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Example sentences for "funds"

Lexicographically close words:
funded; fundholder; funding; funditus; fundo; fundus; fune; funebre; funera; funeral
  1. All branches closed in 1918 because of insufficient funds to carry on the work, which had grown to large proportions.

  2. There have been, during this year, six day schools for poor children entirely supported by the funds of our Institution, all of which have been established by us.

  3. The funds are now again completely exhausted.

  4. The review of the year ending May, 1857, presents us with the following results:-- There have been during this period four day schools entirely supported by the funds of this Institution.

  5. Lastly, one adult school, with 103 adult scholars, was entirely supported by the funds of the Institution.

  6. Besides this, six apprentices were still supported by the funds of the Institution, so that the total number was 127.

  7. During this year four day schools, with 202 children, were entirely supported by the funds of the Institution.

  8. Most men in making such an attempt would have spread the case before the public, employed agents to solicit in its behalf, and undertaken nothing until funds adequate to the success of the enterprise had been already secured.

  9. In answer to prayer, funds are received as they are needed, and the attempt succeeds beyond his expectation.

  10. Two Sunday schools were entirely supported by the funds of the Institution.

  11. As the public buildings are to be built with public funds for public uses which will not be a profitable undertaking, a special Government Department should therefore be created to take charge.

  12. But this could not be done without foreign help, owing to lack of funds and experts.

  13. I sold my animal, and although the funds I had brought with me were considerably reduced, my future gave me little concern, considering, especially, the abundance and cheapness of food.

  14. Pesth; but the funds for my journey to London were not so easily got, and I was obliged to leave my Tartar behind in the care of a friend and to proceed alone to England.

  15. In 1241 he formally declared the cause of the Church to be more important than that of Palestine, when, being in want of funds to carry on his contest with Frederic II.

  16. When funds are low, they can, and do, live cheaply; will work hard and do long journeys on the scantiest fare.

  17. Their honoured guests had accepted invitations to be present at a ball to be given that evening for the purpose of supplementing the funds of the local hospital, and all hoped to meet them there.

  18. The principal object of Monsieur Coquerel's visit to this country was to collect funds for the building of a church in Paris which should grandly and truly represent liberal Christianity.

  19. He saw in this event an opportunity of assisting his beloved Greece, and at once gathered together a committee for collecting funds in aid of this cause.

  20. Howe undertook to convey to some of the Polish chiefs funds sent for their aid by parties in the United States.

  21. This meeting had for one of its objects the acknowledgment of funds recently sent from America.

  22. On inquiry, I was told that the funds obtained in support of the enterprise had proved insufficient, and that some expected contributions had failed.

  23. He came to this country, but the remittances failed to follow him, and he presently found himself without funds in a foreign land.

  24. We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union.

  25. Care, however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association, since undesignated funds will not reach us.

  26. By this time the company was running short of ready funds to such an extent that instructions had been issued to adjusters that all claims hereafter would take the customary sixty days before payment.

  27. The home offices saw to it that the funds were provided.

  28. I explained that our funds were being raised by assessments which were levied once a month and that, if agreeable, we would pay him sixty per cent of his claim and the balance in sixty days.

  29. The stockholders had already provided the funds to pay losses and to now ask for more money for any other than loss-paying purposes, gallant as was the spirit of those directly interested, seemed dangerous.

  30. His prudent farming of the funds spent in searching for the lost one has considerably improved his stock of money; but the matter of late years has almost died out.

  31. Unable to raise further funds on his own responsibility, he had accepted the proffer of assistance from Mme.

  32. So carelessly were these funds managed that one receiver-general, engaged in business, became a heavy defaulter.

  33. In my youth, long ago, nearly forty years ago, I traveled all over Russia with Father Anfim, collecting funds for our monastery, and we stayed one night on the bank of a great navigable river with some fishermen.

  34. The sum stolen was small, and he shortly afterwards subscribed the whole of it, and much more, towards the funds for maintaining an almshouse in the town.

  35. The funds for these purposes are provided by the department, the commune and the central authority.

  36. In ordinary cases this degree of arrearage would not be serious, but on the scale of the establishment here it amounts to seven or eight thousand dollars, which being to come out of my private funds will be felt by them sensibly.

  37. EMEND'ALS, funds set apart for repairs in the accounts of the Inner Temple.

  38. They were unfit for the mere routine of husbandry, and unprovided with funds for working their farms.

  39. It seems to me to be a mistake in legislation to encourage a system by which these two funds merge into one, and that hands the income arising from the expenditure of the working classes over to the tenants-in-fee without an equivalent.

  40. But it provided[89] that any school district which neglected to establish a Negro school or schools according to the law should be deprived of any portion of the State school funds for that year.

  41. Certain citizens of Hanover desired to lay a tax on slaves and free Negroes to raise funds to deport them all.

  42. The special work is financed by subscriptions, funds raised by entertainments, and the donations of the students and teachers.

  43. They were granted also the right to have their share in any funds or other property held in trust for the tribe turned over to them.

  44. An endeavor to secure funds to carry out the programs of these voluntary organizations usurps much of the time and energy of those who lead them.

  45. When the directors of a district neglect to establish a Negro school according to the law, the district is deprived of any part of the State school funds for that year.

  46. It further provided that all funds for the support of the public schools should be appropriated in proportion to the number of children without regard to color.

  47. These institutions have not those who are professionally trained on their faculties and they lack funds to procure the service of such persons.

  48. The indebtedness incurred by the board of directors in providing suitable buildings, hiring teachers, and maintaining the school shall be paid out of the appropriate funds of the district.

  49. This tax had been continued after sufficient funds had been collected to extinguish the debt for which it was originally levied, but venal sheriffs had failed to pay it into the treasury.

  50. They feared that the interior would tax their slaves in order to secure funds for internal improvements.

  51. The members of some of these old corporations or guilds are by no means all artisans, and about all they have to do is to manage the charities and trust funds that have descended to them.

  52. The Great Expositions at London and Paris drew from our shores every American who could by any manner of means or excuse leave business, and obtain funds sufficient to get over and back, if only for a six weeks' visit.

  53. Funds were to be raised, and therefore a poem was to be written.

  54. Protection, even on the most moderate scale, to Native Industry, is not to be attained without the imposition of import-duties; and that will at once produce the funds requisite for the attainment of all these objects.

  55. And the money I had set aside I sent to the funds of the great Dock Strike in England, which was going on at that time.

  56. The twenty thousand in the funds are his, to do what he pleases with; let the land be tied up, as it may.

  57. We must either work the campaign funds into their legitimate channels, or every blamed patriot within the sound of my voice will have to fasten on a tin bill and rustle for angle-worms amongst the hens.

  58. I sell it in order to raise the necessary funds for the development of the Governor of North Carolina.

  59. The claimant was constantly assured that his claim was a good one and on these autograph letters written with a type-writer, the war-born veteran with a concussed vertebra bought groceries and secured the funds to pay his assessments.

  60. Receiving another notice of assessment on my stock in the Aladdin mine the other day, reminded me that I was still interested in a bottomless hole that was supposed at one time to yield funds instead of absorbing them.

  61. This rule is also good when applied to young and self-supporting young men who wear good clothes and have funds in their pockets.

  62. I intended to aid them from my own pocket, but found upon examination that I had no funds in my pocket; also, no pocket; also, no place to put a pocket if I had brought one with me.

  63. Funds were also necessary to pay for a brother who had walked through a railroad trestle into the shoreless sea of eternity, and whose widow had a policy of $135.

  64. In fact, it began the oblivion business about forty-eight hours after Jim had put his funds in there.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "funds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; assets; backing; balance; budget; capacity; capital; circumstances; device; exchequer; finance; finances; fund; funds; mean; means; method; money; pocket; pool; power; purse; recourse; reserves; resort; resource; resources; savings; stock; substance; supply; tangible; treasure; treasury; way; wealth; wherewithal