Sentences with phrase «syphons off»

Robbie's move bumps two - time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) out of the top 5 as well as syphons off votes from Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) and Kate Winslet (Wonder Wheel), both of whom fall in position and points.

If it sold 1 million citizenships over the next three years at this price, it would be able to pay off all its debts, bail out its banks properly, allow politicians and tycoons to syphon off $ 100 billion for personal gain, and still have some cash left to buy some German tanks and frigates.

The problems were caused by corruption, inefficiencies and syphoning off of huge amounts of money by people at the top of government.

As frustration has grown, Niger delta leaders have threatened to quit the talks, a new militant group announced it will attack pipelines and oil thieves are syphoning off crude in sabotage that is dragging down production, albeit not as dramatically as bombings.

As many of these groupings have drawn up transport plans calling for increased spending on roads, there is a very real risk that the limited money which was available for green transport will now syphoned off for more roads.

The artificial pump is able to syphon off some of the energy that changes hands during a chemical reaction and uses it to push the rings together.»

Blaming the failure of teachers on policies that allow charter schools to syphon off resources that they need to be better teachers was met with the response by DeVos that «traditional public schools and charter schools should be thought of as parts of the same public school system,» an accurate and valid response!

Charters syphon off funding and hurt existing schools.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

after, according to korman's former employees, he syphoned off all the cash he could, did not pay his own employees or honour his debts to stormhoek south africa.

The climate engineers syphon off and scatter much of the initial moisture from the incoming storms.

Haven't you heard of families where relatives have fraudulently syphoned off all the insurance money received by the wife after her husband's death?

Most senior citizens have limited funds which can get syphoned off after a few hospitalizations.

Not exact matches

The Syphon Filter series was once a staple for the Sony Playstation brand, but eventually fell off the wagon.

Announcement of Days Gone follows 12 years of handheld Syphon Filter, Resistance and Uncharted spin - offs

The PS4 exclusive is Bend's first console game since 2004's Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, although its subsequent PSP spin - offs of the series, Dark Mirror and Logan's Shadow, were ported to PS2 in 2007.