Bank profits are being channelled into shoring up their balance sheets, rather than new investments. |
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Large areas of the rock are covered in concrete for catchment which is then channelled into huge underground reservoirs. |
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The alleged bribes were channelled through a number of companies set up for the purpose. |
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The funds are believed to have been channelled to the Chavez camp through an offshore company on the island of Curacao. |
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Whilst excelling in architecture James also channelled his creativity into writing and photography. |
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It is true that the military channelled logistical support to Abkhaz separatists during the war. |
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It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism. |
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It provides a useful starting point to determine where money is being channelled. |
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How can some of that emotion be channelled to indignation about poverty and social injustice here too? |
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The downside is that his brilliant musicianship was channelled into commercial hits. |
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He channelled his rising anger into swimming and cycling, and soon began winning junior triathlons. |
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He said salaries up to the rank of senior superintendent would be improved and money channelled towards scarce skills. |
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Ireland's political circumstances may have channelled aristocratic leisure into fighting rather than blood sports. |
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The pottery is usually plain and dark in colour, sometimes with channelled decoration and moulded handles. |
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Take care to swim towards the exit point from the east so as to avoid the heavily channelled bedrock to the west of the exit. |
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The channelled whelk is almost as big, and may be distinguished by the deep, channelled grooves which follow the whorls of the shell. |
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Through an elaborate maze of nets suspended by floats, fish are channelled into captivity. |
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The millwheel was driven by water from the River Cole, which was channelled along an artificial leat. |
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The funding of these local tourist boards should be guaranteed and channelled through Local Enterprise Companies. |
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This investment channelled mainly into the mining, agribusiness, energy, financial services and infrastructure sectors. |
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Once the effluent is pushed up it is then channelled towards the algae basin. |
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Water will be channelled via an old intake on the left bank about 150 metres upstream of Miners Bridge. |
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Heavy-duty vehicles moving hazardous substances and goods are to be channelled along specific corridors. |
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This of course means that all these real dollars, instead of being channelled towards real wealth generation, will be squandered. |
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Some clinicians believe the money should be channelled towards improving the state of the nation's hospitals. |
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He says he did not benefit directly, as the money was channelled to a trust fund for a sick relative via a family trust fund. |
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The current Sydney locations all have traffic channelled into an established tollbooth or purpose built single lane. |
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On the margin of the channelled scour, the fill deposits pinch out leaving only a bioclastic lag of oysters and pectinids. |
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He has channelled his emotional pain into a vigorous and passionate account that will live long in my memory. |
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An exceptional feature of the theatre is the fact that a small stream was channelled through the space between the orchestra and the back of the proscenium. |
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Here Engel's steely touch yet emotional warmth were ideally channelled. |
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Huge amounts of energy, invention, and creativity that could have gone into science or technology and into improving the quality of life are channelled into security. |
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Crippling debt repayments and the external exploitation of natural resources have channelled money out of countries that were never wealthy in the first place. |
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Those resources have been channelled instead to sustaining the power elite and the militarization drive. |
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Rather, more support is being channelled into settled crop farming through distribution of seeds and farm implements. |
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Manure and urine is collected in a butt pan trough and channelled directly out of the parlour. |
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The songstress, who first auditioned for the reality show back in 2006, channelled Marilyn Monroe as she gave a sultry performance. |
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Sterile fish grow faster, since energy intake is channelled into additional muscle and not into the reproductive organs. |
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Lowermost leaves long-stalked, stalk angled, channelled, hairy along the sides or sometimes almost glabrous. |
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Funds have also been channelled to shell companies, alter egos and aliases, as well as successor entities. |
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The priority at the moment is to re-establish a water supply system that is channelled from the hill. |
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They are necessary, for how else can collective will be channelled into the tasks of government. |
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An anti-Westminster sentiment exists south of the border too, but it has not been channelled in the same way. |
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As I have already said, this means that funding must be distributed fairly and channelled towards solving the most serious problems. |
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In this case, we are told that huge amounts of money are being channelled to research and development. |
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After filtration the wine should be channelled into a buffer tank under neutral gas. |
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This approach ensures that funds are channelled into new and promising areas of research with a greater degree of flexibility. |
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All our energies are channelled into ensuring that our clients receive the level of service they expect and desire. |
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This means that creativity will be organised and channelled in a meaningful way. |
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One of the areas into which these efforts are channelled is the gradual amendment of rules of procedure. |
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The substitution effect of forest products and the promotion of wood could also be channelled through the organizations. |
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Mothers are buoyed up by the way their children's energy has become channelled and is being used to energise others. |
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We have channelled considerable resources into technical consulting and look forward to sharing our knowledge with you. |
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With credit channelled through multiple sources, the financial system should be more resilient than in the past. |
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In the 1950s, axeman and lyricist Klaus Renft formed the Klaus Renft Combo, which channelled Berry, Haley, Pink Floyd, the Beatles and the Stones. |
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Accordingly, Napoleon's meritocracy channelled the gifted and diligent into an educational system which was geared to serving the needs of the regime. |
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Clearly, too, it cannot be channelled towards the benefit of a specific group or sector of society at the expense of the broader swath of the population. |
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So impressed was the millionaire with the publication that he channelled his money into founding the Rockefeller Institute of Medicine in New York. |
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All the proceeds from the profits of the video will be donated to the Afghan Children's Relief Fund and the money will be channelled through the relief agency, Trocaire. |
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Since then I have channelled spirit guides for myself and others. |
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We slipped through St Bartholomew's churchyard, snowdrops fading, the fruit and nut trees blossoming, and channelled down a track towards the River Ure. |
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He channelled this aggression into martial arts training and quickly became accomplished in aikido, tae kwon do, kung-fu and others, all the while focusing on the goal of becoming a professional dancer. |
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According to the book, Joao channelled GodOs energy and that of spirits to perform psychic surgery without anaesthetic. |
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While it was later clarified that aid would be channelled through NGOs operating in the countries and only aid to governments would be cut, this step was seen as counteractive. |
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The Commission will investigate whether part of the TENs budget line, which for the next five years is only worth 1.8 billion ecus, could usefully be channelled into public equity through the European Investment Fund. |
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His reasoning was based on the belief that wrongly channelled passion can lead to indiscipline and hotheadedness. |
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The real kicker is the Ft360 billion a year government will net by ensuring that private pension contributions, until now channelled through the social-security system, stay with the taxman. |
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The money raised is specifically channelled towards The Salvation Army's social work in each respective territory. |
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The water would be heated by a log fire before being channelled into the hot bathing rooms. |
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Chelsea are additionally funded by Abramovich via interest free soft loans channelled through his holding company Fordstam Limited. |
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A typical overshot wheel has the water channelled to the wheel at the top and slightly beyond the axle. |
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The blade is normally long and flat, but may be folded, inrolled, channelled or absent. |
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In the case of stage fright, the adrenalin given off into the bloodstream is used incorrectly mal, badly channelled, in the wrong dosage, badly distributed. |
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By reserving funding for pan-European parties, Mr Leinen explicitly excludes Euro-sceptic parties which do not seek pan-European status, so taxpayers' money will be channelled to integrationist parties and denied to others. |
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Also, the programme does not clearly spell out the way in which expenditure will be channelled to growth-enhancing categories, especially in the outer years. |
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But his aggression is not always channelled to useful ends, and he sometimes talks up a tempest but fails to follow through. To his boosters, Mr Spitzer is a paragon among prosecutors: diligent, imaginative and incorruptible. |
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We see little point in setting up what in all likelihood would become a potentially monstrous bureaucracy to try to chase funds that would be channelled around the globe and in through the back door. |
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His last few years were troubled by health problems and he channelled his experiences recuperating at a health farm into Thunderball, which starts with Bond's second hangover. |
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However, it has been posited that, with the decentralization process, more money has been channelled to municipalities, attracting the attention of political parties and leaving less room for women's political participation. |
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Student Tobiah Melbourne has channelled his passion for art into a promising career as a graphic designer. |
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At Auberive, the monks channelled the Aube over about 1 km and created a system of canals to distribute clean water and drain waste water, a race for the mill allowed complete autarchy. |
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There is also, maybe, a certain bolshiness and channelled aggression in such cities as Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Belfast. |
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All of this effort is channelled through a machinery that is perhaps complex and heavy, but which responds to the complexity of issues and to the multifaceted international community. |
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It has channelled human ingenuity into innovations in both products and services which make everyday life incomparably more convenient than it was years ago. |
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The Luxembourg operations of Barclays, through which of much of the bank's controversial tax planning services are channelled, generated £1.4bn of profits in 2013 – £100m for each of the 14 people employed there. |
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The department must also reduce its reliance on outside agencies, Icai said – DfID channelled half of the £165m it budgeted for Congo into the UN and the World Bank. |
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Ranges of steep hills channelled the advance into three attacks each by an Indian or West African division. |
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At birth, however, the interatrial foramen is closed by a membraneous flap, and oxygen-depleted blood from the body enters the right atrium, is channelled into the right ventricle, and thence to the lungs for oxygenating. |
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Provincial disenfranchisement has arisen in resource-rich areas where profits from mineral extraction have not sufficiently been channelled back to the province of origin in the form of services and infrastructure. |
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I ask him, as a final throw, whether he intends his curtain calls as a tidbit tossed to fans who have come hoping to witness some directly channelled Charlie-isms. |
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Hence the advisability of linking this latest extension to permanent aid, the ultimate aim being to consolidate a system of ongoing aid channelled through the producer organisations. |
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The Luxembourg arm, through which much of the tax planning business was channelled, reported profits of £1.4bn in 2013, a sum which should halve this year, the finance director, Tushar Morzaria, said. |
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Let us hope that the dynamic forces which have now been released will genuinely be channelled into driving forward the reforms and that the political process in Bucharest will not be obstructed. |
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The current global military spending, if channelled towards economic development programmes in developing countries, would go a long way to assist them in their developmental efforts. |
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If much of the available private capital in a country is channelled solely into buying public assets, investment in new developments and ventures suffers. |
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Glutamate is produced in E. coli via the citric acid cycle suggesting that citrate and cis-aconitate are more efficiently channelled through the citric acid cycle than towards itaconate formation. |
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In order to reflect the fact that the database should be common to the institutions, the data flow should be channelled directly to the accounting officer of the Commission. |
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The significant amount of education aid channelled through university co-operation and other indirect actors makes harmonisation and coordination a priority task. |
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The cuttings are channelled to the rear through a cover flap that is permanently screwed to the machine frame and deposited directly on the ground over a wide area in front of the cage roller. |
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Aston channelled a stream of neon ions through a magnetic and an electric field and measured its deflection by placing a photographic plate in its path. |
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Much of this sediment is deposited by turbidity currents that have been channelled from the continental margins along submarine canyons into deeper water. |
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As they advanced, they were channelled into a tightly packed mass. |
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