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For a while it was such a drain on News Corporation that the parent company came close to bankruptcy.

While United are at least in profit once more, the figures merely emphasise what a drain on resources their debt position has become.

Until a certain number of these upgrades are performed, these planets will be a drain on your empire's credit income.

Breastfeeding, in and of itself, is not a drain on physical energy, although most women do feel fatigued when pregnant.

This can be a drain on your bandwidth, because if someone links directly to the image on your site, then you lose the bandwidth.

I think looking after her elderly mother is quite a drain on her energy.

State budget cuts will also be a drain on output, as they have been for most of the recession.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting you multitask. Multitasking is even more of a drain on focus than focus.

The cost of necessary repairs to your home and car, however, may pose a drain on your wallet.

For decades, pundits have been warning that a time would come when Social Security would start to become a drain on the federal budget.

Finally, it does not help France as a guarantor of the euro zone rescue fund as that could be a drain on their resources.

The expedition was a drain on her pocket.

If you watch it passively, automatically, and for want of anything better to do, it can be a drain on happiness.

Interns aren't supposed to be a drain on time, energy or resources.

But the non-performing loans may come to constitute a drain on banks' resources that inhibits lending to more productive borrowers.

What he has spent is a drain on the savings of his parents.

Even then, interest-rate subsidies make their loans a drain on the public finances.

Despite being a drain on the battery, multitasking capability is definitely a must for the smartphones of the future.

Multitasking is even more of a drain on focus than focus.

The war on Iraq is a drain on American resources.

When poor programming habits sneak into your code, they're a drain on productivity.

The Afghan and Iraqi Wars are a drain on American resources.

When you are importing great quantities of commodities, that can be a problem and it's a drain on their resources.

This month has been quite a drain on my wallet.

Irrigating qat is also a drain on water reserves that are anyway drying up fast.

The mortgage is a drain on our financial resources.

It is also a drain on your time to over care for things.

In other words, rather than being a drain on global demand, China helped pull the world economy along during the course of last year.

The Solution: Valet parking seems like an indulgence (and a drain on your wallet. )

Interruptions that are a drain on my patience

If one person is a drain on the support resource, the system doesn't work- Physician, female, 51

A drain on the national resources

eg. a drain on cash