They had, without question, the most sophisticated charitable institutions anywhere.
This gives rise to trends or, in a less charitable turn of phrase, herd mentality.
Forces now swirling in a confluence threaten to alter the charitable world as we know it.
Acting under the cloak of charity, he made a good income for himself from the gifts of charitable people.
This is a wish founded on the desirable simplicity of being charitable; one of her best characteristics.
Progressive evangelicals, such as Elizabeth Fry, a prison reformer, questioned their own charitable motives with painful introspection.
Disenchanted with the movement he founded, he marked its 50th anniversary with a call for an end to its charitable status.
Charity is a kind of salvation, and now it's even more to charity as the spirit of self-redemption, to participate in charitable initiative getting higher and higher.
The deduction is not a tax per se, but it's a charitable contribution that the company takes out of your paycheck.
When Hank Paulson, now America's treasury secretary, was boss of Goldman Sachs, he was persuaded to raise the amount that the firm chipped in to boost employees' charitable donations.
The city authorities in Rome have several times destroyed Gypsy encampments, but the Catholic Church now goes out of its way to help provide charitable aid for Gypsy families.
CNN broadcast a harrowing interview with one woman who has fallen into poverty. She lost her job, sold her television and furniture, even her wedding rings, and depends on charitable food handouts.
Having consolidated enormous power in his hands, Mr Putin can afford some charitable and nostalgic words about the 1990s, incorporating that era into the history of building Russian statehood.
