That truly would be a promise to the ear to be broken to the hope, like the munificent bequest, Justice Jackson said, that is the pauper's will.
But it would be the next partnership, Chewco, also started in 1997, that would pay Mr. Kopper and Mr. Dodson an even more munificent return.
With time, Khodorkovsky would be known for his clash with Putin, the ten years he served in a Russian prison, and his political activism from his new home in London — but, back in the mid- and late nineties, he was a calculating and not particularly munificent member of the post-Soviet oligarchy.
How much better served we would be, how much more assured we would feel, if we knew our national resources remained in the public domain and were under the stewardship of a National Oil Trust and developed for the nation as a whole and not the crony racket that our government has permitted to run amok with its pittance royalties, munificent tax breaks, loopy depreciation allowances and on.
His tone was munificent, as if congratulating me for having the name I did.
At fund-raisers for Irish causes, Mr. Delaney was munificent but demure, Mr. Staunton said.
That the moneyed are munificent is welcome, but that the best brains in business take the giving seriously matters, too.
That is munificent by international standards Britain ranks third in global defence spending, behind America and China.
The bindweed is being trained up sticks, and when it is munificent I shall choke it off under plastic bags.
Taken by Christian forces in 1085, the city from the 15th to the 17th century was the seat of the Mendoza family, duques del Infantado, who were munificent patrons of Spanish artists and writers.
