1、That loss of confidence is sapping sterling.

2、Lack of planning is sapping the company's efficiency.

3、And its probably sapping your creativity along with it.

4、Stockmarket investors are already worried that problems in the housing market are sapping the economy's vigour.

5、a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications).

6、In sumptuous first-class cabins, humidity can plunge to 5%, sapping the bouquet from champagne and caviar.

7、Either you are overloading the server, or there is a runaway process that is sapping your system resources.

8、Consistently breaking a sweat, along with medication and counseling can help people battling depression by sapping lonely and vulnerable feelings.

9、That was aimed at reducing the loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia, which is hollowing out Japan’s industrial base and sapping tax revenues.

10、Its target of a 1.25-1.5% return on assets is higher than many Banks enjoyed even before the crisis and the profit-sapping regulatory reforms it spawned.

11、But Labour's front bench cannot agree whether to apologise for giddy levels of spending before the credit crunch, or to boast about them, sapping the party's credibility.

12、Everything, it seems, is possible here, from utopian triumphs of the imagination to soul-sapping expressions of a disregard for individual lives.

13、Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

14、Skipper Steven Gerrard emerged from Cardiff with all the headlines after a two goal display, but Benitez insists his midfield colleague worked every bit as hard during an energy-sapping encounter inside the Millennium Stadium.

15、What's worse, the animalistic instinct dormant deep in our subconsciousness will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character.