Sentence examples for sapping energy from inspiring English sources

Officials in Geneva worry that these are sapping energy from the Doha round.

But it was also a year of nearly constant fits and starts by the C.P.S. system, sapping energy from teachers, administrators and students.

The department store resurfaced a few blocks away, but the sprawling limestone structure that it had occupied sat empty for years, sapping energy from the retail corridor.

He said he hoped Mr. Cunningham would step aside to avoid sapping energy that would be better spent targeting the Republican candidate, Edward Romaine, the county clerk.

Perhaps only now are we seeing the full cost of the Blair-Brown war, sapping energy, ingenuity, concentration and imagination that was badly needed for running the country.

But Mr. Obama told House leaders who favor it that an inquiry would be an unwise, backward-looking distraction, sapping energy and public attention away from tackling the nation's more pressing problems.

Mortgages and children and budgets sapped energy.

Spain like to sap energy before resolve.

It took three years of severe weight loss and sapped energy before she recuperated completely.

JW Many football managers take a dim view of players having sex before matches, claiming that it saps energy.

Four and a half years on, a crackdown on demonstrations and the jailing of many 2011 leaders has sapped energy from the protest movement.