When donations are made, by the legislature or others, to a charity already existing, without any condition, or the specification of any new use, the donation follows the nature of the charity.
Is Vermont to be considered as having intended a gift to the State of New Hampshire in this case, as, it has been said, is to be the reasonable construction of all donations to the college?
You shall wholly exclude donations that shall not be voluntary, and shall not allow them to be bargained for at any time.
When the corpse is consigned to the earth, the clerk receives the donations of the people that are around the grave, upon the spade with which he is throwing the earth upon the coffin; and this is his share of the fees.
All donations for the support of public schools, or for other purposes of education, which may be received by the General Assembly, shall be applied according to the terms prescribed by the donors.
It was built in the year 1856, with funds furnished partly by the incumbent and partly by donations from the immediate neighbourhood.
The time is now arrived when they must cease to be wholly dependent on the private donations of three individuals, and must be placed on the strength of public contributions.
But, hedged about with consents and reservations, donations took place.
M536) Here these donations split up into separate classes.
We have already noticed some cases of suchdonations by the kings.
Donations And Bequests (M530) Alienation of property might be complete or partial.
The expenses of the Mission were then, as now, paid from the profits of this work, and the donations of persons interested in the scheme.
Donations come to it from all parts of the country, for the Mission is widely known, and thousands of Christian people give it their assistance.
Sometimes they are in accord with the clergy; sometimes in opposition; and at one moment make large donations to the Church, at another rob it.
Such were the means by which the courtly bishop extracted donations from the great, and such the spiritual consolation with which he rewarded the generosity of his royal patrons.
He even went so far as to prohibit the Holy See from receiving donations of any kind, when given without the consent or to the prejudice of those who had just and equitable claims to them.
To God and holy Church and to all earls and barons and all his men, the king grants, and restores and confirms all concessions and donations and liberties and free customs which King Henry his grandfather had given and granted to them.
The successors of Charlemagne chiefly signalized their authority by lavishing donations of all kinds on the church.
Not wishing to solicit donations from those on whose attendance they counted, it was difficult to plan features that would yield the largest profit for the smallest outlay of money.
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious did still more in this direction, so that partly by these means, partly by the continued donations of rich people, church property soon acquired its earlier proportions.
The main sources of their growing wealth were donations and legacies.
Its first part describes the donations of the emperor, the second the obligations of the pope in accordance with the Constitutio Romana, ยง 82, 4.
If these funds were chiefly derived from the small donations of the many, there would be something in this argument.
Ambassador Smith estimates that the American donations supported more than seven hundred thousand people for a month.
Donations for Relief of Orphan Children" represents sums of money given to the Armenian and German hospitals for Armenian refugee children.
Generous donations of clothing, jellies, cordials and money were also received from various auxiliaries of the ladies' of the Union Veteran Legion.
Blaine, and the Russian Charge d'Affairs at Washington, Mr. Alexander Gregor, and had ascertained that Russia would gladly receive any donations of relief that the people of America might send to her famine stricken people.
Working headquarters were established, requests for donations were published which met with immediate response, which testified to the generosity of the citizens of St. Paul and surrounding towns.
Many donations of food and material were received, and as stated, nearly forty thousand men were fed, and how some of them did eat not only as if they were making up for the fasts of the past, but for any which might occur in the future.
Among the principal donations were those from the Lutheran Church Society, Hagerstown, Md.
Even the bedding and clothes of those led out to execution at the autos de fe were seized, as appears from occasional donations of them to officials.
Doubtless there were other donations of greater or less amount, but these are the only appropriations for the permanent support of the tribunals of Castile that I have met with.
For the majority of donations a printed post-card of acknowledgment is commonly used, and specially valuable gifts are acknowledged by special resolutions conveyed in a handsome form.
Many libraries now store and circulate books for the blind in the Braille and Moon types, and in this work some of them have been aided by the expert advice and actual donations of special societies interested in the well-being of the blind.
When books are added to the library as donations it is well to carry into this record the accession numbers given to them in the columns provided.
Although every library benefits now and then from the generosity of donors of books and money, donations cannot be regarded as a reliable source of a constant and liberal supply of good and suitable books.
Some libraries adopt the rule of refusing all donations of periodicals in order to prevent the difficulties that arise.
As the English Registrar accepts donations in kind as annual voluntary contributions, it is only necessary to value these to make up a respectable sum.
And in my Journey to Portsmouth last June, I received in private Donations 66l.
People were invited to send their donations irrespective of their number or their kind.
It is doubtful to me whether it would not better conserve the self-respect of the soldier and be more dignified if these donations were to cease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "donations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
