Sentence examples for sapping optimism from inspiring English sources
Emerging markets have been re-rated, thanks to broadly more investor-friendly economic policies and booming commodity prices.In America, by contrast, several worries are sapping optimism about economic prospects.
That was the latest in a string of setbacks for the campaign that appears to be sapping the optimism of some of his supporters.
The Lehman-led slide in financial stocks sapped the optimism created by the weekend's bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and exchange-traded funds designed to track the sector were flailing.
But John Roberts and Samuel Alito sapped John Paul Stevens's optimism.
Anthrax appeared like a vampire in the night, sapping us of our customary optimism.
Nick Kalivas, senior equity index analyst at MF Global in Chicago, said some of the optimism in the financial sector was sapped by the Fed proposal.
Headiness sapped his sincerity.
Alcoholic binges sapped de Kooning.
That saps the enthusiasm somewhat.
