He says he wants to focus on his game for a while instead of draining himself in meetings and debate.
Ali had avoided draining himself too severely in this early period, especially in the sixth and eighth, by filling in time with some highly calculated comedy.
Maybe the real problem is this... the video, which at 1 09 12 clearly shows the young man draining himself into water that now will all be drained.
According to a report from Billboard, Morozov drained himself of 4.5 liters of blood and diluted his blood with distilled water, glucose, sodium citrate and other substances to power the instrument.
But he checked himself, drained his glass, got up, and paced the room.
By recommending that they take their grievances to the courts, Mr. Karzai has offered them hope without promising to deliver it himself, draining off some of the anger and buying time to figure out what to do.
As Mr. Cao has struggled to recover over the past year, he has found himself drained by a different sort of battle: trying to wrest compensation from the Ministry of Railways, an unbending government behemoth unaccustomed to dealing with determined foreign citizens.
Helpful Mr Higginson, a supporter of women, who thought he was corresponding with an apologetic, self-effacing spinster, was puzzled to find himself "drained" of "nerve-power" after his first visit to her in 1870.
Thereafter, the fight seemed to drain from Youzhny, who had looked far more himself in beating Stanislas Wawrinka in the quarter-finals.
And now he's got a 20-footer for birdie at the last; if he can drain that, he'll be feeling a whole lot better about himself.
