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charity

A charity is an organisation that collects money or goods and uses them to help poor or sick people, often with the help of volunteers. The group, a Catholic charity that runs schools on Indian reservations, collected nearly $17 million from the public. The party was a charity event that raised over $400,000 to fight breast cancer. The money was given away to local charities. Charity is the work of helping the poor and the sick. All the money raised goes to charity. Charity is the money, goods, or help that people give to the poor and the sick. Our family was poor, but my mother would never accept charity. Charity is the quality of being kind, thoughtful, and helpful. He led a life of charity.

charity

a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) a kindly and lenient attitude toward people an activity or gift that benefits the public at large an institution set up to provide help to the needy (= Jacob''s ladder) pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers

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Simple sentences

Charity begins at home.
She became Mother Teresa years later when she founded the Missionaries of Charity.
He would not give away his money for charity's sake.
They are living on charity.
I don't need your charity.
Do you give to charity?
Tom contributed a lot of money to charity.
Tom twisted Mary's arm and she agreed to donate some money to our charity.
Tom contacted me the other day asking me if I'd play guitar for a charity concert.
He's active doing charity work.
When was the last time you gave charity?
I don't want charity.
Private charity is only a drop in the bucket.
He contributed a lot of money to the charity.
He gave away all his money to charity.
She refused to accept charity.
He balked at the suggestion that he give ten percent of his income to charity.
Tom doesn't like being asked to give to charity.

Movie subtitles

I won't take your charity!
I met him once at a charity do with a stepdaughter, Hannah.
She's still unravelling old sweaters from the charity box to knit up mittens for the poor.
What about charity and mercy?
Next week we are having a charity concert for students.
You are asked to play in a charity concert.
Do you remember about the charity concert?
Ysabel and her mother. countess Prosca, host a charity bazaar.
Charity - to some a duty, to others a joy.
Oh, but listen to this. there great Christian charity.
You can't neglect her for a lot of charity cases.
Jekyll gives entirely too much time to his charity patients.
I don't want charity.
I don't have to take a box for that charity thing Saturday night now. you know, for backward orphans or something.
I represent progress, a sort of charity.
I would have you, if you will, assume with me into to The greatest eternally lovely qualities of charity.
In the difficulties of your daily life, Find that the qualities of charity Aren't always so easy, so ready to observe.
Then you will come to my charity bazaar.
We didn't need any charity from her.
She did a lot for charity. Bad luck, it's not a very common disease in high society. Eh, Boeldieu?
My friend gave all of his away to charity anonymously.
But don't forget that charity starts with friends.
The greatest of these is charity.
You don't have to take nobody's charity like I gotta take yours.
A fine reward for charity.
If charity be false as that coin.
We will take no charity.
Not charity, man.
Lieutenant, we don't need your charity.
Jim thinks banks are charity institutes.
Well, we don't want none of her blasted charity around here.
Because it is not in my nature, sir. To accept charity.
Charity is the furthest thing from my mind.
In 1924 one Emile Winkleman was employed at the charity hospital at Marseilles.
The same Emile Winkleman, beard and all, vanishes from the charity hospital. And with him, a magnificent sum of money belonging to the state.
Let's have a little Christian charity one for the other.
It's obvious you want to be kind, but why do you choose me for your charity?

News and current affairs

Help for poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to adapt to climate change should not be described as charity or aid, but rather as compensation for damages being imposed on the poorest people on the planet.
The polling organization Gallup asked people in 135 countries whether they had, in the last month, donated money to a charity, volunteered their time to an organization, or helped a stranger.
Then there are those who donate to charity.
By contrast, other donors give larger sums, usually to only a handful of charities chosen on the basis of some knowledge about what the charity is doing.
Charity begins at home.
It is often claimed in the Islamic world that, because one of the five fundamental duties of a Muslim is Zakat (charity to the poor), Islamic society is less atomistic, which limits inequality and social exclusion.
Those who make it known that they give to charity increase the likelihood that others will do the same.
Charity inspires, reassuring us of our humanity, but it is often capricious.
Charity responds to attention-grabbing events, often neglecting less sensational disasters.
Indeed, if he were to build any kind of organization to support his charity, he would be violating the law.
But, in reading these works, I do not find a clear or persuasive statement of any economic doctrine, except for basic notions of fairness and Christian charity.
Japan needed real financial risk sharing: charity rarely amounts to much.
Global income redistribution by the rich countries should be viewed as a matter not of charity, but of enlightened self-interest.
You want to donate money to a charity that is working to reduce the toll.
One of the most significant factors determining whether people give to charity is their beliefs about what others are doing.
The world's one billion hungry people do not deserve charity: they have a human right to adequate food, and governments have corresponding duties, which are enshrined in international human rights law.
This removes the stigma of charity, and it is empowering for victims.
Worse still, that figure, even if accurate, tells you nothing about the charity's impact.
In 2006, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld faced the question of which charity would make the best use of their money.
The sales clerk's commercially motivated solicitude does lack true charity and altruism.
My colleagues and I suggest a system in which compensation is provided by a third party (government, a charity, or insurance) with public oversight.
This economic totalitarianism has been legitimated by government charity.

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