In addition, much-needed funds were siphoned away from underfunded schools.
The state, for example, invested part of the rent it siphoned from cocoa exports in a broad array of economic projects.
However, gold and silver was siphoned o^ for other, non-monetary purposes.
The point of its draft system is to ensure that talent is not all siphoned off by a few teams, making competition between the teams lopsided.
Ultimately, given the domestic balance of trade and commercial networks, specie was siphoned off from the interior provinces and converged on the port to pay for imports.
Are these structures evidence of surpluses being siphoned off by the elites?
Water is fed by gravity from the main canals to a network of secondary and tertiary canals whence it is siphoned through plastic pipes into furrows in the individual fields.
Most of the additional motoring taxes are being siphoned off to pay for their disastrously expensive welfare policies.
