Charter schools, she concluded, were proving to be no better on average than regular schools, but in many cities were bleeding resources from the public system.
It appears, for example, that one of Osama bin Laden's motives in mounting the 9/11 attacks in the first place was to goad the United States into a military action in Afghanistan that would, he believed, polarise Muslim opinion against us and slowly bleed our resources.
The former army officer and police sergeant Joseph-Desire Mobutu exploited the power vacuum, seized control and bled the resources further.
The operation is so called because it was intended to provoke an overreaction, bleeding the resources of a cash-strapped nation.
First there was a Stalinist, Sékou Touré, who saw plots everywhere and killed dozens of people to stamp them out; then a military man, Lansana Conté, who bled the resource-rich country dry as his entourage enriched itself; and finally Captain Camara, who ruled until a disgruntled member of his guard shot him in the head early in December.
Much like children, they would bleed me dry of resources and hang me out to dry.
Much like children, they would bleed me dry of resources and leave me to go out on the shag.
They get that we can't bleed the world's resources for the benefit of rich countries because the resulting poverty of the rest will bring everyone down with them.
"There's already reason to believe we're already bleeding money and resources out".
"Every day we delay restructuring subsidies bleeds state resources," he said, though he declined to say when the subsidy regime would be reformed.
