Sentence examples for saps interest from inspiring English sources

The terminators' near-invulnerability saps interest in their onslaughts.

NBC had a short-lived hit with "Heroes," but repeated breaks in its story lines sapped interest.

The lack of a widely known Hispanic candidate for mayor might also sap interest in the race this year, he said.

Economic stagnation in the United States and most other industrialized economies since 2008 has produced stagnant electricity demand, further sapping interest in nuclear power.

But this result may sap interest -- and the financial incentive.

Although the Democrat-versus-Democrat Senate race sets the stage for the highest-profile contest between two members of the same party since California adopted a top-two primary election system in 2012, it also has sapped interest among California Republicans who don't see one of their own on the ballot, Schnur said. .

Recent street protests and erratic government policies have also sapped investor interest in the country.

But the proliferation of big fixtures such as the world championships (which first took place in 1983) ended up sapping the interest that it had initially aroused.

These scholarly activities devoured huge amounts of his time, until eventually he realized that they were destructive addictions, sapping his interest in his own work, and he gave them up: "I think that this passion [for Lope] was a useful therapy: pure research has nothing to do with human beings".

Neither of us had ventured back to the area until this year – to be honest, going to Hackney Wick every day for a month had sapped our interest in industrial wastelands a little – but it had always been our intention to make a sequel, updating the story, which we would call Seven Summers.

Weeks of tedious scientific testimony have sapped public interest in the case; Judge Lance A. Ito evicted two reporters from the courtroom for talking too much; and when one of the lawyers referred to the throng of analysts commenting on the case in the media Judge Ito replied, "Your first mistake is to listen to the commentators".