Sentence examples for excessive campaign from inspiring English sources

But the bill bans soft money -- contributions to the political parties by special-interest groups and corporations, whose excessive campaign contributions poison our political process.

The allegations have shaken the ?ys?Palace, as have suggestions that Mr. Sarkozy's former budget minister, ?ic Woerth, not only took excessive campaign contributions from Mrs. Bettencourt, 87, the heiress to the L'Or?

WASHINGTON — The Biden for President campaign committee owes the Treasury more than $219,000 because it accepted excessive campaign contributions and understated the value of a trip taken on a private plane in the 2008 campaign, the Federal Election Commission said in a new report.

Big Republican backer paid $36,700 in fines for excessive campaign contributions and was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, anyway; stepped down 15 months later.

Whether in the circulation of petitions, the alteration of documents, false statements of residency or income, excessive campaign contributions, unreported bundling, or other sins, politics provides many opportunities for misconduct by candidates or their supporters.

an 23 (Reuters) - Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) occurs across Africa and has recently been aggressively spreading in the Middle East, despite excessive vaccination campaigns carried out in the region.

The government slapped Mr. Ivanishvili with what many considered excessive fines for campaign spending violations.

Reviewing Ian Davidson's Voltaire in Exile in the Sunday Telegraph, Munro Price was impressed that in his autumn years Voltaire not only published Candide, but also "became a model paternalistic landlord, improving agriculture, breeding horses, defending his peasants against excessive taxation and campaigning for the abolition of the last relics of serfdom".

He has also been accused of excessive spending by former campaign staff and sued by a former campaign manager for unpaid salary.

Backstory The campaign against excessive bank charges started in the pages of the Guardian.