"This is a very agonizing, emotional, draining effort".
(Strange, just what a draining effort of tact was required to get through the day without bad-mouthing another poet).
Dia has been without a New York City exhibition space since 2004, when it closed its building in Chelsea after the draining effort of creating Dia:Beacon, the vast upstate outpost that it opened in 2003.
Before heading to catch a late-night plane on the way to the Cincinnati Masters, where he is due to play this week before the US Open in a fortnight, he spoke of the draining effort of the match and the pride he took in creating tennis history.
Though they invariably overstate their case, their opposition would make a windfall tax a heavy lift politically, thereby draining effort from other, more direct, solutions, like better mileage standards and ultimately — the hardest sell of all — a bolstered federal gas tax to encourage conservation.
Mark Funkhouser, Kansas City's mayor, is a vocal critic of what he calls "this recent jobs poaching expedition," complaining that the efforts drain time and money that could be spent on services like education and infrastructure that should be used to attract residents and businesses from outside the region.
Near the end of seven months of intensive effort, in late September 1885, he wrote Balakirev, "Never in my life, believe me, have I labored so long and hard, and felt so drained by my efforts.
11.21pm BST Mickelson, from the back of the green at 12, nearly drains a spectacular birdie effort.
The Polissya contains the southernmost portions of the Pripet Marshes, and Ukraine has undertaken major efforts to drain these swamplands and reclaim the land for agriculture.
Such efforts could drain the life from a marriage, but the Kievs say they have grown to appreciate each other even more.
