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Example sentences for "welfare"

Lexicographically close words:
welded; welding; welds; wele; weled; welke; welked; welkin; well; wellbeing
  1. For five or six years past, it has not been your welfare nor even the welfare of science, that prevented me from reanimating you, it has been.

  2. The welfare of each one of his men is in his hands; the flag is placed under his tent or in his chamber.

  3. It had been arranged that they were not to return till the Saturday evening, and that the dog Remus was to bring intelligence of them and their welfare every afternoon.

  4. We build in the first instance for the sake of necessary shelter and accommodation, or for the commemoration, propitiation or worship of spiritual powers on whom we believe our welfare to depend.

  5. Though he kept the machinery of his kingdom fairly efficient, and was a patriot to the extent of brooking no foreign interference, he made little account of the wishes or welfare of his subjects.

  6. They change it from a highly abstract science into a study of the conditions of human welfare as affected by social organisation.

  7. The idealised institution becomes itself the object of worship, and it is entirely forgotten that a Christian Church ought to have no 'interests' except the highest welfare of humanity.

  8. The new ruler was as enlightened as his predecessor, and had as much the welfare of the people at heart; but he respected, at the same time, the laws and the constitution.

  9. Gentlemen, I acknowledge that what you have just heard might be a pledge of the welfare of the country, if the offers of despotism were not always dangerous.

  10. He sincerely desired the welfare of the people, and in engaging in this fruitless conflict he was by no means actuated by sinister intentions or by a despotic disposition.

  11. Robert felt much obliged for the interest in his welfare which prompted this eligible offer.

  12. Members of the Peace-Union agree to support whatever may be shown by free discussion through our Periodical to be suitable, practicable and necessary to promote the common welfare of the Peace-Union, which is the welfare of mankind.

  13. I confess to be nothing else but a true republican, a man for free discussion, testifying what I know, and offering it to be duly examined and used for the welfare of nations.

  14. And this nervous system has been so trained during a limitless past that its responses are the ones which are necessary for the welfare of its owner.

  15. Extreme and long-continued fatigue is hostile to the development and welfare of any nervous system, and especially to that of children.

  16. The optimist is a benefactor of the race if for no other reason than the sheer contagion of his hopeful spirit; the pessimist contributes neither to the world's welfare nor its happiness.

  17. Interest picks out those that are most vitally connected with the welfare of the organism, and the child comes to prefer these rather than the others.

  18. But just as soon as the Seminole baby has gained sufficient strength to toddle he learns that the more he can do for himself and the more he can contribute to the general domestic welfare the better he will get along in life.

  19. The women not only care for their children and look after the preparation of food and the general welfare of the home, but are, besides, laborers in the fields.

  20. Although Queen Wilhelmina is fonder of her home and more interested in the welfare of her subjects than she is of public life, she is a splendid stateswoman and diplomat.

  21. The hotel-keepers were too busy looking after the welfare and comforts of tired Americans to take time to discuss war.

  22. In Edward, from the time when he used to visit his little brother every day in Paston's chambers, to the hour of his death, there was a loving protection and a solicitude for the lad's welfare which was shown in many ways.

  23. Catesby was the faithful and loyal minister of a King who studied the welfare of his subjects, and was the Speaker of the best Parliament that had sat since the time of Edward I.

  24. Mr. Wallace has conducted his business with rare sagacity, with unblemished integrity, and with an eye to the welfare of his employees, as well as to his own personal interests.

  25. From this scene of natural feeling, Content was too quickly summoned by the intelligence that some one without awaited his presence, on business of the last importance to the welfare of the settlement.

  26. Ruth profited by a momentary cessation in the flight of the missiles, to seek those in whose welfare she had placed her chief concern.

  27. Christian Religion should be taken Care of, unless Ecclesiasticks ride in Coaches and Six; or the Spiritual Welfare of the Laity, without Temporal Dominion and an extravagant Power in the Clergy?

  28. It is only out of the deepest solicitude for your welfare that I ask this question, for I fear for your future happiness, and that you may be fatally mistaken in this man.

  29. Can you not have faith that the prayers she breathed for your welfare with her dying lips, will be answered?

  30. You must know that it is my great anxiety for your welfare that induces me to take upon myself all this care and trouble.

  31. As regards the females, they are much more solicitous for the welfare of their progeny in a wild state than a tame.

  32. There is a house to be leased or purchased, servants to be engaged, a will to be made, or property settled, in all families; and much of the welfare of its members depends on these things being done in proper legal form.

  33. The magnates accordingly were entirely indifferent to the welfare of the rest of Jewry, the toiling masses of the Jewish population.

  34. In these enactments the Lithuanian ruler exhibits, like Casimir, an enlightened solicitude for a peaceful relationship between Jews and Christians and for the inner welfare of the Jewish communities.

  35. Apparently, dearest brothers, you have a desire to increase and preserve the welfare of your city; and this desire moved you to write to me, poor wretch that I am, full of faults.

  36. And our body should not be sacrificed to rescue the body of our neighbour; but we ought surely to sacrifice our bodily life for the salvation of souls, and temporal possessions for the welfare and life of our neighbour.

  37. She had the comfort of the company of several confessors; the first of these letters shows them labouring with homely eagerness, quaintly expressed, for the religious welfare of the wild soldiery.

  38. But I will not conceal anything from you, by which you may be affected; for I really think your personal welfare and the happiness of America are intimately connected.

  39. A minister of justice and religion (Dharma Mahamatra) directed its operations; and, one of its first duties being to proselytize, he was specially charged with the welfare of the aborigines among whom its missionaries were sent.

  40. For the parents’ choice is not always wise, and among sinful mankind there are not a few who will sacrifice a daughter’s welfare to their own profit.

  41. When we spoke of it afterwards to their pastor, he said, 'The idea that a stranger and a foreigner should take an interest in their welfare stirred the deep fountains of their hearts.

  42. Who will have your children's welfare at heart?

  43. And thanks to you, too, that you take your mother's welfare to heart.

  44. He was buried up to his ears in a swamp of petty details, all centering around the welfare and preservation of his precious self.

  45. When I had finished, he thanked me in the politest manner for the interest I took in the welfare of his daughter and himself.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "welfare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.