Skimmed

These funds where skimmed from the every years budget for all years Griffin was Administrator. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My feeling is he wanted to pay for the state's budget so something can be skimmed from the top. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here is the challenge, let's see how much money has been wasted over the years in downtown Aurora and how much has been skimmed from the rest of the city into TIF projects that would really never pass TIF criteria! ❋ Unknown (2009)

His managers lived, rent-free, with salaries commensurate to ability, in five — ­and ten-thousand-dollar houses — ­but they were the cream of specialists skimmed from the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the fin skimmed past Bowman, we saw this shark was longer than the kayak. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Sir Nutcombe's reply was, Yes, a good deal of the cream has already been skimmed from the milk jug. ❋ Unknown (1960)

“After years of tap water, I’d finally had enough of drinking water that tasted like it had been skimmed from the pool of the local YMCA.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

We were treated with coffee, and milk, sour milk (or leben), but not skimmed, which is considered a great luxury, and only presented to strangers of consequence. ❋ James Richardson (1828)

I usually 'fess up at some point that I technically "skimmed" the book, but details like that don't seem to bother teenagers. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

Drinking whole fat milk and eating ice cream appears to be better for women trying to become pregnant than a diet consisting of low-fat dairy products such as skimmed milk and yoghurt, according to new research published in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal, Human Reproduction. ❋ Steve Carper (2008)

Obama is talking about an implicit corruption tax that is "skimmed" and goes to public officials wallets, not tax dollars collected for the public budget. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I kind of skimmed through the rest of the comments, and want to say this: there's a big difference between a comment that "dissents" and a comment that attacks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As Liz points out, the fact that Mr. Ecker acknowledges that he has only "skimmed" the book is true too often of those who censor. ❋ Roger Sutton (2005)

It's hard to imagine just how much sensitive information can be "skimmed" at airports, shopping malls, grocery stores, sporting events, universities, etc. without anyone being the wiser. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I've now "skimmed" a badly-distorted post of HOSTEL, and find it about as stupid and bankrupt as I suspected it was. ❋ Bill Crider (2006)

I kind of skimmed the last however many posts, but I thought that the best idea would be to start a series where you don't need to see every episode to build the characters. ❋ Rogers (2005)

The State Department is also adding technical features to prevent the radio-frequency identification devices, or RFID chips, in new passports from being 'skimmed' by unauthorized readers, according to Frank Moss, the deputy assistant secretary for passport services at the State Department. ❋ Jim Horning (2005)