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词汇 example_english_act-of-charity
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act of charity

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meanings of actand charity


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act
noun
uk /ækt/ us /ækt/
something that ...
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charity
noun
uk /ˈtʃær.ə.ti/ us /ˈtʃer.ə.t̬i/
an organization whose purpose is to give money, food, or help to those who need it, or to carry out activities such as medical research that will help people in need, and not to make ...
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Examples of act of charity


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In so arguing, he reasserted the tradition of the possible correction of superiors by virtue of a non-coercive actofcharity.
Clearly, the actofcharity of a poor man and a rich man must differ; $100 from each does not represent the same altruistic act.
The message that receiving social security is a right and not an actofcharity has been put across successfully.
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Such people do not seek an actofcharity; they seek the community rights of the society that we used to enjoy.
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No great terror would be introduced into the legislative heart by a small actofcharity of that kind.
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Below cost sales is not an actofcharity, but the taking over of a market share, which will have to be compensated elsewhere.
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Send him as a refugee or exile or alien to some other country that might be induced to receive him as an actofcharity?
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The author of the amendment clearly believe that taxpayers' money should be spent as an actofcharity towards the platform construction firms.
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We are not doing it in any sense as an actofcharity.
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But to pretend that this is an actofcharity, or that in the long run it will do good.
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I do not regard it as a great actofcharity to divide two years' price increases by two to get the annual figure.
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I want these loans to be considered by the general public not as an actofcharity but as a sound economic investment in the interests of the community.
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One should not assume that, when organisations take measures to assist the disabled, they do so as an actofcharity; it is often in their own enlightened self-interest.
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She had continued to charge that rent because her friend was very poor, and had done so as an actofcharity to an old friend.
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I ask you, as an actofcharity, to put my case before the proper authority, or to render me any assistance that lies in your power.
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If we can do something this morning to meet the case of one of these little groups, we shall have done not some actofcharity but our duty.
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One was the angle that nothing but an actofcharity was called for, and the other was that an act of right ought to be done.
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But it is not involved in road or rail building or anything else as an actofcharity, despite being presented to us sometimes under that guise.
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