benefactors

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Benefactors as distinct as Mayor Bill de Blasio, a professed progressive, and Michael R. Bloomberg, his billionaire technocrat predecessor, have allowed themselves to see validation in his success.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2021

Playwright Michael Frayn picked up a special lifetime achievement award "Producers on the whole expect writers to cut their teeth in the subsidised theatre," said the playwright, whose works include Noises Off and Benefactors.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2013

When the Crucible staged Benefactors and Copenhagen together, you began to understand how all of Frayn's characters wrestle with the problem of seeking to impose structure on an intractable universe.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012

Benefactors view Booker as somebody they can work with after decades of corruption, says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2012

Nor are naturalised Benefactors of the Species forgotten: Priestley, elected by the Orne Department, but declining: Paine the rebellious Needleman, by the Pas de Calais, who accepts.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas