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  • verb UK Alternative spelling of funnelling.

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Examples

  • Last summer, Bullock and the Arizona attorney general, joined by 24 of their counterparts from other states, filed a friend-of-court brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold current laws and precedents that strictly limit what he called the funneling of corporate dollars into campaigns.

    billingsgazette.com 2010

  • The elites I constantly refer to I identify as those who have an interest in funneling money to the extremely wealthy and to corporate America at the expense of everyone else.

    Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree 2010

  • The elites I constantly refer to I identify as those who have an interest in funneling money to the extremely wealthy and to corporate America at the expense of everyone else, you included, Thor.

    Think Progress » Health Insurers’ Duplicitous Campaign Confirmed: Industry Covertly Gave Millions To Fund Anti-Reform Ads 2010

  • So the idea of funneling large amounts of money into the present system so that fast trains can reach every door in America whether or not anyone would actually like to ride them seems, well, a bit dubious.

    ComPost | Joe Biden: 'They're gonna own our kids' without high-speed rail Alexandra Petri 2011

  • So the idea of funneling large amounts of money into the present system so that fast trains can reach every door in America whether or not anyone would actually like to ride them seems, well, a bit dubious.

    Joe Biden: 'They're gonna own our kids' without high-speed rail Alexandra Petri 2011

  • It seems to me that the present course of action -- namely funneling more and more money to corrupt lenders and wasteful industries, and exacting punitive sanctions on individuals and families who have been working and struggling to make do -- is really the one that represents a radical departure from the concept of fairness (and even celebration) that history counsels.

    Randall Amster: Time to Forgive, Forget, and Find a Little Jubilee 2009

  • But out on the midway last week, younger voters -- moms and dads with children on their shoulders or in strollers -- were cautiously open to the idea of funneling some payroll-tax money into private savings accounts.

    Anxious In Sioux Falls 2007

  • Half of those fees will go directly to big record labels funneling billions of dollars to companies overseas.

    unknown title 2009

  • Neel Kashkari, the interim head of the $700 billion bailout program, was cool to the idea of funneling the money to companies beyond banks and AIG.

    SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines 2008

  • Neel Kashkari, the interim head of the $700 billion bailout program, was cool to the idea of funneling the money to companies beyond banks and AIG.

    seMissourian.com Headlines 2008

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