Sentence examples for fundraiser from inspiring English sources

Yes, he certainly talks up renewables more – his latest campaign ad shows him next to solar panels – but at his own fundraiser on Wednesday, he said: Oil production is up.

In 2010, the Labor party cancelled a $5,500-a-head business fundraiser with then prime minister Julia Gillard due to the possibility it would become a "media spectacle".

The biennial Red Nose Day UK fundraiser encourages people to "do something funny for money" in their school, community or workplace.

Being unable to deny a story that he had told colleagues he had scheduled a public event in Melbourne in order to justify claiming travel entitlements for a party fundraiser, Tony Abbott moved to change "the story" on Wednesday to specific actions his government was taking to increase counter-terrorism customs capacity at airports.

He was mingling again with the Conservative top brass this week at their 2014 summer fundraiser, this time at the Hurlingham private members' club in west London, where a bottle of champagne signed by Thatcher was auctioned for £45,000.

Companies associated with Murdoch and Packer were to underwrite a $132m rights issue by One.Tel in early 2001, but the fundraiser was cancelled as the company's directors believed it was not enough money to keep the telco going.

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Related: Conservative donors pay up to £15,000 for table at election fundraiser As those well-known pinko lefties at the Financial Times put it back in 2011: "Even donors admit that Tory MPs' desire to cut the 50p top rate of income tax is because these rich City donors are so close to the party".

The group raised $12,680 at a recent fundraiser in Sydney and was also urging Irish people in Australia to contact their relatives and friends at home to encourage a yes vote.

Related: I'm a fundraiser turned chief executive - boards must take risks on people like me Telethon night highlights included a Game of Thrones mock musical by Coldplay that has attracted over 7m hits on YouTube, The Voice winner Sawyer Fredericks' rendition of John Lennon's Imagine and an acoustic duet by Ed Sheeran and Kermit the Frog of the Muppet Movie song, Rainbow Connection.

In Australia, a Red Nose Day has existed since 1987 as the main annual fundraiser for SIDS and Kids, a national charity supporting families affected by infant death.