31.   In addition, he receives large donations from lawyers at Washington lobbying firms representing the telecommunications industry.

32.   In addition, party legal advisers specifically warned against excessively large donations so as not to attract attention from the IRS.

33.   In recent weeks, nearly a third of that money has been returned after questions have been raised about the propriety of many large donations.

34.   In the last election, Republican fund-raising drives strongly implied that large donations would help buy special access to the Republicans controlling Congress.

35.   In March, Bush begrudgingly signed into law a campaign finance reform bill that would make such large unregulated donations illegal after the mid-term elections in November.

36.   In the first few months, contributors who attended White House coffees often made a large donation after a discreet period of time, they said.

37.   Instead of those large donations, the new coin of the realm would be the smaller and more labor-intensive hard-money contributions.

38.   It solicits money openly in mosques across the Arab world, and receives large donations from mainstream companies and executives.

39.   Knight said some of the money came as large donations from wealthy individuals, but he declined to name them.

40.   Large PAC donations, he said, create a much more serious appearance problem for the recipient.