Word: sponsorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...establish on one of the more than 2000 islands off the coast of his native Maine a seenic scholarly retreat, with fine facilities for research and academic work in a number of fields. Professional and amateur scholars alike could come to pursue their interests there, with or without the sponsorship of the great universities...
...will not please those who--like the National Council of Churches and the American Jewish Congress--rightly believe that, religion does not need, and should not have, the sponsorship or support of the government." Voluntary and nonsectarian in name only, codes allowing group prayer inevitably supported entrenched religions at the expense of less widespread ones. And because of the peer pressure that's probably unavoidable in school settings, students who had no desire to pray often found themselves compelled to join in--effectively denying their right not to exercise their religious preferences...
...They stumble in looking like advancemen for a famine. But the Pru says it wants no part of commercialism, and the finish line next year will probably be elsewhere. "The marathon is going to be exactly the same as every other marathon in the world," Cloney promises, "with commercial sponsorship...
...spectacle of a three-ring movie studio on the verge of bankruptcy, only to be saved at the last minute by the world-renowned Paramount Pictures! And now, for their most stupendous caper, never before attempted on any stage . . . One From the Heart! It will be presented-without the sponsorship of Paramount-at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in the heart of glamorous Manhattan! So come! See a high-wire artiste, a pratfalling clown, a man who shoots himself from cannons, a spellbinding ringmaster. . . all wrapped up in the person of Mr. Zoetrope himself, Francis Coppola...
...Harry Truman, decided to midwife the birth of Israel out of the conviction that the Jewish people deserved a state of their own, especially after the horrors they suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The wisdom of the U.S.'s original sponsorship of Israel has been vindicated many times in many ways, by the sturdiness and vitality of Israeli democracy as well as by the richness of Israeli artistic and intellectual life. As a culture, a society and a polity-as a hospitable if sometimes overheated environment for the thriving of Western values-Israel has been a credit...