Cook, however, denied that Apple funnels any of its U.S. profits into offshore tax havens.
Funnels are leaky, and social media is a beast endlessly hungry for great content.
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In the early 1970s, West Germany planned to build cities shaped like funnels.
The company funnels a portion of its pretax profits to charity each year, and customers get to pick their favorites.
The system bus is a conduit that funnels data between the processor and other parts of a PC.
When the ear is attentive and working hard, it funnels clearer information to brain centers that handle memory and perception.
Step inside Tower No. 5, and you immediately feel the cool breeze that funnels up 496 feet to the sky.
Team valuations would soon go skyward thanks to the league erasing a success penalty that funnels hard earned profits to the laggards.
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Asian television funnels more income to the tour than U.S. television does.
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Foot traffic funnels east past a popular friend chicken joint, a bustling beauty shop and neighborhood teens flirting and gossiping outside a bodega.
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It funnels federal Medicare dollars to private plans that are considerably more expensive per capita (by roughly 10%, historically) than the standard Medicare fee-for-service outlays.
The United States cut off direct, nonhumanitarian aid to Gaza but more than doubled humanitarian aid it funnels through non-governmental groups and the United Nations.
Perman funnels the results of group inquiry into three convergencies.
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The company also funnels billions more to holders via buybacks.
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Naturally, the smart marketer wants to build marketing funnels which provide the cheapest, most economical transition from one stage to the next, while keeping customer loss to a minimum.
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In China, too, the state draws up long-term plans, funnels cash to industries it deems strategic and works hand-in-glove with national champions, like Huawei and Haier (see article).
In the case it has taken up, it will decide whether to let stand a federal programme which funnels computers and other aid to all schools, public, private and religious.
Google funnels tens of millions dollars to Mozilla in exchange getting for a valuable spot on the default home page of the browser preferred by the most avid Web surfers and developers.
There may still be scepticism and questions over taste, but if the distinctive four funnels of Titanic 2 steam out of Southampton Water in 2016 as planned, the world will certainly be watching.
The quickest way to figure out if you can save by booking two tickets is to figure out if there is a hub airport that funnels most American travelers to your overseas destination.
In Oklahoma, storm chasers with cameras in their cars transmitted video showing a number of funnels dropping from the supercell thunderstorm as it passed south of El Reno and into Oklahoma City just south of downtown.
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But critics have accused the firm of neglecting maintenance as it funnels oil revenue into government social programmes, especially after an explosion in August at the Amuay refinery, the country's largest, in which 42 people were killed.
Just a few days ago, the hedge fund industry won a behind-the-scenes war to kill a bill that would have plugged a loophole that funnels billions of dollars into the pockets of some of the highest-paid people in America.
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The ships, which regularly plied various routes in the North Atlantic during 2005, were kitted out by a number of European research organisations with instruments that measured the CO2 content of water taken into the engine rooms and air collected upwind of the funnels.
In the minds of gamers, Nintendo is and will always be the company that makes Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong et al. But to others, Nintendo is first and foremost the company that makes Brain Age, Wii Fit, or just funnels Netflix into their TVs.
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Although many consumer game devices eventually turn a profit, they often hit the market as a loss leader, herding gamers into a closed ecosystem and securing a revenue stream for the manufacturer -- every Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation game made funnels a small licensing fee to the owner of the platform.
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