Sentence examples for drain away from from inspiring English sources

As trust continued to drain away from our institutions it would be harder to get things done.

Besides, Mr Khamenei's tenure has seen power steadily drain away from the clergy and towards Iran's security services, whose commanders he appoints.

He lived for 40 years with Martin Hensler, and when Martin died a little while ago, the life-force seemed to drain away from him.

If your soil is likely to get very wet, plant your raspberries on a ridge, so that the water can drain away from their roots.

If, as prime minister, he concludes that public-service reform has taken a wrong turn, why would he not want to do something about it?Power is also likely to drain away from Mr Blair long before his last reshuffle.

This book is also light on practical details, but the energy, never mind the playfulness, starts to drain away from page one, where he tells us what was in his mind before he confronted Paxo.

Overall, authority is still draining away from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and his dysfunctional government.

But, by now, some of the initial strangeness and ambiguity has drained away from the work.

Water coming from the road surface can be drained away from the embankment through the porous crushed-rock layer.

There are times when public confidence drains away from an inflexible policy when it is applied too rigidly.

Thus, overflow during major storms is discharged into streams draining away from the lake as a mixture of sanitary sewage diluted by storm water.