A slump in French manufacturing and construction sapped the strength of the eurozone economy in the second quarter, pushing the 19-member currency bloc's GDP growth rate down to 0.3% from 0.4% in the first three months of the year.
Less construction sapped demand for the Mexican's company's cement.
In the next section, we describe our database construction to illustrate how we accommodate the SAPs, PTMs, and their disease associations.
No one knows for sure how many have become homeless since the downturn brought construction projects to a virtual standstill and sapped them of jobs that once paid as much as $200 a day.
Segregation data of HCT- and HQT-SNP markers were monitored and analyzed together with those of AFLP, S-SAP, M-AFLP and SSR markers previously applied for globe artichoke maps construction [ 36].
Broken milkweed plants do not bleed sticky, milky sap, but instead are a glassy molten brown where repaired, betraying the truth of their construction.
America's most successful intelligence operations during the Cold War had been saps, including the Navy's submarine penetration of underwater cables used by the Soviet high command and construction of the Air Force's stealth bomber.
He said that demand is strongest for buildings in the central business districts of major cities where there are barriers to new construction, which helps to ensure that existing properties will not face as much income-sapping competition.
In Argentina earlier this week, for example, Mr. Hu announced nearly $20 billion in new investment in railways, oil and gas exploration, construction and communications satellites, a huge boost for a country whose economic vitality has been sapped since a financial collapse in December 2001.
God, Republicans are saps.
