Power sapped their humanity.

I thought if I drained all your energy, you would listen to me.

It seemed as if all the life had been drained out of me.

Even as Miki's valiant defense exhausted our foe's strategies,

But by the early 1980's social democracy had exhausted itself.

When the mines were exhausted, the emphasis turned to other products such as coffee, salts and textiles.

They've exhausted the power of the planet, and they get their energy directly from their mother star.

There was something about this woman that sapped a chappie's will power.

The Resistance in Stalingrad has bled our fuel and ammunition in unexpected quantities.

But in 1822, as he crossed the Andes, Simón Bolívar confronted the Pastusos rebellion, who were accosting his army through guerrilla warfare.

As for the rest, their reasons for supporting the Bush administration s savings draining policies remain mysterious.

Organizing the tournament was very expensive, of course, and the money spent on preparations drained resources meant for Brazil's many other pressing issues.

Commentators are consumed by politics, flailing away at any available target, while the anti austerity masses apparently believe that there are easy cyclical solutions to tough structural problems.

Recently, Vogel has described Japan s political system as an absolute mess, with prime ministers replaced almost every year and the youngest generation s expectations sapped by years of deflation.

They point to the fact that the world's major central banks the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan have so firmly established their anti inflation credibility that the inflation risk premium has been wrung out of interest rates.

However, it is now clearer than ever that these challenges have thus far outstripped the capacities both of the science and technology community and of society to forge effective and comprehensive responses.

Draft resolution A 49 L.24 Rev.1, to be seen in the context of the end of the war in Rwanda, draws the attention of the international community to the need for emergency international assistance for that country, bled white economically, financially and socially.

But his credibility was sapped in the wake of criticism of the BoE s handling of the collapse in 1991 of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International an episode that anticipated later issues in managing the failure of large, cross border institutions.

Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving multilateral trade deficits will persist.

quot For over half a century our region has lived through a bitter period of instability, wars, and political, economic and social problems that have sapped its energies and capabilities and deprived it and its peoples in particular our Palestinian people of security, development and growth.

Furthermore, the inclusion of milk as a group unto itself implies that is an essential part of a healthy diet, despite the many people who are lactose intolerant or choose to abstain from dairy, and a number of cultures that have historically consumed little if any dairy products.

Yes, American military prowess has drained away into what Winston Churchill called the thankless deserts of Mesopotamia, and its moral authority has been weakened by events in places from Guantánamo Bay to Abu Ghraib.