Sentence examples for hefty contributions from inspiring English sources

It bought it the old-fashioned way -- with hefty contributions to politicians.

Donations revealed in campaign finance filings by American Crossroads, however, offer a glimpse of the kinds of hefty contributions its leaders have been soliciting.

Overall aid funds were drastically down this year, even before the American government postponed its usually hefty contributions, Ms. Gbeho said.

The Service Employees International Union will spend as much as $5 million, in addition to its hefty contributions to Democratic committees and candidates.

In going through Wal-Mart de Mexico's database of payments, investigators noticed the company was making hefty "contributions" and "donations" directly to governments all over Mexico — nearly $16 million in all since 2003.

Democracy Now had a protesters' version of Monopoly in which users were offered the chance to "buy a politician today!" Donors offering hefty contributions were greeted with messages like: "Welcome to the White House.

It took three months of savings -- and a hefty contribution from his mother -- to buy the $160 pair of shoes.

The northern European nations have grown so weary of bailouts for their southern neighbors that they were intent on exacting a hefty contribution from their latest supplicant.

In the original 2010 gene study, the authors concluded that the gene profile they'd uncovered accounted for at least 23 percent of the variation in how people responded to endurance training, which, in genetic terms, is a hefty contribution.

So eating sugar-rich food can make a hefty contribution to the calories we consume.

Jive has been profitable since its inception, thanks to a hefty contribution from its Clearspace Community, a version of the software that companies can use to talk with their own customers.