Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, sucks up nearly 10% of the country's energy output.
Sovereign debt issuance sucks up capital (savings) that corporations or individuals could use for their own purposes.
Scenario planning tends to be a lengthy process that sucks up a lot of time and energy.
Medicare currently sucks up nearly 13 percent of the entire federal budget, and that share is growing.
In contrast, Cool-er sucks up just about anything you can get onto your PC via a USB port.
Now, as Bankia sucks up financial aid, Spaniards wait to hear news of cuts to their welfare state.
Yet using them in various combinations sucks up time, space and efficiency and consumes billions of dollars in infrastructure.
Partly because it is a new business that sucks up capital in its early stages, long before earnings can materialize.
At the nearby Mickey's Corner, the local outlet for Walt Disney products, Mickey Mouse-style paraphernalia sucks up millions of renminbi.
With a population of 9.8 million people spread over 4, 058 square miles, L.A. sucks up 1.9 billion gallons of gasoline a year.
Because honey is composed of saturated sugars, it sucks up water, depriving bacteria of the liquid they need to survive and multiply.
The beast sucks up 4 megawatts of power to forecast weather and survey mines at a speed of 2.5 quadrillion calculations per second.
"That issue sucks up all the air, and you don't get to talk about taxes and Social Security and health care and education and national defense, " said Rep. J.
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That means more nutrients in the soil, where it feeds food crops, and less in lakes and streams, where it feeds algae that sucks up oxygen and kills fish.
There are a few more inventive tactics that are increasingly becoming popular among thieves, such as constructing a rubber band and paper clip hook that sucks up products under the sleeve.
Traditional RISC processors can handle digital signal processing tasks, but the additional work sucks up valuable processing power that could be used elsewhere, said David Pelavin, product marketing manager for Hitachi's SuperH product family.
The purchase positions Google for the biggest merger of all: from the television big screen that sucks up nearly 5 hours of viewing each day (versus 10 minutes of video viewing any other way and only 12 minutes on Facebook on average per FB user) to ogling the small screens on computers, tablets and smartphones.
It's a catheter with a rotor blade at its tip that chops away at the gunk on the artery walls and then sucks it up.
Raidious operatives will be able to pick up on a general phrase such as "parking sucks" to offer assistance.
The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
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