Sentence examples for draining business from inspiring English sources

Running seriously for the presidential nomination of one of the two main parties is a brutal, costly, draining business.

Finn will now return to England where he will, it is to be hoped, take a break from the draining business of attempting to set right the misaligned mechanics of his bowling action.

But those hopes quickly sank as water shortages impeded growth and as chain stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart opened in towns, helping them grow but draining business from smaller communities with stores that could not compete.

Mr. Clinton's trip across the pocked dirt roads of this poverty-stricken section of Vietnam was intended as a vivid demonstration of how a new era has arrived, one in which Americans and Vietnamese work together, six days a week, finishing the muddy and emotionally draining business of accounting for 1,498 Americans still listed as missing in action here.

To some degree, the vacancies revive memories of the early 1990's, when the newly opened mall drained business and pockmarked the commercial district with empty storefronts.

In the end, though, a failure to resolve definitively Greece's position in the single currency can only drain business spirits across the continent.

But the shiny new tap rooms were bars by another name, they said, and threatened to drain business from bar owners who had paid $100,000 or more for one of the state's scarce liquor licenses.

But the adjustment has occurred much faster than most businesses anticipated, with the process likely intensified by the rise in the cost of energy that has drained business and household purchasing power.

We are paid by the college to perform the dirty work that no one else wants to do, the wrenching, draining, sorrowful business of teaching and failing the unprepared who often don't even know they are unprepared".

Some of the city's best restaurants worried for weeks that natives fleeing Boston would drain off business.

Handmade arts and crafts have formed the basis of many successful home-based businesses, but in an increasingly crowded marketplace the challenge lies in finding a gap for products that are highly unusual and niche, but won't drain the business of cash to market, or take up the entire family home to make.