Allegedly, the party used its control of the ministry to provide a funding stream, charging kickbacks to offer contracts or funneling them towards affiliated businesses and NGOs in what the local press has christened the esporteduto, or "sports pipeline".
Mr Luzhkov ran the city as his own kingdom for 18 years, tearing down old buildings and throwing up new, much maligned ones, while allegedly funneling construction contracts to his billionaire wife.In his first year, Mr Sobyanin cancelled $35 billion of construction projects approved by Mr Luzhkov.
They contend such groups are circumventing campaign finance laws and funneling soft money into the federal elections.
Martin's administration struggled to maintain power, the struggle made more difficult by a political crisis generated by an ongoing inquiry into a sponsorship scheme in Quebec that allegedly involved the Liberals funneling money to advertising firms associated with the party for little or no work while Martin was finance minister.
Streams debouching from the Rockies have spread sands, occasionally whipped up into sand hills, well beyond their banks; those funneling into the Mississippi River have created a vast plain that is known as the Mississippi delta.
New Jersey's transportation system is one of the busiest and most extensive in the world, and it weaves the state into the fabric of the region by funneling goods and people to New York City and other points north and to Philadelphia and points south.
In March Norway accused its largest parastatal, Statoil, of funneling large sums of money to Angolan politicians and Sonangol executives.
With Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government shaken by a scandal, Layton was able to negotiate amendments to the 2005 budget, funneling $4.6 billion to finance social programs.
Mountains can have other effects on the wind climate; valleys can increase wind speeds by "funneling" regional flows and may generate mesoscale mountain- and valley-wind circulations as well.
And you can imagine my horror on August 14, 2003, the day of the Great Northeast Blackout (as Wikipedia calls it), when all those thousands of scared, sweaty, and thirsty people exiting Lower Manhattan came funneling across the Brooklyn Bridge, down that desolate stretch of Boerum Place and Atlantic Avenue, and the first convenience store they got to after walking all those miles was ours.
Or are there other motives for funneling so many kids into this pre-professional structure?
