bequest

They use power to consolidate and bequest power.

Did you know Johns Hopkins was founded by a bequest from a prominent Baltimore banker.

This 'Fed coin' should be issued to every taxpayer and the value of that bequest should gradually fade away until it is spent.

The citation comes with a $100,000 bequest by the Pulitzer Board to be used to further the newspaper’s journalistic mission.

If someone wanted to extend this concept a bit further, how about a one-play-only game that could only be passed on as a bequest.

Verizon didn't magically start collecting these data at the bequest of the government.

Or that quite a few nonprofits don't actually do very much beyond draw down the bequest left by some dead rich person who cared about a particular issue.

Who's going to make a college turn down a potential huge bequest in return for a handful of slightly-less-meritorious admissions?

From the above link: "According to the terms of the bequest, at least fifty percent of the awards go to Roman Catholic colleges or universities.

[5] Jefferson recommended his friend John Hartwell Cocke, who also opposed slavery, to be executor, but Cocke also declined to execute the bequest.

The barbarians were invited, by the millions and millions, from hundreds or thousands of miles away, at the bequest of the American elites, to conquer a continent at no risk to themselves.

In the article, second paragraph of the History section>Several years after Kościuszko's death, Jefferson, aged 77, pleaded his inability to execute the will due to age[4] and the numerous legal complexities of the bequest.

I meant only that it was surely not a case of political will to action being stymied by failing technology, but rather something between political inertia and will to inaction meeting happily with the failing technology which was, after all, its bequest.