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"skim off" Definitions
  1. to take for yourself the best part of something, often in an unfair way
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57 Sentences With "skim off"

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Skim off any scum that rises to the surface and discard.
Continue agitating it and skim off the liquid, and you will make butter.
Skim off any scum that may have risen to the top and discard.
Military checkpoints on the border with Colombia already skim off cash from smuggling networks.
That enables these dealers to lie about prices, overcharge clients and skim off the top.
Of course, baggage fees are not just an additional charge that airlines skim off the top.
However, our hero ducks it absolutely perfectly and allows it to just skim off his back.
After straining, skim off the fat that accumulates at the top of the liquid and discard. 4.
Add stock, and bring to a simmer, and cook, keeping a low rolling boil, 45 minutes; skim off fat.
A frequent criticism of charters is that they skim off the best students, but that's not the case in Boston.
One worker tends the boiler and stuffs plastic into the fire while others steam the soybeans and skim off the pulp.
I found it helpful to skim off some of the foam that floats to the top of the pot as it boils. 
I tried to skim off the top so I wouldn't get any of the cereal that was touching the dirt on the bottom.
Of course, there is no middle man to skim off drivers profits, and no one is checking anyone's background on the unregulated networks.
A content company can focus on making content so that a technology partnership can skim off the top of the remnants of remnant advertisements.
Allegations include extortion, the trafficking of women and girls, and the systematic inflation of refugee numbers, to skim off aid money for non-existent beneficiaries.
Nigeria's oil business is a labyrinth of patronage and corruption, where politicians skim off profits and cartels steal hundreds of millions of barrels every year.
Add in a tax on dividends and a recently imposed charge on recipients and, all told, the government could skim off 1990% of corporate profits.
Not only do employer-based plans skim off the healthy cream of the healthcare market, they contribute other inefficiencies that are a drain on the economy.
The main problem with, say, the main food aid program is that officials and intermediaries appear to misreport official disbursements and skim off some of the aid.
And unlike fugitive wild foods, grain creates a relatively consistent surplus, allowing a ruling class to skim off peasant laborers' production through a tax regime of manageable complexity.
Vacu Vin Home Bar Beer Station, $29.95The affordable station includes a beer blade to skim off excess foam and a draining tray that helps keep the counter dry. 
Local officials commonly skim off a substantial percentage of the fee paid to private contractors working on public-service projects, such as water supply, electricity, and sewage treatment.
Some insurers, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, oppose association health plans, saying they would skim off healthier consumers and leave traditional insurers with sicker, more expensive customers.
Skim off 5 percent of "J'ai Pris Mon Père sur Mes Épaules," however, and you are left with a searingly good play, which treats its working-class characters with rare dignity.
Amazon's arrival in Arlington is expected to bump up hotel bookings and lead to a boost in hotel revenue, which the county would then skim off the top to give to Amazon.
"They don't want to take Fox News and offer it directly to consumers; they want to see if they can skim off the top some incremental dollars from cord-cutters," Mr. Greenfield said.
As I wrote several years ago, this amounts to the kind of proposition expected from gangsters: Hand me your money, watch me skim off some of it and you get what's left later.
The listing fee is now a "donation" but if they aren't a tax exempt organization (charity) then they can and will skim off the top of the donation and no one will ever know.
Private schools or health insurers have an incentive to skim off the best-prepared students and healthiest patients, and to deny services to harder cases, creating a large pool of people that cannot profitably be served.
"First of all, you want to use a fork then you want to take off just a little bit off the top right here," he said, using a fork to skim off a piece of the cheesecake.
The amount of money Uber and Lyft skim off drivers' fares is referred to as the "take rate," and it has been a point of contention in the past as drivers have protested their pay as inadequate.
Use a fine-mesh sieve to skim off any hulls or chaff from the surface of the water, being careful not to disturb the water too much so that none of the bits sink back into the grits.
Clue(s) of the Day for me were "Worker who may skim off the top?" for POOL BOY, "Blue state?" for WOE, "Passing remark?" for NAH and "King's little cousin" for TWIN, which took me forever to figure out.
There is no doubt that conservatives like Ryan will skim off the top of the data to hammer the idea that government programs have failed to significantly dent the poverty rate, despite the "trillions" spent over the last 50 years.
In the IPCCs October "1.5 Degree Report," scientists from around the world said that carbon recapture is necessary, but it should only be expected to skim off a small amount of excess emissions in a scenario where carbon emissions are barely above zero.
The minister, Aivaras Abromavicius, a Lithuanian and one of the foreign technocrats appointed to root out corruption, said that a businessman, Ihor Kononenko, had lobbied to have his loyalists appointed managers of a government-owned ammonia fertilizer company to skim off the profits.
With the track record of startups in creating jobs, we should start thinking of new ways to encourage this type of investment, which winds up creating a lot more revenue for Uncle Sam, rather than figuring out new ways to skim off the top.
Line the stewpan with the bacon, put in the cabbage, carrots, and onions; moisten with skimmings from the stock, and simmer very gently, till the cabbage is tender; add the stock, stew softly for half an hour, and carefully skim off every particle of fat.
All along the fertile interstate-highway corridor, our corporations, those new and powerful nation-states, had set up shop parasitically, so as to skim off the drive-past money, and what those outposts had to offer was a blur of sugar, bright color, and crassness that seemed causally related to more serious addictions.
His conduct calls to mind the testimony of another secretary of state, George P. Shultz, in the aftermath of the Iran-contra imbroglio — the disastrous decision by the Reagan administration to sell overpriced weapons to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, skim off the proceeds, and slip millions to rebel cadres in Central America after Congress had cut off its support.
In a country where many poor people lacked any form of ID, like a birth certificate or a driver's license, this has been a revolution, because they can now open a bank account and get government aid sent directly to them — rather than having bureaucrats, bankers or postal workers skim off 30 percent each year through the mail — and then link their bank account to their mobile phones, from which they can buy, sell, transfer money and receive payments digitally anytime anywhere.
Boil the butter, and add to it a small quantity of sugar and salt, and skim off floatage.
In a further blurring of the distinction between ADC guerrillas and Lao regulars, the RLA began to skim off promising militia men to beef up Royalist units.Conboy, Morrison, pp. 131, 138.
Soak the ham in four cups of water for about three hours to dissolve some of the salt. Discard the water. Par-boil both the smoked ham and the fresh ham shank in a stockpot with five cups of water on medium heat. Skim off any scum forming on top of the liquid.
In 1981 he fended off a takeover attempt by LTV, which was lauded by the company's workforce but initially criticized by some of the company's stockholders. In fact, LTV, a high-flying conglomerate had a largely underfunded pension plan. Grumman's was overfunded. LTV sought to solve its pension problem and planned to skim off the excess.
Today harvested eulachon are typically stored frozen and thawed as needed. They may also be dried, smoked, or canned. Eulachon were also processed for their rich oil. The usual process was to allow the fish to decompose for a week or more in a pit in the ground, then add boiling water and skim off the oil, which would rise to the surface.
These power blocs are typically referred to as "coalitions". Unlike formally established alliances, coalitions are similar in nature to Japanese keiretsu an informal 'business arrangement' in which several corporations band together to provide mutual financial, military and/or industrial support. Corporations take up numerous business models such as mining, manufacturing or "ratting" (hunting NPC pirates for their bounties and loot). Corporations can levy income taxes on their members, which skim off a percentage of every member's earnings.
In early 1964, Sihanouk signed a secret agreement with North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, allowing Chinese military aid meant for them to be delivered through Sihanoukville's port. In turn, the Cambodian army would be paid for delivering food supplies to the Viet Cong, and at the same time skim off 10percent of all military hardware supplies.Chandler (1991), p. 140. In addition, he also allowed the Viet Cong to build a trail through eastern Cambodia, so that their troops could receive war supplies from North Vietnam.
The exact amount differs with each bag. The spices, often wrapped in cheesecloth or a soaking bag to prevent them from floating all over the pot, usually contain cloves, star anise, coriander seed, fennel, cinnamon, black cardamom, ginger, and onion. Careful cooks often roast ginger and onion over an open fire for about a minute before adding them to the stock, to bring out their full flavor. They also skim off all the impurities that float to the top while cooking; this is the key to a clear broth.
The song was sung to the tune of the Stephen Foster song "Hard Times Come Again No More", and featured lyrics describing the hardtack rations as being 'old and very wormy' and causing many 'stomachs sore'. Some of this hardtack had been stored from the 1846–48 Mexican–American War. With insect infestation common in improperly stored provisions, soldiers would break up the hardtack and drop it into their morning coffee. This would not only soften the hardtack but the insects, mostly weevil larvae, would float to the top, and the soldiers could skim off the insects and resume consumption.
In 1993, Stew Leonard, Sr. was convicted of having committed tax fraud via an elaborate scheme to divert more than $17.1 million in cash register receipts over a 10-year period. The fraud, which involved a computer program designed to skim off sales, was directed by Stew Leonard, Sr., in concert with the company's CFO and store manager. Skimmed cash was placed in bundles in Leonard, Sr.'s office fireplace, to be later moved offshore or disguised as gifts. Leonard, Sr. was caught in June 1991 carrying $80,000 cash en route to the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.
While they wait, Bob tells a story about Marv when he was a loan shark and how he used to skim off the Chechens. Bob once killed a customer who had hit a huge casino jackpot, using the money to replace Marv's thefts from the Chechens, and Bob disposed of the body in his heating oil tank with lye and laundry detergent. He reveals to Deeds and Nadia that the victim was Richie Whelan, whom Deeds has always taken credit for killing. Bob then draws his gun and shoots Deeds in the neck and then in the face at point-blank range.
A 30-ton plant and oil refinery will show a profit over and above all operating and capital costs and the products will sell at attractive prices for equivalent products. The private sector should require no subsidies, but not in competition with those who skim off the oil from coal and sell the residual smokeless fuel to power plants. The cheapest liquid fuel from coal will come when processed by LTC for both liquid fuels and electric power. As a tertiary product of the coal distilling process, electrical energy can be generated at a minimum equipment cost.
In order to prepare a natural jus, the cook may simply skim off the fat from the juices left after cooking and bring the remaining meat stock and water to a boil. Jus can be frozen for six months or longer, but the flavor may suffer after this time.Labensky and Hause (1999), On Cooking, Prentice-Hall In American recipes au jus often use soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, white or brown sugar, garlic, beets, carrots, onions, or other ingredients to make something more like a gravy. The American jus is sometimes prepared separately, rather than being produced naturally by the food being cooked.
Now to complete the calculation, this must be applied to each of the four sums in turn. Once this is done, the four summations are put back into the sum to : : 4 \Sigma_1 - 2 \Sigma_2 - \Sigma_3 - \Sigma_4. Since only the fractional part is accurate, extracting the wanted digit requires that one removes the integer part of the final sum and multiplies by 16 to "skim off" the hexadecimal digit at this position (in theory, the next few digits up to the accuracy of the calculations used would also be accurate). This process is similar to performing long multiplication, but only having to perform the summation of some middle columns.
Pope first identified the influence of Italian poets Petrarch and Marino on Crashaw, which he criticised as yielding thoughts "oftentimes far fetch'd and strain'd", but that one could "skim off the froth" to get to Crashaw's "own natural middle-way". However, contemporary critics were quick to point out that Pope owed Crashaw a debt and in several instances, plagiarised from him.Henry Headley, Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1787); Robert Anderson, "The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw", A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain (Edinburgh: Mundell and Sons, 1793), 4:699-754. In 1785 Peregrine Philips disparaged those who borrowed from and imitated Crashaw without giving proper acknowledgement—singling out Pope, Milton, Young, and Gray—saying that they "dress themselves in his borrowed robes"Peregrine Philips (editor), Poetry by Richard Crashaw, with Some Account of the Author, and an Introductory Address to the Reader (London: Printed by Rickaby for the Editor, 1785) Early 20th- century literary critic Austin Warren identified that Pope's The Rape of the Lock borrowed heavily from Crashaw's style and translation of Sospetto d'Herode.Austin Warren, "The Reputation of Crashaw in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Studies in Philology, 31 (1934): 396, at 403.

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