Sentence examples for returning contributions from inspiring English sources

As he prepared to dissolve the Paramount Center for the Arts, he said, he was returning contributions received after the closing.

In the absence of rules, it falls to each politician to invent guidelines for accepting or returning contributions and to determine degrees of guilt.

His campaign recently began returning contributions that had been designated for the general election, asking the donors instead to contribute to a special fund, not subject to the public financing limits, for legal and accounting costs in the fall campaign.

It is unreasonable because where someone with a surplus who might agree with your point of view has the flexibility of returning contributions before they have been used, someone with a current campaign deficit has no such leeway.

Indeed, so toxic have the Enron donations become that all four of the Congressional campaign committees are returning contributions they received -- either to the company or to funds that have been established to help employees who have watched their retirement savings dry up.

On a slow Wednesday this week at the State House, Joseph J. Roberts Jr., the Democratic Assembly majority leader, held a news conference, ostensibly to give Republican legislators "an opportunity to do the right thing" by returning contributions they had received from Mr. Forrester.

Mr. Spitzer has returned contributions from Mr. Trump before, according to campaign aides.

For instance, Bob Dole, the last Republican nominee, returned contributions made by gay donors.

The Obama campaign says it returns contributions if it learns they came from lobbyists.

His campaign sometimes returns contributions from individuals with ties to tobacco, but not always.

Sen. Rand Paul and others also quickly said they would return contributions.