Surging oil prices are draining our foreign exchange revenues.

Unfortunately, Iraq is draining all the oxygen out of the policy process in Washington.

Disease saps the greatest asset that any country possesses the energy and talent of its people.

In their private lives, Americans have become addicted to consumerism, which drains their time, savings, attention, and inclination to engage in acts of collective compassion.

Spending 10 per day on energy services would, for example, exhaust the per capita incomes of countries such as Angola, Ecuador, and Macedonia.

As a result, the willingness of WTO members to invoke the Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the pride of the WTO and, indeed, of international governance would also be sapped.

Hence the taboo on certain words, phrases, and arguments that imply that certain individuals, groups, or practices are superior or inferior, normal or abnormal hence the search for ever more neutral ways to label social phenomena, thereby draining language of its vigor and interest.