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
Benefactors have put £40m of their own money into the regions, developing the players who have brought international success to Wales, and they have been making good losses.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2013
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
Scarcely less interesting historically, than the Lindisfarne Gospels is the Book of the Benefactors of Durham Cathedral.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
