11.   Critics say soft money donations often are used to circumvent campaign finance laws written to limit the influence of wealthy donors in political campaigns.

12.   Donations will be used to help cover the many expenses.

13.   Find out how donations will be used and request written information.

14.   Gallagher has been urging United Ways to shift from acting as a club of member charities to focusing on how to use donations to improve social conditions.

15.   He and Fuller decided they would use donations to the fund to start building houses, no-frills structures that poor people could buy through no-interest loans.

16.   How strange, we wonder facetiously, that a man should want his donation used in a manner consistent with his wishes?

17.   If you intend for your donation to be used in rescue operations in the Upper Plains flooding, write Red River Floods on the check.

18.   If the fund reaches its goal, some donations will be used to bring Ioudenitch to Fort Worth from Ohio for a piano recital next year.

19.   In Jarrell disaster-relief officials say they have been inundated with food and clothes for the victims and could now use financial donations instead.

20.   In the past, the Red Cross has faced criticism and even legal action for using donations raised in response to one disaster to help victims of other disasters.