Beneficent

Iran diplomacy had broken up and Obama in Oslo reclaimed for America the title of beneficent world garrison state. ❋ David Bromwich (2012)

Ancient Mariner assured him in beneficent cackles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the other hand, maybe we think that governments do behave, at least some of the time, in beneficent fashion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still in beneficent mood, the guards allowed the prisoners to play musical instruments for two hours each evening and permitted a concert on Easter Sunday. ❋ Unknown (1983)

Cholera has been rightly called the beneficent sanitary inspector of the world. ❋ Ellice Hopkins (N/A)

This has been boldly called a beneficent arrangement, in order that the young cuckoo may get sufficient food, and that its foster-brothers may perish before they had acquired much feeling! ❋ Unknown (1909)

Not that he had any faith in the so-called beneficent influences of time -- for what young lover is willing to believe that the slow drag of months and years over his passion will crush all life from it at last? ❋ A. Ethelwyn Wetherald (1898)

When we have completed the conquest of the earth, when we have discovered God's laws of matter and force and are able to keep them, it means the abolition of all unnecessary pain, unnecessary pain, I say; for all that pain which is not beneficent, which is not inherent in the nature of things, is remedial. ❋ Unknown (1879)

"There is magic of two kinds, -- the dark and evil, appertaining to witchcraft or necromancy; the pure and beneficent, which is but philosophy, applied to certain mysteries in Nature remote from the beaten tracks of science, but which deepened the wisdom of ancient sages, and can yet unriddle the myths of departed races." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The CEO of a company is a kind of beneficent dictator. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some of the more naive imagine that it can be persuaded, by means of Political Correctness, to undergo some kind of beneficent metamorphosis and become a harmless mouse. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But what you propose would have them forever trapped in having to buy seeds again and again, disconnected from the safety and generosity of nature, and instead allowing these "beneficent" corporations to own growth itself and impoverish unto death the farmers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mehemet Ali, reminding him that the natives of Egypt were not his chattels and were free to settle wherever they chose under the Sultan's "beneficent" rule. ❋ Unknown (1920)

"I am old and ugly and childless: and therefore, to be trusted by my dead lord's son, the beneficent prince, upon whose head be blessings," -- clasping her withered hands, and turning toward that part of the palace where, no doubt, he was enjoying a "beneficent" nap. ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)

How many Americans even know the history of our years of "beneficent" military interventions into Haiti or sweat shop "development" projects since? ❋ Unknown (2010)

That pursuit, which in another might perhaps be justly called beneficent, is, in me, a dear and cherished duty; though why a commission should be demanded or needed is, I confess, no less a subject of surprise. " ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

You Will [benefice] in time. [Benefice] not by your own understanding. [Allow] [the present], for the benefice of tomorrow shall show true. ❋ Godware (2012)