During the Pennsylvanian times of the Carboniferous Period (about 318 million to 299 million years ago) and the early part of the Permian Period, the Ouachita segment of the orogenic belt contributed large amounts of sediments from clastic (eroded and broken) rock.
Though his clout has diminished in recent years due to the Democrats' ascent, in the past he enjoyed access to the likes of Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator, and he and his sprawling family have contributed large amounts to Congressional candidates in states from Utah to Virginia.
He sits on the board of directors for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and contributed large amounts of his travel business profits into passing the legalization laws in Washington State and Oregon.
He helped produced the committee's book, "Rare Bird of California," and contributed large amounts of field work to the Los Angeles Breeding Bird Atlas and eBird.org, an ornithology database.
Alabama's athletics director was heavily criticized for overselling the ticket allotment and for limiting ticket distribution to fans who had contributed large amounts of money to the athletics department.
Within the Church of Scientology, the Xenu story is part of the church's secret "Advanced Technology", considered a sacred and esoteric teaching, which is normally only revealed to members who have contributed large amounts of money.
Pacific salmon and steelhead once contributed large amounts of marine-derived carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus to freshwater ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America (California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho).
historically contributed large amounts of marine-derived carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States of America (California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho) (Kline et al., 1990; Larkin & Slaney, 1997; Cederholm et al., 1999; Gresh, Lichatowich & Schoonmaker, 2000; Bilby et al., 2003).
Since queries with small |Q| contribute large amount of query time.
Thus local-to-global reciprocity was possible, and we expected that (i) subjects would preferentially cooperate in the pairwise stage with neighbours that had contributed larger amounts in the group stage; and (ii) as a result, we would observe stable high levels of group contribution (in contrast to the control).
