"The entire finance system of the world leaks like a sieve, " Daniels said.

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"The city centre is already leaking like a sieve and we don't want it to get any worse, " he said.

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Housing benefit, which is doled out by local authorities, has long been leaking like a sieve, but it also seems to be slowly on the mend.

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Transfer the grated zucchini to a colander or sieve set over a bowl.

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Both parties purport to focus on jobs but sift our time, energy and resources through a regulatory sieve.

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The monastery grill became one of several targets for tennis balls, but was later replaced by a small, slanting sieve.

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It becomes unwieldy to sieve through a compilation once it becomes large.

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The gut wall then changes from a protective layer to an open sieve, allowing pathogens normally contained in the gut and then excreted to enter the insect's body.

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For another, to the extent that the sieving process benefits society as a whole, there are surely cheaper ways to sieve than through universities.

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Like the typical sieve, these science news filters tend to winnow out the small but still important bits and retain a lot of the big speculations, always starting with a hyperbolic headline.

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