Sentence examples for sapping effect from inspiring English sources

Injuries have had a sapping effect.

In a time of war, complexity is suspected of a sapping effect, and so a mental curfew is imposed.

But the game has largely disappeared because of policing and the sapping effect of so much news media coverage that reveals the game's secrets.

They couldn't get anything going in the first-half, but running the ball directly at the best defensive line in football had a sapping effect on the Rams pass-rush.

Indeed the weakness of oil in the 1980s (and the sapping effect of the Afghan conflict on morale) played its part in the downfall of the Soviet empire; this time round, the Russian economy is already showing signs of crisis.

Ten minutes into the second half there was still no sign of the Burkinabe shaking off their lethargy, which may have been a result of the sapping effect of their penalty shoot-out win over Ghana in the semi-final.

Eventually we free up energy from all the conflict and power sapping effects of the inner struggle.

To obtain that voltage, thermoelectrics must be good electrical conductors but poor conductors of heat, which saps the effect.

For the last decade or so he's been gamely homogenizing the great American songbook, his voice a human computer effect, sapping pop-music history of its passion, its sweat, its ache.

Yet the book did have a soul-sapping effect on unsuspecting Christians.

Studded grippers over my trainers gave some extra purchase but couldn't combat the energy-sapping effect of the snow.