you're charitable

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

They balanced the budget (if you're charitable and not very good at arithmetic).

And taking part in the ice bucket challenge doesn't mean you're charitable.

You can expect quite a few dead-end launches, but you can also expect (if you're charitable) that companies like HTC and Sony just might learn something from them and reuse those ideas when the time is right.

Since you're charitable deduction for gifts of appreciated property is limited to 30% of your adjusted gross income (AGI), you should have sold coins resulting in at least $3,333,333 of gain in order to use the full deduction amount this year.

If you're charitable, vote for "sick".

A bore, then, but your friends surely want to hear all about it, and you are charitable enough to pretend you were at the Baftas on Sunday night.

You are compassionate, you are charitable, you are my heroes!" Not surprisingly, the news of Patton's new position was roundly criticized and, by the end of last week, a HUD spokesperson was insisting that "there has been no official appointment"—a sign, perhaps, that Ben Carson, Trump's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was not going to give Patton the job after all.

To wax philosophical for a second, it's pretty hard to do anything for 100percentt altruistic reasons: would you be charitable if it didn't make you feel good?

I thought that if it wasn't a complete nuisance to you you might be charitable enough to send me (immediately, alas!) a postal check for 20 francs.

If you were being charitable you could say the two videos were connected – the first one being the big night out and the second one being the post-club daze where you scramble around looking for come cereal before getting Uber delivery to bring you a pizza which you'll eat cold the next morning.

But it makes them seem grievously naïve (if you're being charitable) or simply dumb (if you're not).