Sentence examples for sapping confidence from inspiring English sources

"The crisis will just drag on and on, sapping confidence".

Prices will probably fall again this year, sapping confidence and preventing people from moving to find work.

What has been sapping confidence, apart from Mr Cavallo's public rows with Mr Pou and his attacks on market "speculators", is a lack of detail about where he will make the spending cuts he promised.

With the markets taking fright at budget deficits in Greece, Portugal and Spain, and sapping confidence in Europe's single currency, the need for strong leadership within the 27-member European Union has rarely been greater.

Procrastination saps confidence in the euro.

There are no jobs and recession has sapped confidence.

The euro crisis and the BP oil spill sapped confidence.

In 1989 she told the Guardian: "[We] are overwhelmed by experts who sap confidence.

The UK uncertainties are real, but nobody saps confidence like the eurozone.

Two scandals involving local banks whose managements had lent millions of dollars in unsecured loans have sapped confidence.

Attempts to micromanage the rate of return on private investments in roads and airports have further sapped confidence.