Most land deals contribute little or nothing to the public purse.
Yet the populations that are rising fastest contribute very little to climate change.
With this effort as with any Afghan "surge", we can expect Nato partners to talk a good game but contribute relatively little.
These jobs proposals are also paid for by asking folks who are making more than a million dollars a year to contribute a little more in taxes.
This year the standard is 12.6 billion gallons of corn ethanol, which the industry expects to exceed, with other renewables to contribute a little more than 2 billion gallons.
And I know that many of our wealthiest citizens would agree to contribute a little more if it meant reducing the deficit and strengthening the economy that made their success possible.
The option is then open to the customer (as it is in Europe) to contribute a little extra for a job well done, or a little less (as it is not in Europe) for a job poorly done.
In an industry that has seen increased competition for live sports and soccer inventory in the last five years or so the fact that no dollar value was included in the press release tells you that the deals are all about exposure and contribute very little to the bottom line.
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Frank Mora, a Latin America expert at the National Defense University in Washington, also notes that Venezuela has little to contribute to the upcoming exercises.
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Fewer than one-half of American families have retirement savings accounts in any given year, and those who do contribute are saving too little for their futures.
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Everyone suffers from this scenario as members of the IT department are held hostage by endless product backlogs, leaving little room to contribute their own creative wisdom.
Though part of the recent decline is accounted for by recession, some industrialists argue that the figures show that the EU can do little more to contribute to further reductions in carbon emissions.
But they defended limits targeting sugary drinks with an eye toward soda as a sensible step because the beverages can so readily can contribute to obesity, have little nutritional value and don't offer a feeling of fullness when consumed.
In Kosovo, where Americans and Europeans co-operated closely and successfully, both diplomatically and militarily, the Europeans were plain embarrassed at how little they could contribute to the air campaign against Serbia and just how few troops they could muster quickly enough to police the cease-fire.
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You will be amazed at how little you have to contribute to achieve this, if you are young.
The approach they do support is one that asks everyone to pay their fair share, that includes asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more, but that also demands that we all contribute and that our government perform efficiently and effectively.
Like his fellows on the radical left, he dreams of a world with little American influence and claims a leadership role without offering any ideas that contribute to world peace: such as stability, human rights, opposition to international terrorism and nuclear proliferation , or, any moral problems that have traditionally been the West's preoccupation.
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They revealed little funding from oil companies and other self interested commercial enterprises, who actually contribute heavily to global warming alarmists as protection money instead.
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Mind you, someone whose businesses contribute 5.3% of his country's tax revenues can afford to be a little self-indulgent.
There seems little doubt that Claimant Spilkevitz thought the customers were full of crap and that she would not contribute one cent to any bogus settlement.
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As food and energy prices contribute 1.7% to Consumer Prices Index Inflation - which recently reached 3% - this leaves "little room" for price rises elsewhere.
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