Sentence examples for leech away from inspiring English sources

Military men, spies and politicians leech away state resources.

Labor brokers that leech away months of a worker's hard-earned wages.

To large numbers of people, the world is a snake's lair lion's den hornet's nest of imminent suffering, a million poisonous tentacles aching to attach themselves to your exposed soft tissue and leech away your money and your life force and your fetish porn collection.

It can be leeched away by constructive policies, by greater understanding between communities and simply by the passage of time.

He thinks the CAP, despite "leeching away the entrepreneurship of farming", has worked, but that successive reforms have been watered down or come too late.

These images uniformly mark the leeching away of hope: I set out for the Arkay for the first time at 8 a.m. on 31st July.

In 2003, US efforts to marginalise Yasser Arafat by leeching away his presidential powers into the embrace of the prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, collapsed.

The army's once-unchallenged authority has leeched away to a set of rambunctious broadcast media, an activist supreme court and civilian politicians who this year successfully transferred power from one elected government to another a first for Pakistan.

That wish is fulfilled by the Nobodaddy, a doppelgänger of Luka's father who is sapping his energy and, in turn, leeching away the possibility of myth and enchantment.

Rivulets cut through the forest trail; the hikers balanced along small bamboo bridges; in vain, they soaked their legs with tobacco juice and even wore nylon stockings to keep the leeches away.

Everyone was asssessed in detail over the course of a month from the start of treatment, and more generally over the course of three.In this section Thanks for no memory Leeching away pain Bursting with controversy Perishing publishing ReprintsThe result was that leech therapy beat diclofenac for pain relief, particularly in the first week after application.