1.   At any rate, with spending caps plus the elimination of big donations, the minority parties had more of a chance.

2.   They say this would help convince charitable trusts who can give big donations that the people of Darlington are backing the appeal.

3.   An early big donation came from Patricia B. Hume, a socially prominent San Franciscan and a travel agent with Bryan International Travel in The City.

4.   As of Thursday, it was too early to say how big a donation the Marsalis performance generated.

5.   Critics also say the ads are a direct threat to campaign spending laws that limit the use of big donations from corporations and wealthy individuals for federal elections.

6.   Fugitive financier Marc Rich has an ex-wife who supposedly promised big donations to the Clinton Library.

7.   Harvard recently received a big donation from an alumnus and is using it to endow not a new building or a distinguished professor but its head football coach.

8.   He is forever using his charm to extract big corporate donations to build desperately needed schools or clinics, often in distant corners of the country.

9.   He mentioned cable entrepreneur Ted Turner and financier George Soros, who have made big donations to international causes.

10.   Hirsh said that the federation received a big donation of clothes from the City of Angels Church of Religious Science, an African-American church in Los Angeles.