| Much of the limited aid intended to alleviate their plight has been siphoned off by government bureaucrats and sold on the black market. |
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| Both black and grey water is siphoned into a storage tank, where it is mixed, and then put into the bio-reactor. |
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| Buxom for her age, like so many pubescent children she seemed to have siphoned off vital bulk from her parents and left them to dwindle, wizen. |
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| This is simplest if you have spare cash, shares or other liquid assets that can easily be siphoned off into a trust when you die. |
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| Then they are siphoned off into a secondary burner where they are heated to 1,000 degrees, and in that process are destroyed. |
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| But in heavy rain an overflow valve under the river siphoned untreated waste, including sulfureous waste, directly into the waterway. |
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| He is credited with ensuring that government funding for education was not siphoned off for other purposes. |
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| Working discreetly with Lao politicians and military officers, foreign merchants siphoned off huge sums of official money. |
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| If he had siphoned off taxes to feather his own nest, that would be a moral issue of public interest. |
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| We stripped down the Jeep and siphoned the gas tank into three ten-gallon drums. |
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| No payment is ever made and any money inadvertently paid by an unsuspecting victim is siphoned off into the fraudsters hands. |
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| The court case illustrated how huge sums of money could be siphoned off by agents in transfer deals. |
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| Slowed by dams and spillways, with much of its flow siphoned off for users around the West, the lower Colorado is highly controlled. |
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| Vast resources were being siphoned from economic and social development into military spending. |
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| As well as making investment in gold accessible to all, ETFs have siphoned off part of the investor demand for mining companies. |
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| This problem is particularly acute in transition situations, because the experienced leadership is often siphoned away by government. |
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| Again, when supply gets siphoned off to the United States then it is Canadians who come up short. |
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| They have siphoned off some international correspondents, and in most cases have considerably developed their own media industry. |
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| Bishop also flagged new fraud control and anti-corruption strategies to ensure money was not siphoned off. |
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| Many of the nations in the region are especially interested in halting the loss of revenue being siphoned off by illegal fisherman. |
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| What we have also known is that this money has been siphoned off to pay down the debt. |
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| Though the Post has the top job site in Washington, competitors like Monster and Craigslist have siphoned off much of the revenue. |
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| The increase in metal prices has siphoned off criminal activity from this sector. |
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| Perhaps these workers did not want their dues siphoned off for political activity. |
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| After that, he may probe other, bigger cases which siphoned off trillions in state funds, with most of the money since having been stashed abroad by the corrupters. |
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| Scientific and technological research will be siphoned off into the military sector. |
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| Everyone is more willing to invest in countries when they see that funds are not being siphoned off into the pockets of corrupt officials. |
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| Molten aluminium is siphoned from the bottom of the cell by a process called tapping. |
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| In the 20th century, these industries and their workers would be siphoned off. |
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| For each rinsing cycle, the measuring vessel is siphoned off during this time using a 772 Pump Unit. |
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| Meanwhile, our country's wealth and resources were siphoned off to the West. |
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| The 70-degree water is siphoned from the cooling pond through a trio of 3-foot diameter pipes located at the northeastern corner of the pond. |
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| It is siphoned when the discharge line remains open after the pump is switched off and the medium column on the discharge side can flow back through the pump. |
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| Ferdinand Marcos may have died in 1989 but a big dollop of the cash siphoned out of the Philippines by its former strongman and his shoe-loving wife, Imelda, remains untraced or in legal limbo. |
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| With a province, if it has the proper revenues, instead of those being siphoned and sucked up by the federal government, the province could make the proper choices since it is closer to the people. |
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| Bright children, whose creativity has been siphoned out of them by years of expensive hothouse rote education purchased for them by their parents, are thus propelled into the best universities. |
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| However, there is an urgent need for new financial products with which to invest these funds in the rural economy, lest they be siphoned off to the urban economy. |
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| Value creation in high productivity cities continues, but a lot of that value is siphoned off through taxes and transfered to residents of low productivity cities, who use it to buy non-tradable services. |
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| Such holdings tend to be for subsistence rather than for commercial purposes and are often fed with feed grain which is siphoned off the adjacent collectivized farm or paid as in-kind wages. |
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| Activists demanded it should be administered separately under a chief executive-like head, instead of politicians who siphoned off its wealth to their rural constituencies. |
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| I ask that funds should be seen as being entrusted to our care and that they should not, en route to their recipients, be wasted or siphoned off by fraudsters. |
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| Lebanese Army patrols and the Spanish unit operating within UNIFIL attended, siphoned off the water and transported it elsewhere by means of tankers. |
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| It should be placed at a depth below the lowest water level so that outside air cannot be siphoned in, and kept away from the walls and the bottom of the well. |
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| On the issue of building capacity, history shows successive efforts that produce new capacity that is then rapidly siphoned off into other projects or functions through promotion or transfer. |
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| To harvest, stop the aeration and after a few minutes the nauplii will gather at the bottom of the container and can be siphoned off, while the empty shells float at the surface. |
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| Instead of helping to rebuild Managua, Somoza siphoned off relief money. |
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| Lorry drivers siphoned off scarce petrol to barter for food with farmers. |
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| Some RNA molecules siphoned from the host plant remain stable in dodder, traveling several centimeters within the parasite, researchers report in an upcoming New Phytologist. |
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| Funds were siphoned from the schools to build a new stadium. |
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| She illegally siphoned money out of other people's bank accounts. |
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