But after decades of such small victories, Boston said, having failed to remake public schools as "little fundamentalist academies", those extremist factions are now more interested in siphoning students into private Christian schools.
His 2009 amnesty programme ostensibly pacified rebels whose siphoning of oil pipelines – alongside kidnappings and bombings – sometimes slashed output to less than a quarter of the 2m barrels per day pumped in Africa's largest oil producer.
Energy giant British Gas is siphoning off millions of pounds of extra profits annually by keeping hold of money owed to former customers who have built up credit on their accounts.
They can rent all the crimeware services they need to infiltrate a target's computer network invisibly, and remain undetected for months or years while siphoning off secrets for sale.
Critics accuse Mr Gayoom of nepotism and of siphoning off profits from tourism.
Shell and other big investors in the oil sands hope to meet such requirements by siphoning off emissions from their mines and storing them underground although the technology to do so is still in its infancy.
Despite both sides claiming that certain understandings have been reached, there are still complaints in Tokyo that China is siphoning off Japanese gas.Security issues are another area of tension.
First, to shut down the threat from UKIP, the anti-European party which is currently siphoning votes from disgruntled right-wing Tories.
(Mrs Zia stands accused of corruption, for siphoning cash from charitable trusts set up in the memory of her late husband, Ziaur Rahman the president of Bangladesh when he was assassinated in 1981).
In a rare interview the following day, Mr Sirleaf, a 53-year-old former investment banker, addressed claims of nepotism and accusations that he was siphoning government funds from the oil sector, an oft-repeated though never substantiated allegation.
The problem is exacerbated by the number of prisoners who are inside too briefly for anything helpful to happen to them but long enough to lose their homes and jobs.After some hearty talk about hard work behind bars, and siphoning off drug addicts and the mentally ill for treatment outside prison, Mr Clarke gets to the nub of it.
