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Prince Turki said the kingdom was working on developing wind, solar and nuclear sources to avoid sapping oil exports.

Rogers knew that he had to move from the side of the bus, where the full force of the current was sapping his dwindling energy.

As a striker in his own playing days, Ferguson is also aware of the sapping effects of a bad run.

Not only is Houston flat but it's hot, a strength-sapping steam bath for at least six months of the year.

More generally, falling property prices are one of the factors sapping consumer confidence.

LAST November marked the start of the tenth year since the epic, stamina-sapping Doha round of trade talks began.

January's VAT rise has added to the inflation stemming from oil prices and a weak pound, sapping consumer spending.

If taken too far, such handouts tend to become a crutch rather than a leg-up, and can end up sapping public support for the policy.

Sometimes, a job that's sapping your energy can be fixed with just a few little tweaks.

And its probably sapping your creativity along with it.

balance sheet pressures sapping growth, instability in the core of the global economic system, and social tensions.

In richer countries, rising gasoline prices have been sapping consumers' ability to spend on other things.

Unnecessarily long working hours are the norm, sapping productivity.

Excessive budget deficits, left unattended, risk weakening our markets and sapping our economic vitality.

But the West's economic slump has given force to their claims by sapping the earning power of the young.

Retail therapy does work, but being happy can end up sapping our self-control in the face of tempting sales.

One worry is that the Franco-German proposals re-open a number of contentious debates within the EU, further sapping investor confidence.

They want to slow expansion just enough to cool inflation without sapping job growth.

A classic case where market intervention is sapping the moral fiber of a society, " Popenoe says. "

As Mr Acquisti says, sharing named photos online has "opened the floodgates" to a new, privacy-sapping world. Shutting them will be hard.

Groundwater sapping is the geomorphic reworking of surface topography induced by water seeping out from an aquifer.

They wanted to draw us in to endless wars, sapping our strength and confidence as a nation.

Concerns about the European debt crisis and high unemployment are sapping the Christmas holiday spirit in some of Europe's capitals.

Our war is sapping our money, lowering the value of our dollar and making people very insecure.

Deflation drives up real debt burdens, further sapping consumer spending.

Investors can expect plenty more dollar-sapping monetary policy to come.

Prices will probably fall again this year, sapping confidence and preventing people from moving to find work.

Still, in both cases we had to make these desperate energy-sapping comebacks in the 4th quarter and had nothing left for OT.

secretly carrying out Wen Zhong's scheme of sapping the national strength of Wu by every means.

The players are coming off an energy sapping Champions League match midweek but they need to lift again for this home match against {30}.

She would walk in futile circles, sapping her strength while going nowhere.

Try letting go of the situation you cannot control, the one that's sapping your energy and churning your sleep.

The 1930s brought bull markets followed by bears, taking back gains and sapping investor confidence.

They want to draw us into endless wars, sapping our strength and confidence as a nation.

Another is the debilitating row about Germany's stance towards bail-outs and credit haircuts, which is also sapping confidence.

Which, it turns out, is a huge productivity-sapping mistake.

I thought about sharon escaping the life-sapping neons of the supermarket. . . traveling to south america , pursuing her dreams.

Behind the dismal economic numbers is a global recession that is sapping demand for the products Taiwan makes.

Germany has the third-largest trade surplus in the world, after China and Japan, sapping growth in its European neighbors.

Rotate agricultural crops to prevent the sapping of nutrients.

We sit for too long at the computer, sapping energy.

It is a dismal and confidence-sapping prospect.

Nor are you condemned to a life plagued by the energy-sapping, happiness-stunting emotions of deep-seeded anger and resentment.

Yet the book did have a soul-sapping effect on unsuspecting Christians.

At the end of a hard day it can sometimes feel like gadgets such as phones and computers are sapping our energy.

To some, Citi's aeroplane fiasco is equally confidence-sapping.

But the West'seconomic slump has given force to their claims by sapping the earning power ofthe young.

Playing a game keeps your mind working (versus, say, watching TV), but doesn't have any of the energy-sapping stresses of work.

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

Soon, despite the sapping heat and humidity, there's a lively discussion in the room about how to deal with difficult teenagers.

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

Apply that question across the board and you'll know what -- and who -- is sapping your energy so you can avoid them.

In the energy-sapping thin air, the males must try to control groups of females

Investigation on the Sapping Pests of Garden Trees in Guangxi Forestry School

The biggest lesson the country may yet teach the world is about the growth-sapping effects of ageing