| Too many of them jumped me, pinning me with claws and weight so they could use their saps and truncheons until I was in no condition to struggle. |
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| Vitamin B-12 deficiency can also be caused by a tapeworm ingested from contaminated fish, because the tapeworm saps nutrients from your body. |
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| Thank goodness the cameras are there to capture Lady Luck smiling on these heartbroken saps, who really just want to find real love. |
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| He idly wondered who the poor saps were who would be saddled with the escort duty on that one. |
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| Paternalism fosters passivity and dependence, saps self confidence, and undermines people's ability to cope. |
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| Equally worrying, the board structure dictated by co-determination saps good governance. |
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| Even so, the job saps the vitality, and a referee gets mental fatigue as well as physical. |
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| If they are made to work, and are chastised, but stinted of their food, such treatment is oppressive, and saps their strength. |
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| One of the problems with this type of destructive criticism is that it saps your confidence. |
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| They most certainly wanted all the saps watching to believe in the sign's authenticity and go hunting for this mysterious website. |
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| This work, however, saps them of the strength required to fulfill their dreams. |
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| But for businesses, foreign competition saps pricing power, forcing companies to improve efficiency and cut costs. |
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| Television writers are usually tiny, weak, sunlight-deprived saps who are kept chained to a wall in a cupboard. |
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| South Morang is a ludicrously boring place which saps you of the will to do anything but turn around and go home. |
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| It just saps morale and puts pressure on couples who are eager to build their own lives. |
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| An unpredictable disease that saps your energy and alters your ability to get things done can make progress towards your goals more difficult. |
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| It saps productivity, deters wealth creation and remains a visible competitive disadvantage. |
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| A failure to do so undermines community support, justifies government indifference and ultimately saps the spirit and integrity of the Circle. |
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| So what happens to those poor saps who write encyclopedias for a living? |
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| But race is usually less about facts than historical mythology, which evokes the black bogyman, who saps the money from the whites who earn it. |
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| Africa is now at a critical stage in the struggle against a disease that saps its development. |
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| Hot tubs can also be risky because the high heat quickly saps your strength and energy. |
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| But what about mild depression, the kind of sadness that puts you in a fidget, makes you lose sleep, dulls your appetite and your wit, and saps your energy? |
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| It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair. |
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| Besides, complaining about McConnell only saps valuable time away from objecting vehemently to Joe Lieberman. |
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| Mildew destroys new shoots on apples and gradually saps the tree's vigor. |
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| There's an airlessness and an insularity to the performance that saps it of some energy. |
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| I had thought about buying a place up here myself, but then I'd be obligated to entertain social climbing saps and I do enough of that when Parliament is in session. |
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| The poor saps who have tried to use this Web site have already lost more time and leasing agreements than any benefit we might have earned through its availability off-campus. |
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| Although, few came right out and said it, the implication was that socially concerned investors were good-hearted saps, destined for sub-par returns. |
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| Carey wanted the insipid, social-climbing saps to leave her alone. |
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| Superficially, I can picture only saps or children falling prey. |
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| Walk into any bar on a Friday night and she's sure to be there, working her delicate trade, soaking up free drinks as fast as she can get saps to buy them. |
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| It is naturally assumed not only that we poor saps queuing in line need constant diversion, but that we need infantile diversion of the worst kind. |
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| Thirdly, the utter chaos of one daily delivery as the public clamours for an early service, not an afternoon delivery, causes friction and further saps staff morale. |
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| By the time the poor saps get to college, they are ineducable. |
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| It blunts the intellect, saps the productivity of everyone it touches and perpetuates poverty. |
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| Malnutrition blunts intellects and saps the productivity and potential of entire societies. |
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| Overcooking vegetables saps them of flavour and texture and makes them far less healthy to eat, as the vitamins and minerals become lost in the cooking water. |
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| To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah. |
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| Combined with other factors, like the islands' substrate type, ice abrasion and current speed in the channel, this onslaught steadily saps the banks, and the substrate slowly crumbles into the water. |
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| For medical reasons as yet unidentified, something happens to normally robust fathers upon entry into one of these kids' museums, something that instantaneously saps them of their ability to speak, ambulate, or even parent. |
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| Many untreated depressives lack friends because it saps the vitality that friendship requires and immures its victims in an impenetrable sheath, making it hard for them to speak or hear words of comfort. |
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| And in summer the heat saps a fighting force. |
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| These ongoing negative emotions can mean the child is locked in an ongoing power struggle with a parent, which saps a child's energy and interferes with normal development. |
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| Millions of children worldwide are trapped in mind-numbing subsistence-level labor of little economic value but which saps the creativity and learning potential of entire communities of future workers. |
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| Vegetable saps, extracts, peptic substances and thickeners. |
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| Though they'd never admit it, people tuned in to shows such as Pop Idol specifically to see Simon Cowell hurl abuse at a parade of undeserving saps. |
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| Nonlethal weapons include electronic devices, chemical agents, and a variety of different striking instruments, such as straight, side-handle, and collapsible batons and an array of saps, truncheons, and clubs. |
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| In other words, better infrastructure sometimes saps, rather than invigorates, poorer regions. Finally, the design of infrastructure clearly matters. |
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| The overhang of houses in foreclosure, to be foreclosed, or under water constrains housing price growth, reduces the mobility of people in search of work, and saps consumer confidence. |
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| The unequal bargain struck when America negotiates with Jordan, say, then sets the floor for all such agreements. The main thing, though, is simply that the bilateral-agreement alternative saps momentum from the WTO process. |
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| But as yet the site doesn't have an entry for politicians who almost kill the poor saps they are hunting or fishing with. No doubt the good people at politicalgraveyard will soon update their site. |
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| The present system saps Malaysia's competitiveness, and has driven some frustrated members of the minorities mainly Chinese and Indians to decamp to more meritocratic countries. |
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| As if all this were not enough of an assault on the Canadian tradition of civility, intellectual commentators have advanced the theory that it somehow saps our vital juices. |
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| It is the combination of the insecurity and the bureaucratic problems which saps the morale of the humanitarian workers in place and renders the operation fragile. |
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| It saps my energy and I live with chronic fatigue and chronic pain. |
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