11.   Recently the Friends contacted hospital staff asking them to make regular payments to the charity, with the money funding schemes such as a creche and health care bursaries.

12.   Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who shepherded legislation on a sales-tax funding scheme for the dome, could not be reached for comment.

13.   Only short-sighted or naive church leaders back these government funding schemes.

14.   The money from the sale will be used by the three countries to fund their schemes to protect elephants from poaching and to support conservation and community development projects.

15.   The US Agency for International Development is funding the scheme.

16.   The European Union and Japan agreed to fund the scheme during talks in the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat on Wednesday.