1.   Food shortages prompted a flood of charitable donations.

2.   Funding any serious number of scholarships depends on the United States law that allows taxpayers to set their charitable donations against tax.

3.   Having given away all her money in Rome, she begged her food, or existed on charitable donations.

4.   The sisters had no money for food and medicines, but they received a continuous stream of charitable donations.

5.   She makes a charitable donation every year.

6.   The second beneficiary, the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, relies totally on charitable donations for its desperately-needed equipment.

7.   Since nineteen eighty seven it has been possible to arrange for employees to have charitable donations deducted from their pay through the payroll giving scheme.

8.   Also under consideration are increasing tax deductions for charitable donations, and tax breaks for charitable institutions.

9.   And because the Red Cross need not make money -- and in fact is supplemented by charitable donations -- some have said it cheats.

10.   And charitable donations, often organized by the state, are unable to cover the huge tab that the government has dropped.