But given the low public trust in nuclear power, each operation is likely to prove an energy-sapping battle, requiring local consensus.Dispiritingly for reformists in the government, Mr Abe made little mention of his reform priorities during the campaign.
SAP, which battles with Oracle in enterprise software, will be expanding its cloud-based services with the acquisition, which is being done through its American subsidiary.
On Wednesday, he was unusually subdued, his spirit sapped by the battle for his career.
But he says it was the culmination of a soul-sapping and ultimately unsuccessful battle with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on how to accommodate the rising cost of the James Webb Space Telescope within an overall agency budget being squeezed by efforts to reduce federal spending and shrink the deficit.
But the dreadful reality of these battle scenes is considerably sapped by Ray's bizarre, presumably semi-delirious behavior, involving total nudity and his brother's bulky manuscript duct-taped to his body like a suicide bomb.
Oracle, which acquired PeopleSoft in December after a lengthy takeover battle, is now threatening SAP's dominance of the business applications software market.
Why winning legislative battles builds momentum but saps political capital, I have no idea.
In each of those three campaigns, the primary battle divided the party, sapped the incumbent's popularity — and helped the other party's nominee win the general election in November.
A booming economy, they complain, has sapped the government's will to do battle on their behalf against increasingly powerful interest groups which see no need for change.
CARLA OVERBECK, the captain and one of the defensive stalwarts of the United States women's national team, is battling an invisible opponent that saps her strength but has not drained her resolve.
