The strain of writing these plays, while his critical and political work went on unabated, so sapped Shaw's strength that a minor illness became a major one.
Its budget and expertise had been so sapped by 2001 that there were few independent thinkers left, and even fewer who knew the details of the AIDS catastrophe in Africa.
A vision into the batting future in 50-over cricket has come from the incendiary starts given to the innings by Parthiv Patel and Ajinkya Rahane but most instructive has been the resurrection of Suresh Raina, whose frailty against the short ball during the Test series so sapped his confidence that he endured the agony of a 42-ball pair in the final Test.
There are, for example, the families where benefits are said to have so sapped the will to work that nobody has lifted a finger in three generations; Hills patiently recounts the fruitless efforts of social scientists to track down a single instance of this supposed species.
There are, for example, the families where benefits are said to have so sapped the will to work that nobody has lifted a finger in three generations; Hills patiently recounts the fruitless efforts of social scientists to track down a single instance of this supposed species.
So SAP basically said, oh, hey, by the way, I just got an order from them on the website.
Our addiction to our electronic/entertainment/celebrity culture has so sapped our powers of concentration and our national will that even when confronted with a crisis which risks bringing our whole economic system down we can't summon the willpower to act like grownups and get on with the business of repairing the damage.
It's out there, it's not illegal, and ex-gay organizations take advantage of the most vulnerable members of the LGBT community and turn large profits while doing so, sapping the money and time of LGBTs who turn to them.
A spectrum so broad saps the film's narrative interest, but it also yields crazily inspired moments, like one in which Ted -- who has been concealing a Bible inside his copy of The Economist -- begins reading the Scriptures while dancing rakishly to "Pennsylvania 6-5000". He thinks he's home alone, but Fred comes back by accident.
But like William Steig and Ben Shahn, he also captures a worn and discombobulated simplicity in people, and does so without sap or compromise.
Oracle has hustled to build its own cloud capabilities in the three years since Mr. Hurd joined, but so has SAP, its old nemesis.
