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n. (plural of contribution English)

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The Project gratefully accepts contributions of money, time, public domain materials, or royalty free copyright licenses.

There was certainly a considerable disparity between the amount of their respective contributions to the volume, which, in fact, contained nineteen pieces by Wordsworth and only four by Coleridge.

But, with the exception of his occasional contributions to the press, whatever he committed to paper during these years exists only, if at all, in a fragmentary form.

The series of contributions extends from September of 1811 until April of the following year, and appears to have nearly come to a premature and abrupt close in the intermediate July, when an article written by Coleridge in strong opposition to the proposed reinstatement of the Duke of York in the command-in-chief was, by ministerial influence, suppressed before publication.

As of February, 2002, contributions are being solicited from people and organizations in: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Link, had already made some contributions to society about which her mother felt ridiculous pride.

Azazel, with remarkable complacence, there because I am about to be honored at a banquet for my contributions to the good of my people.

Even the great German mathematician Gottfried von Leibniz, with whom Newton had a long, bitter fight over priority for the invention of the calculus, thought his contributions to mathematics equal to all the accumulated work that had preceded him.

Luis Alvarez was openly contemptuous of paleontologists and their contributions to scientific knowledge.

The new congressional emphasis on foreign contributions is very good for us.

But the most recent SSC appropriations bill contains the requirement that the SSC project must have about a billion dollars in contributions from other countries.

He was a big contributor to the Bush campaign in 1988, but recently he's switched his contributions to Clinton and Perot.

Whether you're aware of it or not, your campaign received very large contributions from several political action committees under my control.

Your opponents' campaigns will receive very large contributions from my PACs, and you'll receive none.

From the same record we gather that Coleridge's interest in current politics was already keen, and that he was an eager reader, not only of Burke's famous contributions thereto, but even a devourer of all the pamphlets which swarmed during that agitated period from the press.