Sentence examples for which has drained from inspiring English sources

Derek Cannon Bassenthwaite, Cumbria In 1983 Tony Blair said, "We'll negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC which has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs".

But there is neither the space nor the surroundings to expand it.Mr Houghton reckons that rebuilding will allow the market to rival the vast Meadowhall shopping centre at Sheffield, which has drained a lot of customers from Barnsley.

And yet Detroit's bankruptcy filing focused press attention on the pensions earned by police officers, firefighters, and sanitation workers, rather than on the bank criminality which has drained so much money from the nation's coffers.

Economic revival virtually depends on reversing those policies, which have drained resources and provoked a cutoff of Western and Japanese assistance.

Had we done so, we might not have been so easily misled into foolish wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have drained our Treasury and distracted the nation from the real work required to build a sustainable economy.

The governor, a Democrat, also announced a plan for billions in income tax cuts beginning in 2018 — affecting families earning less than $300,000 — and to end the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which had drained money from local school districts for state uses.

The lower half of an extremely fat man on little legs and feet forms an interior bowl, which has drain holes in the center like those of a urinal.

J. Rawlings of Ghana blamed Western corporations for "thrusting" corruption on Africa, which, he contended, "has drained some of our countries of resources which should have been used to improve the quality of life of the poor and disadvantaged".

Usually light, a mountain breeze may become a violent, gusty wind when it is funneled through a narrow gorge into which cold air has drained from many higher valleys.

Jumbled memories of a drug-fuelled weekend in Singapore are reassembled in a series of long, virtuoso sentences from which all punctuation has drained in the sheer rush of events.

The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best termed a "depleted" state, in which the military has drained resources from all other social functions.