Hunn was to be an early beneficiary of these developments.

The Narragansetts were an early beneficiary of the Passamaquoddy precedent.

Margaret was an early beneficiary of the royal coup, she and her husband emerging as the leading advisors to the king.

Among them was the "Larry Bird exception", named after the former player who was an early beneficiary of the rule.

Mr. McMahon was an early beneficiary of this changing mood, they say.

Poland and Hungary would be early beneficiaries of the reassessment, officials said.

Among his foundation's early beneficiaries was Friedrich von Hayek.

It already seems obvious that Mr Kinnock will be the earliest beneficiary, and this for a simple reason.

But there had been other earlier and less obvious beneficiaries of his skill at making dull metals shiny.

Caste elders in the various villages were also among the early beneficiaries of Portuguese recognition, perhaps because they were the first to be converted.