Sentence examples for from a drain from inspiring English sources

Many reservists work for police and fire departments, which suffer from a drain in manpower.

"They won't come near us," said the rebel who pulled Gaddafi from a drain last Thursday.

Colonel Qaddafi was dead, after being pulled alive from a drain pipe and succumbing later to gunshot wounds.

There is a phrase that describes slum-dwellers that roughly translates into English as 'worm from a drain'.

One boy produced a jagged, soot-encrusted chunk of metal, perhaps part of an exhaust, from a drain.

The report, commissioned in November, helps to do that in unprecedented detail, showing that spending on the arts is far from a drain on public resources.

It was almost time for his big speech, and Ed Thompson sat at a table, plucking ice cubes from a drained water pitcher and popping them into his mouth.

Djokovic, who has complained that his heavy schedule in 2007 left him exhausted, recovered in less than 20 hours from a draining three-hour semifinal.

Away from the obviously manicured greenery of the Great Lawn (created from a drained reservoir in the 1930's), the Sheep Meadow and the elm-lined Mall and Literary Walk, there are places shaped by stealthy engineering.

That will see the veteran retained once Benítez leaves next month, with the Spaniard's success in coaxing a trophy from a draining season acknowledged by players, directors and even large sections of the travelling support last night.

A trial was conducted to examine the effects of retaining drain water with a weir on reducing acid flux from a drained coastal acid sulphate soil backswamp.