Sentence examples for funnelled towards from inspiring English sources

Instead, the Court has extended tax exemptions to churches as charities, and decided that it must not discriminate between religious charities and the rest; but the effect is the same, that state money is funnelled towards religious institutions.

Onagawa, in Miyagi prefecture, was hit harder than any other municipality: the water, funnelled towards the shore by the surrounding bay, was 14 metres high when it enveloped the town, killing 827 people and destroying two-thirds of the buildings.

At school he had been funnelled towards a career in medicine as a kind of smart kid default, but when he discovered coding, it was like falling in love.

The location fees, purportedly in the £100,000 range, will be funnelled towards the 15th century chapel's multimillion pound conservation project, in which the structure is to be returned to its original appearance.

Yet as well as delivering the mail, Japan's postal system is also the world's biggest bank, with ¥320 trillion $2.8 trillionn) in savings and life-insurance accounts funnelled towards favoured public-works projects and a collection of public financial bodies and their clients.

Its success allowed Mr Chandor to do exactly what he wanted with "A Most Violent Year"—wrapping a plot about a business transaction inside a story about an immigrant's struggle to live the American Dream rather than what he describes as "getting funnelled towards the seventh 'X-Men' movie"."A Most Violent Year" has much of the gangster film about it.

Cons · It is right in the middle of Jupiter's magnetic field, which means that lots of nasty radiation is funnelled directly towards the moon's surface.

People were shouting: 'Bomb, bomb!' and 'Run, run!' but there isn't anywhere to run except back to the gates that you came from, so people were funnelled back towards the planes.

Throughout the 1950s this committee funnelled money towards individuals and organisations in Europe that were bringing the fledgling European Economic Community, forerunner of today's EU, into being.Like many of the EU's own founding fathers, Americans in the 1950s thought that European integration might prevent the continent lapsing back into war.

Crowdfunding sites had funnelled cash towards lots of garage entrepreneurs who were at the show to promote their invention and, hopefully, get the bigger companies taking on or backing their work.

Motoring westward for a day of pre-game revelry known in the US as tailgating, driver and front passenger appreciated the Model S's cyborg-chic appointments, but our three-abreast rear-seaters complained that the padding on the outer edges of the back seat funnelled them together towards the middle.