Example sentences for: funneled

How can you use “funneled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This assistance was funneled through Pakistan: the Pakistani military intelligence service (Inter- Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISID), helped train the rebels and distribute the arms.

  • The New York Times reported that this decision overrode State's wishes and benefited, among others, the Chinese government official who subsequently funneled large contributions to the Democratic Party.

  • Best leaks over the weekend: 1) Documents indicate that John Huang's real-estate holding company funneled Indonesian money into U.S. campaigns ( Washington Post ); 2) Clinton personally lobbied the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman to hire Huang in 1995 ( New York Times ). Pundits wistfully alluded to the 25 th anniversary of Watergate and regretted that the current scandal doesn't measure up.

  • (Steinbrenner's Republicanism runs deep: He funneled illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon in the early '70s, winning himself a two-year suspension from baseball in the process.)

  • An American-led anti-fraud group--part of a civilian bureau set up by the Dayton peace accords--says that most of the $1 billion in stolen aid was funneled to the three nationalist parties that govern the partitioned state of Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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