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In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.

Charlotte Observer

I believe that to solicit funds from private individuals, to open bank accounts, and to disburse and manage these funds without a duly-registered non-profit status is against the law.

Mary Johnson

We need to actively solicit new industry but we need to make sure our infrastructure is adequate to support new growth because that is one of the first things new business looks at when they visit a community.

Michael Brewer

I really look at it as the whole county. We are soliciting teams from all around. We're really trying to make it a whole community effort, not just Fontana and Walworth.

Cheri Mcintosh

They've been soliciting in the Arvada area for many, many years, and they only take money, which in our estimation sends up a red flag.

Duane Youse

It's totally outrageous, ... for someone to take these domain names and then solicit funds, run them through what looks like a legitimate charity using pictures and other hurricane victims, when in reality that money was running to his hate sites.

Jay Nixon

Investors are receiving calls from potential brokers, people soliciting investments and asking them to make quick decisions in a 'get rich quick' scheme.

Michael Jones

We're still soliciting ideas and volunteers. The more volunteers the better.

Will Price

We are looking for $20,000. Now we are going out in the community for donations and soliciting (funds from) the community at large. There is a fund established at Citizen's Bank at the Lake of the Pines.

Linda Kelley

There are three meetings until the election, and it would take that long, at least, to go into the public and solicit people interested in the position. The more reasonable thing to do is to let the election fill that spot.

Victoria Sublette

By soliciting input from a diverse mix of OEMs, EMS providers, suppliers and R&D institutes, we help ensure that the roadmap will be useful to industry. We are also actively recruiting participation from Europe and Asia to make sure that we have a global perspective.

Jim Arnold

Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?

Vint Cerf

Finally Friday's is first and foremost a singles dance. We never solicit married couples to attend. However, we do allow, even encourage, our single members to invite their married friends and relatives to attend as couples together (subject to the club's rules and regulations).

Gerald Pruitt

Garbage in, garbage out. If you have a dysfunctional process then good decisions occur only by accident. A functional, open and honest process will lead to many good decisions. You go about it in a methodical way. You are soliciting input instead of rushing or pushing something through.

Mark Swanger

Someone is out there using our good name soliciting funds.

Jim Flaherty

How can he say he didn't know or he didn't solicit it? ... It's right in the contract.

Lance Olson

We just don't have that many businesses in town to make that worthwhile. I don't think we're ever going to have a big commercial base. There just aren't that many places to solicit people into.

Stephen Powers

The homeowner contacted us after she got a business card from a contractor who was soliciting door to door. She had been ripped off prior to the flood, so she was glad to let us use her house.

Carl Vega

This is an idea that needs to be validated. It was never designed to be rolled out in final fashion. It's like a concept paper. It's not a finished product, just an idea. We didn't solicit buy-in because it was just an idea.

Susie Wiles

I'm very proud of the outpouring of support, ... We've received money without soliciting. I'm gratified.

Martin Chavez

[While the plaintiffs argue that the effort to solicit public input on the plan several years ago was] a sham, ... there was a lengthy process where public comment was taken, and it was taken seriously.

Julie Benson

We intend to solicit longer contracts than are common in today's market to protect our customers from the degree of short-term price volatility seen during 2005.

Pedro Pizarro

We don't solicit donations, and there are other organizations that people can donate to and other discount retailers they can shop at.

Jeff Bong

If they ask, and explain what they're doing, they can solicit and do a gate collection for this cause.

Dan Macdonald

At this point, the secretary of state has no choice but to try to solicit help from the DOJ to try to get Boone County into compliance.

Stacie Temple

This time, they really didn't solicit any input.

Carla Sullivan

Committee assignments have been made. We welcome more volunteers to join us and, of course, we are beginning to solicit donations of money, prizes, gifts, gift certificates and the others things we will need to make this event a success.

Sue Maus

We are in the process of contacting every player in the league to solicit their support and ideas on how we can make a difference as quickly as possible.

Antonio Davis

We are going to solicit quotations from different collectors, because we haven't done it for a while. We were approached by the township to see if we were willing to go out and take a look. That's what the (school) board agreed to do.

Brett Lago

It is an outrage for someone to solicit funds from well-meaning Americans eager to lend a helping hand to the victims of hurricane Katrina, only to funnel those donations to something that is nothing more than a racist hate site.

Jay Nixon

Did he tell you he is trying to be executive director? That's why he brought that cash. He was there soliciting votes to become executive director.

Michael Downey

Even when she was raising us, she would make time to go out and solicit friends and acquaintances to raise money for the work of the UJF (United Jewish Federation).

Beatrice E. Morrison

I don't solicit money from my employees, ... I indicated earlier that we will not require them to buy fund-raising tickets, to sell fund-raising tickets or do political work.

Jesse White

It's just as simple as that. Individuals and organizations unrelated to our business are not allowed to solicit.

Kathryn Gallagher

They will try to solicit foster parents. There's a shortage of foster parents in Arizona. Children get rotated around every few months. Foster parents can provide a stable environment.

Armando Vargas

He has tried to market himself as an expert in certain things and has been apparently soliciting engagement fees based on the expertise he has in this area.

Dennis Hall

It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the idea that we were doing something like this. I did not go out and solicit from my friends. They came to me.

Florence Seidelman

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

William T. Sherman

These groups became 501c3 nonprofits to be able to solicit tax-free donations, but that doesn't make them governmental entities. Governments can't make direct transfers to private organizations.

Richard Bohling

It's heated up. People have asked questions about soliciting funds, endorsements and public speaking.

Paul Ross

Soliciting is the handing out of materials or distributing things to people, and essentially, that's what he was doing. He was handing out photos on university property.

Bill Mercier

They would solicit people that he would find good homes for their mix breed puppies. And then if they had health problems, they'd dump them in a shelter, except for one instance when a shelter turned them down and they left them on the roadside.

Richard Gerbasi

These guys do, and are, able to find minors online and are often able to solicit them successfully. It's really important that we're able to get them before they do it again. It would be great to get to them quicker, but the absolute workload is unimaginable to anyone who does go into these rooms.

Xavier Von Erck

If they don?t apply, we?re going to ask them to apply. We?re going to go out and solicit them.

Dave Madden

The board instructed us to contact the various interested parties comprised of the labor organizations, county retiree organizations and others and solicit from them ideas as to what can be done to ensure the viability of these ancillary benefits.

Brian White

If they're soliciting to people saying they're not receiving any federal reimbursement . . . that seems like we may have an issue with them being deceptive with donors. But I don't want to criticize them for being successful in figuring out how the system works.

Trent Stamp

Philosophies such as Marxism-Leninism and Communism are entirely losing their attractiveness. With the gunshots in 1989, they have collapsed like soap bubbles. Being in this situation, the Chinese Communist Party is soliciting new concepts to unify the Chinese society. Nationalism or patriotism seems operable to fill the vacuum left by Marxism-Leninism and Mao's Communism.

Yu Jie