Funnelling

Germany -- asked to provide the lion's share of aid -- had been cool to the idea of funnelling taxpayer funds into Opel after GM abandoned a deal with Canada's Magna that German ❋ Unknown (2010)

Countries such as Germany, Finland and the Netherlands may find it difficult to defend funnelling more cash to Athens over the coming months with the threat of the referendum looming. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The WWE has also functioned as a drug cartel, funnelling steroids to their wrestlers so they could appear ever-more Schwazerneggerian (another Republican). ❋ Cliff Schecter (2010)

Two other managerial funnels, Steve Kean and André Villas-Boas, were featured in Match of the Day, still funnelling despite victories for Blackburn and Chelsea. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's all about funnelling money to the war profiteers, it's never been about safety or security, just money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A wise and witty piece by my colleague Barney Ronay in this slot on Saturday suggested that the key role of the modern Premier League manager is to rage impotently in his technical area, funnelling the frustrations and discontent of the supporters away from the owners. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When the school bell chimed, Joe slowly joined the crowd funnelling through the school entrance, racked with envious misery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I can cycle down the hill to my office in Abergavenny in a T-shirt, with sunshine on my forearms and warm air funnelling over the creases in my face, I feel the wheel of the year has turned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In fact, it is entirely possible that McLeish, having recently managed Villa's neighbours Birmingham City, and being both red-haired and Scottish, has been hired by Randy Lerner exclusively for his funnelling capability. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The troubled asset relief programme was used to stabilise the economy in part by funnelling billions of dollars in direct capital investments into banks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Surely the most striking development of these midterms was the flood of secret cash funnelling through shadow organizations born of the Citizens United decision. ❋ Linda Keenan (2010)

It was foolish of the Obama administration to make the issue of terrorism one for negotiation: Khartoum either does or does not support terrorism, and there is considerable evidence that it still does, chiefly by funnelling Iranian weapons to Hamas. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Coalition and Afghan officials have frequently accused elements of the ISI and Pakistani security establishment of funnelling money and weapons to the Taliban and the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2010)

One highly respected, establishment figure believes that this eventually operated in a directly partisan way, that News International was, in effect, running a shadow intelligence operation, funnelling the information it gathered on the Conservatives' political enemies to that party – in return for benign treatment of its businesses. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistan became the scene of a proxy war between mostly Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, with both sides funnelling money to sectarian groups that regularly targeted each other. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Damn Reagan for funnelling money to the ISI to arm the Mujahedin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The report, by the Senate armed services committee, is critical of the operations of some of these companies, saying it uncovered "evidence of private security contractors funnelling US taxpayers 'dollars to Afghan warlords and strongmen linked to murder, kidnapping, bribery as well as Taliban and other anti-coalition activities". ❋ Ewen MacAskill In Washington (2010)

The Tea Party may look like a grassroots movement, and the antipathy to environmental protection fits well with its libertarian philosophy (if "hell no" can be considered a philosophy), but the corporations behind the movement? including BP? are funnelling big bucks to support the GOP's most outspoken climate sceptics. ❋ Thomas Noyes (2010)

This is supposed to be outrageous because ISNA was named as an “unindicted conspirator” in the U.S. prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, several founders of which were convicted of funnelling funds to Hamas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Ok guys, we gotta give this [broad] The Funnel. That nigga [Glasgow] hasn't had pussy in a [coon's age]. ❋ Zac Glasgow (2006)

Funnel this [everclear]. It's [awesome]. ❋ Steve-o (2003)

I'm a [major] [funnel] in [the bathroom] right now. ❋ WorldRenownedJolfer (2011)

see "[chuggler]" see [www].chuggler.[com] ❋ Mr. C (2005)

[Jaysus] Lisa, let us [roger] yer [funnel], will ya? ❋ Mickybee (2008)

Dude, not all [Asian girls] are into [funneling] baby [eels]. ❋ Notshok (2010)

"omg...did you [see how] [fast] she [funneled] that can of beer?" ❋ Mary (2005)

tranferring milk from a [jug] into [a bottle] for [storage] ❋ Tinman (2004)

[The funnel] its [pretty] [awsome] ❋ Funnel User (2020)

"Fresh Meet at [Skydive] [Perris] is getting bigger each year. We had a huge [funnel] last time!" "On that last load, we had a big funnel, they all had less than 100 jumps" ❋ Choupinette_17 (2022)