a special qi endowment; to do so, indeed, as Guo Xiang puts it, would be like a fish's aspiring to become a bird (commentary to Zhuangzi 2).

But though driven to overuse her special physical endowments at a time when soma splurges were a market correction to the soul, as she puts it, she mostly skinny-dipped through the hedonist lifestyle, did what helped her develop better ways of relating to people and building an alternative community.

In the Roman Catholic Church it has been maintained that a special charismatic sacramental endowment conveying an indelible "character" has been conferred on those who receive valid ordination by the laying on of hands on their heads by bishops (who thus transfer to them the "power of orders"), prayer, and a right intention.

For example, Washington, D.C.'s WETA, which produces "NewsHour" and the popular Ken Burns specials, has an endowment of $8.6 million, said Mary Stewart, the station's vice president of external affairs.