Factory orders unexpectedly fell in June, the latest sign that the slowing economy is sapping demand.
And worries centered on Greece and Spain are reverberating around the world, sapping trading volumes.
Murray needed five energy sapping sets to beat 17-time major winner Roger Federer on Friday night.
It's another strength-sapping circuit due to the heat and the conditions can be very tough.
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Its approval was delayed several times and numerous efficiency-sapping constraints were placed on it.
The soul-sapping boredom of it all is reflected in its urgent spawning of ever-more-extreme cheap thrills.
Who knew that the confidence-sapping 1970s would manage to produce Apple Computer, Microsoft, Oracle and Federal Express?
Once they do, the alleged need for market-sapping legislative "fixes" elsewhere will soon become much less pressing.
Discounters like Wal-Mart and Target were sapping it from the low end, and class acts like Nordstrom from the high.
Officials spoke at an East Manhattan substation that flooded during Sandy, sapping power to some 250, 000 New Yorkers.
Short of higher demand--or lower supply--is there anything that would enable carmakers to roll back their profit-sapping incentives?
This manifests itself in, among other things, an excessive love of deep-fried Mars bars and other health-sapping delicacies.
Governments spend to boost demand, but in truth, government spending reduces it for it tautologically sapping our productivity.
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Conversely, to foist new profit sapping rules on them would be to set them up for future failure.
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These agents waste time competing with each other for the exclusive right to sell each home, sapping productivity.
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England's four wickets between lunch and tea were the result of some run-sapping pressure built up by the seamers.
The financial-economic crisis continues, sapping military budgets on both sides of the Atlantic.
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However, despite that confidence-sapping loss, the hosts gave every indication a win was finally coming after a bright start.
But since then, every time the Detroit companies tried to scale back those profit-sapping deals, they lost market share.
No doubt the unions will continue to argue that performance pay sets teachers against each other, thereby sapping morale.
After that, the property's other tenants often demand rent concessions or lease terminations, further sapping the mall's cash flow.
Officials in Geneva worry that these are sapping energy from the Doha round.
This loss of support is sapping both parties' will to make sensible compromises.
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The U.S. draft report leaves the impression that corruption is sapping Iraq's resources.
The sapping of U.S. influence in this region has had wide-ranging ripple effects.
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But as Greenspan noted, the economy-sapping migration toward housing was global in nature.
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That crash led to the use of horsepower-sapping restrictor plates at Talladega and its sister track in Daytona, NASCAR's fastest layouts.
The problem of virtual reality sapping the ability to deal with the actual reality of battle was raised by Army ombudsman Maj.
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Damage from the tsunami and nuclear accident prompted many to leave towns and villages for big cities, sapping energy out of communities.
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