| So was John an enlightened despot, beneficently overseeing a realm of unparalleled tolerance and bonhomie? |
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| Although seva is never done with an aim in mind, it is understood to keep the gods beneficently inclined, and flawed seva may cause trouble. |
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| She was received with honour at Venice and given the castle and town of Asolo, which she governed beneficently. |
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| The issues often revolve around the tension between respecting the autonomy of seniors and acting beneficently toward them, i.e., in a way that we consider to be in their best interest. |
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| The suggestion that GCHQ is opening beneficently up is easily as convincing as Denise Richards was as a nuclear physicist in The World Is Not Enough. |
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| Common-sense rules, sometimes brutally but more often beneficently. |
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| What it captures brilliantly are the contradictions of a play in which justice is confronted by mercy, death is seen as a blessed release and a source of terror, and power both corrupts and is beneficently deployed. |
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