Sapping in a sentence

Add in the fact that Chinese brands spent the last several years sapping up industry know-how from joint ventures with US brands, and the Chinese market suddenly becomes a much more hostile place for American companies.

But gradually, for all the women I know it has become a soul-sapping experience, full of men just up for casual sex (yes, even in our 60s —and lots of younger men like older women) while we are looking for commitment.

It's a tall order for ' troops to keep this European run alive against a team who eliminated Swiss giants Basel in the second round when they meet in the sapping summer heat in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

The chill slows down the chemical reactions inside your car battery, sapping its strength, meaning it must work much harder to produce electricity,” Mr Ames said.

The main junior races take in one loop of Penistone Hill, going round the trig and back into the quarry, before the final thigh-sapping climb out of the quarry and sprint to the finish.

Another energy-sapping appliance is the oven, which can take time to heat up the space inside of it and the food, Mr Lewis - the Money Saving Expert founder - said.

As part of her rehabilitation, Natasha has undergone physical therapy and energy-sapping rounds of radiation.

At 30-0, another sapping rally unfolds, and Haddad Maia has the poise to compose before clock a backhand winner down the line.

No matter, he soon makes 40-15, but after yet another sapping rally, he nets a forehand either hit tentatively or exhaustedly.

The debt crisis has caused the value of many currencies to depreciate, further sapping purchasing power.

The firewall’s “inexplicable opacity and ambiguity” is sapping Pakistan’s economic potential and could cost its IT sector up to US$300 million, according to the Pakistan Software Houses Association, which represents IT firms.

The new polls showed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling stronger than any third-party candidate has in decades, sapping support from both Biden and Trump.

Authorities warn the run off from rains could further endanger fish and choke rivers with oxygen-sapping ash and other pollutants.

Of the 66 valley systems studied, the researchers identified 22 as being formed from subglacial erosion: 14 fluvial, nine glacial, three sapping, and 18 indeterminate.

She told a Tori News correspondent, “I usually hear of energy-sapping traffic gridlocks but I have never been stuck in one for more than an hour.

Specifically, they say an outsize focus on consumer education and communication efforts is sapping attention away from more systemic interventions.

This is the endless modern limbo of Newcastle: utterly joyless, utterly sapping and utterly hopeless.

What is going in in New York, according to Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart, is the perfect storm of the bail law, rioting sapping police resources and deterring better policing, and coronavirus jailbreak.

As Barty's rivals fret over the prospect of another energy-sapping fortnight, Barty is ready for whatever conditions confront her at Flushing Meadows: "It's certainly no different to a Brisbane summer".

But the 27 are also deeply frustrated with the intractable divorce, which is sapping time, energy and political capital that should otherwise be spent on jump-starting economies and tackling security and other challenges.