Marcus S. Owens, a lawyer who headed the Internal Revenue Service division that oversees charities and foundations, said the Casey foundation might incur taxes on its purchase because it would have difficulty demonstrating that buying the letter furthered a charitable purpose.
She wanted to demonstrate how easy buying a gun was, she told the police, but she was arrested after a town representative saw her carrying the weapon under a white cloth.
Do we generate trash to demonstrate our buying power, often a symbol of our sexual power?
"We will demonstrate that (buying HBOS) is something that has completely repositioned the bank … I think the shareholders and the taxpayer will do very, very well with their investment in Lloyds".
Our group had an exciting walk-about with our hotel's executive chef, Andres Davila, as he demonstrated his daily routine buying the fresh foods that would be served for dinner that evening.
People who shop on TV are a subset of their own: they like to see a product demonstrated before they'll buy.
But it's been demonstrated that more guns bought for self-defense will go off in a crime, suicide or accident than for self-defense.
The internet helps you demonstrate your virtue by buying products from the farthest corners of the earth (if you are a fair-trade enthusiast) or from just round the corner (if you are a locavore).
Reback was the first speaker at last month's Ralph Nader anti-Microsoft event in Washington, and he demonstrated how, after Microsoft bought the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia and turned it into the P.C. product Encarta in 1993, the entry on Bill Gates became more positive.
Juliet Schor, a professor of sociology at Boston College, said that a number of European studies had demonstrated that people who bought green products or did some sort of similar "conscious consumerism" didn't stop there, but continued on with other types of environmental activism.
