In 1877 Tchaikovsky acquired a financial backer, the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck, who sent him a monthly stipend in return for his steady correspondence with her about his music.
In the sciences, many Ph.D. programs offer a tuition waiver and a stipend in return for committing to an intensive schedule working in a laboratory and passing up other employment.
He is the city's second poet laureate, a job that offers a tiny stipend in return for roughly 20 public events and a handful of other duties each year.
If they have children and live on less than 140 reais a month per person, they can apply for the Bolsa Família, a discretionary, and much less generous, monthly stipend paid in return for sending children to school and keeping up with basical medical requirements, such as getting them vaccinated.
He was later awarded a stipend by Germany in return for his silence on the matter.
Fifty students would receive full tuition at the college or graduate or graduate school level and a stipend for living expenses in return for working for at least three years after graduation in designated federal positions.
In addition to her fees, she receives a small monthly stipend from the government; in return, she commits to providing on-call services and helping with other health initiatives aimed at children, such as immunization campaigns.
Known then as the Jewish Central Information Office, the library essentially functioned as a private intelligence service, with Mr. Wiener paid a regular stipend by British government departments in return for keeping them informed about developments in Germany.
The real breakthrough in his career as a writer came in 1970, when John Martin agreed to pay him a monthly stipend of a hundred dollars in return for the right to publish his work through Black Sparrow Press.
The way it worked at the time, you made a commitment in your third year; at that point, you would receive a stipend and join the army in return.
