Sentence examples for sapping strength from inspiring English sources

"Business investment has picked up nicely in the US, but UK companies remain extremely risk averse, which is sapping strength from the economy," Spencer said.

WASHINGTON — The world's financiers and finance ministers have descended on the annual forum in Davos, Switzerland, at another perilous moment, with the sovereign debt woes in Europe sapping strength from emerging markets and threatening global growth.

The government has shut down in no small part because of Republican opposition to the law on economic grounds: It is harming businesses and sapping strength from the economy, they argue.

It said it saw many bright spots in the American economy, including the strength of the private sector, but it criticized Washington for imposing too much austerity, too soon, and thus sapping strength from the recovery and preventing the unemployment rate from coming down faster.

The ranch soil is sandy, sapping strength from the hardiest of legs.

In conjunction with other measures, such as wide and properly angled beaches, they can sap strength from even a storm as powerful as Sandy.

The stiffness and swelling that go along with hand pain can sap strength and diminish the ability to carry out routine functions, like buttoning clothes.

WASHINGTON — Economists are warning that the looming expiration of a temporary payroll tax cut — and the possibility that Congress will not extend it — would cause families to spend less and could sap strength from a fragile recovery.

But they are harder to achieve as life calcifies, infirmity saps strength, and outrageous fortune batters and sometimes embitters our souls.

She fought on even while outside obstacles were sapping her strength -- the precious strength that could have been stored to possibly resist some of the disease.

Northampton are experts at sapping opponents' strength.