"Business investment has picked up nicely in the US, but UK companies remain extremely risk averse, which is sapping strength from the economy," Spencer said.
WASHINGTON — Economists are warning that the looming expiration of a temporary payroll tax cut — and the possibility that Congress will not extend it — would cause families to spend less and could sap strength from a fragile recovery.
WASHINGTON — The world's financiers and finance ministers have descended on the annual forum in Davos, Switzerland, at another perilous moment, with the sovereign debt woes in Europe sapping strength from emerging markets and threatening global growth.
The government has shut down in no small part because of Republican opposition to the law on economic grounds: It is harming businesses and sapping strength from the economy, they argue.
It is probably akin to the Sanskrit urja, "sap, strength," according to Merriam-Webster, which defines the noun as "an explosive discharge of neuromuscular tensions at the height of sexual arousal that is usually accompanied by the ejaculation of semen in the male and by vaginal contractions in the female".
It said it saw many bright spots in the American economy, including the strength of the private sector, but it criticized Washington for imposing too much austerity, too soon, and thus sapping strength from the recovery and preventing the unemployment rate from coming down faster.
The ranch soil is sandy, sapping strength from the hardiest of legs.
But they are harder to achieve as life calcifies, infirmity saps strength, and outrageous fortune batters and sometimes embitters our souls.
Mysterious currents sapped her strength.
Always giving 100 per cent simply sapped your strength.
