Example sentences for: soft-money

How can you use “soft-money” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to the New York Times , last year the Democrats had 45 soft-money contributions over $250,000, while the Republicans had at least 75.

  • Foreign money travels two routes into party coffers: 1) direct contributions by foreign companies and individuals, which are flatly illegal; and 2) soft-money contributions by American subsidiaries of foreign companies . Last week, the DNC announced that it would no longer accept either type of foreign money.

  • According to an article in the Wall Street Journal by a reporter who went along on Brown's China trip, seats on his plane were essentially sold off in exchange for soft-money contributions.

  • Hard currencies aren't pegged to metals any longer, but in casual political and macroeconomic parlance, soft-money people are those who take an optimistic and permissive attitude toward control of the money supply, and hard-money people are those who take a grouchy and restrictive one.

  • Gray, who has berated Clinton's fund-raising techniques, is himself a massive soft-money donor and a lobbyist who exploits his insider ties.


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