Still, the sudden fashion for beneficence has the smell of a trend about it.

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The First Minister deliberately set out to exclude a sector of society from his beneficence.

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Amid the international outpouring for the quake's victims has been a wave of beneficence within China itself.

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In the event you find yourself in the presence of the recipient, adopt an air of gloating beneficence.

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The parents, therefore, must set a point in time when their beneficence ends.

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What he suggests, instead, is that beneficence tends to return to those who do good deeds a kind of karmic recompense.

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Lib Dem faith in the beneficence of public-sector producers knows no bounds.

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They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.

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Great as his beneficence was, it could be self-serving.

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Armstrong got rich thanks to the beneficence of people who didn't just back him but lauded, even lionized him as the greatest cyclist ever, and perhaps pound-for-pound one of the world's finest sportsmen.

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To gain a deeper understanding of the CSR movement, it is critical to set aside our one-dimensional view of corporate beneficence to tease out a more sophisticated understanding of the complex relationship between corporations and their activities and the greater community.

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