Sentence examples similar to is being bled dry from inspiring English sources

The militants complained that the island was being "bled dry".

In a hospital where nurses demand payment for painkillers, children give blood: "They are being bled dry.

Its banks are being bled dry in a slow-motion run on the country's financial system.

A couple claim they are being "bled dry" by a catch-22 situation in which they have to pay for investment schemes they believe they should never have been sold – and that could now swallow their entire pension savings.

And its shaky standing on this new terrain leaves it open to criticism both for doing too much and for doing too little, too late.From the outset of the crisis the central bank has conducted a discreet slow-motion rescue of banks in ailing economies like Greece and Ireland, which were being bled dry by capital flight and became more and more reliant on liquidity from the ECB.

They're being bled dry so that banks don't have to admit they're sitting on a lot of artificially inflated assets.

It doesn't take a math whiz to see that the vast majority of us are being bled dry by an insatiably greedy few at the top.

We are not being bled dry by the rest of the world, as Trump would have us believe.

Oxfam's international executive director, Winnie Byanyima, said what was on the table currently was not enough to stop poor countries being "bled dry".

As Obama said at last week's town hall meeting on credit cards, the predatory practices of the credit industry have "only grown worse in the middle of this recession, when people can afford them least". Almost a year is too long to wait when people are struggling -- and being bled dry.

Identifying and communicating yours will prevent you from being bled dry by others.