8 sentences with “benevolent”

A benevolent act can change anyone's day.

I enjoy the company of people with a benevolent heart.

Descartes personally embraced the view that God was a benevolent and reasonable power of creation, but that he did not stoop to meddling in the universe.

A benevolent God in heaven, creator of the universe and beyond the realm of nature and the known, controlled all events, fighting against the force of darkness, known as the Devil or Satan, here on earth.

As the craters in the Martian canals indicate that they were formed between one hundred and three billion years ago, it is thought that this planet, now red and dry, had a more benevolent and humid climate two billion years ago.... two billion years ago.

Most Enlightenment thinkers argued that the "real" natural universe was governed by natural laws, all watched over by a benevolent but utterly remote "supreme being" - this was essentially the same as the deism that had emerged from the Scientific Revolution.

Others have been less benevolent. In Cambridge academic circles, where Hawking cultivated an image of "difficult genius" and where his contemporaries were sometimes so intimidated by him that they could not bring themselves to buy him a beer, some mistook his attitude for arrogance and a spirit of contradiction.

Jackson declared in December 1830: "I am pleased to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, which has been steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching a happy consummation. Two important tribes have accepted the provision made for their removal at the last session of Congress, and it is believed that their example will induce the remaining tribes to seek also the same obvious advantages."