| Some others may have been produced by sapping or sub-surface flows, giving shape to short stubby channels that join at 90 degree angles. |
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| But I suspect that the close-sounding amplification was slightly sapping the singers' powers of expression. |
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| The moment of straining to control the extra power had taken some of my reserves, sapping my magical strength. |
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| Unfortunately the singers having some trouble holding the notes and it seems to be sapping the energy they're all generating. |
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| He might be back, too, if his mysterious benign tumor stops sapping him of his strength. |
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| The essential oil of these lovely, purple, highly fragrant flowers can soothe your soul without sapping your energy. |
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| As the DSG gearbox is a mechanical unit, not a fuel sapping automatic type, fuel consumption is not adversely affected. |
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| Now, as companies close the books on another quarter, the lack of pricing power combined with weak demand is sapping the top and bottom lines. |
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| Despite his physical fitness Jack's weight has already gone from 14 stone to 12 stone sapping him of vital energy. |
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| Your official passion for evidence is gradually sapping your brilliant intellect and smothering your instincts. |
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| The beach systems are formed entirely by groundwater outflow and sapping where the water table intersects the beach face. |
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| The main section of this unit comprised of paratroopers, including those trained in sapping. |
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| It's a hot, sticky night, and air shifts soupily around the venue, sapping the energy and breaking sweat across a couple of dozen foreheads without exertion. |
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| I want a job so much I feel the desire consuming me, sapping my energy. |
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| She was floundering in the deep pool, the water getting steadily deeper instead of shallower, her meagre supply of strength rapidly sapping as she struggled. |
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| Unfortunately, due to the continued worsening of the security situation, I've also seen a slow sapping of hope from many Afghans. |
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| Those we didn't care for lacked vivaciousness, as if the manipulations had been overdone, sapping the wine of its vigor. |
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| The challenge of providing security without sapping the vigour of programming will continue to preoccupy the NCC in years to come. |
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| Millions of working-age Americans have left the labour force, sapping the country's economic potential. |
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| For the tortoise, such low morale could prove disastrous, sapping its determination and perseverance. |
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| Its first application in 1996 elections yielded an unlikely coalition which finally collapsed, sapping confidence in the new system. |
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| In this way we risk sapping Europe's credibility, rather than reinforcing it in a crucial phase like the one initiated by the Bali Conference. |
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| This intelligent design prevents the side plates from being pulled through the recycled material idly and sapping power needlessly. |
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| Accusations of dishonor demonize and demoralize, making it difficult to compromise, and sapping the motivation to act nobly. |
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| If I may say so, you need to get past this issue that is sapping your energy and demoralizing your followers. |
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| The president suffered a 12-point swing to Romney, sapping his 9-point advantage. |
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| Over the past months, as I had tried unsuccessfully to fight colds and infections, a tumor had been growing inside my chest, sapping my strength and will power. |
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| Still, he's a flawed guy, and the Philistines capitalize on this by sending in top-secret operative Delilah, the seductive hottie charged with sapping Samson of his strength. |
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| Until now Zak, who can't eat and is fed through tubes in his stomach, only had to go on oxygen at night after his oxygen levels dropped sapping him of energy. |
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| At the same time the cost of building roads has risen faster than prices in general, further sapping the fund's value. Fingers in the dykePolitics has compounded the problem. |
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| Meanwhile, womanhating as a recourse of the powerless is sapping strength from black communities, and our very lives. |
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| The dollar dropped against most of its major currency rivals yesterday, as strong U. S. housing sales data reinforced optimism about the health of the global economy, sapping safe-haven demand for the greenback. |
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| On Wednesday they completed a 24km trek despite battling against katabatic wind, huge energy sapping downslope gusts. |
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| Restrictions on sledding, which often takes place on municipal lands, at least have an apparently clear public basis: fear of city-budget sapping lawsuits. |
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| But its global rise in popularity has come at a price, with an increasingly expanded ITU World Triathlon Series calendar bringing high-profile races but also sapping the energy of its star attractions. |
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| Prideaux thought it was better to shell the fort with mortar fire while conducting siege operations in the European fashion with parallel sapping trenches. |
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| These costs and expenditures are sapping resources that would be better used elsewhere, for example as investments in the private sector and infrastructure. |
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| The battle was far more damaging to the Ottoman navy in sapping experienced manpower than the loss of ships, which were rapidly replaced. |
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| I inch along the jungle path, heat sapping my strength. |
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| An abusive man undermines a mother's efforts to parent, whether by contradicting her, sapping her confidence as a parent, or eroding the children's view of her as a person worthy of respect. |
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| However, analysts now fear that the solvency problems in the financial markets have spurred rapid declines in equity values, sapping pension fund returns. |
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| Internal social, economic, and in some cases political problems are fuelling a rising migration sapping the region of much needed quality human resources. |
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| Questioning the premise that APD damages the British economy by deterring overseas visitors and sapping the indirect economic benefits of air travel is corporate blasphemy. |
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| Savers and investors are confronting some of the lowest interest rates in 30 years, which are sapping the returns on traditional short-term investments. |
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