Sentence examples similar to sapping resistance from inspiring English sources
Without her testimony it would have been all too easy to ignore the emotional impact of her father's death on his family and friends, because the DWP's energy-sapping resistance to openness and clarity about the true impact of the WCA process can too easily lead us to drift into a battle over numbers.
His practice of summoning cities to surrender and of organizing the methodical slaughter of those who did not submit has been described as psychological warfare; but, although it was undoubtedly policy to sap resistance by fostering terror, massacre was used for its own sake.
The energy was visibly sapping from the Bairns' legs and nearly all resistance was drained by the low Doyle drive that fired into their hearts and the back of the net from 18 yards.
He reiterated the importance of killing or capturing Mr. Hussein as a way to sap the vigor of the resistance, and curb the fear of the Iraqi people.
Exasperation with the lone superpower, combined with a sense that the Iraq debacle has sapped its will, is stiffening resistance to American policies and emboldening others to show their hands.
Headiness sapped his sincerity.
Alcoholic binges sapped de Kooning.
Now, they are being sapped.
Seizures sapped his strength.
