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Перевод: siphoning

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1. Surely the Minister - and all the other Ministers and other Tory Members - know that the CTCs are really private schools, siphoning off millions of pounds of public money.
2. Siphoning money abroad in this way is a typical case to which the new legislation must have been intended to apply.
3. He had, over many weeks, been siphoning petrol from a garage owner's tank and lorries; and the owner had, on this particular weekend, diluted the tank with water.
4. Concern that this uncontrolled expansion of the private sector had been siphoning off funds that might have been more cost effectively used in home based community care led to the government commissioning reviews of resource management and quality of care.
5. Although Koor's policy of siphoning money from its successful subsidiaries to loss-makers is certainly generous, I cannot agree that it is "hairbrained".
6. For many Arab people, their ambivalence about supporting Saddam Hussein is secondary to their desperate need to rid themselves of a system imposed by outside forces; a system that enables a small ruling Arab elite to plunder the region's resources, siphoning off cheap oil to the West, while millions of Arabs live in dire poverty, struggling to survive the economic blows dealt to the Arab nation by the West.
7. Alcoholism, pollution (through misuse of pesticides and careless dumping of waste); shortages of proteins and dairy products (diluted milk, denatured baby formula); the siphoning off of drugs and anaesthetics into the illegal second economy all take their toll.
8. Perhaps it was in the hope of siphoning off this water that she put the beautiful white Ted-decorated house on the market as soon as it was finished.
9. The costs of permanent military presence would be paid by Germany, Japan and oil-rich Arab allies, thus siphoning off excess savings to finance the permanent, long-term external deficits which are likely to be experienced by the US and Britain.
10. They did their work to the accompaniment of siphoning and sucking noises.
11. At the national level, women's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties, which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest
12. After a protracted investigation - ranging from Mr Hunt's improper use of state aircraft for preaching tours, to his handling of political finances - a jury last week found him guilty of siphoning 100,000 from an inaugural fund into his own account.
13. The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night.