Polls suggest that Brexit is already sapping Britain's soft power.
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Changing attitudes among the very rich are also sapping demand.
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Because in sapping her clothes of potentially controversial content, Mrs.
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"Drugs are sapping our strength as a nation," Bush said.
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Sapping the effectiveness of encryption protections threatens the entire Internet.
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It wasn't really the electricity sapping phenomenon it is today.
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It is sapping vitality from an already weakening world economy.
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Round and round the cycle goes, further sapping the economy.
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Uncertainty over fiscal policy can harm economic growth, sapping investors' confidence.
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And with electricity yet to be restored, the heat is sapping.
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The old wealth tax was inefficient, incentive-sapping and often avoided.
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Discounts are offered willy-nilly to diners, sapping profits for all.
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That implies replacing current regulation with, well, other revenue-sapping regulation.
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But that "bonus" never materialised, further sapping enthusiasm for the project.
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Venus persevered while battling Sjogren's syndrome, an energy-sapping autoimmune disease.
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Launch control allows for quick starts without speed-sapping wheel spin.
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Those low interest rates may be sapping the economy of its vitality.
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Generous parking requirements create asphalt deserts, sapping cities of vigour and beauty.
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He has frequently blamed Mexico for sapping jobs from working-class Americans.
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Someone is hoping to rescue you from the soul-sapping email workflow.
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Environmentalists have long criticized technology for sapping children's curiosity about the natural world.
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Sanders seems more likely to get mired in endless, energy-sapping confirmation battles.
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This was an attempt to fend off the specter of growth-sapping deflation.
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For now, for Aubameyang and the Gabon team, football is proving spirt-sapping.
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The work is repetitive; piece work makes it all the more soul-sapping.
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Given those threats, bosses would hardly employ lots of useless, profit-sapping staff.
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Also hurting Texas is the trade war, which is sapping exports and imports.
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Concerts, carnivals and sporting events were canceled, sapping revenue from the entertainment industry.
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However, the Bakken discount has disappeared, and so have the trains, sapping profits.
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S. trade deal lifted risk appetite, sapping safe-haven demand for the greenback.
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But social insecurity instead risks sapping their populations' willingness to embrace technological change.
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UnitedHealth has bolstered its position, first by abandoning those profit-sapping exchanges wholesale.
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And his plots are a snooze, frequently sapping the show of its momentum.
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He finds solace—and relief from morale-sapping heat—in trips to the Himalayas.
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No need to download anything, no in-game fees, no updates, no data sapping.
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Beijing has vowed to tackle price-sapping supply gluts in its major industrial sectors.
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" Power cuts plague Sanaa, sapping the dehumidifiers that help preserve the "Hall of Mummies.
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The air-conditioning whirring away, pumping stale air into the already energy sapping atmosphere.
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Will a major political or economic crisis break out, forcing reactions and sapping focus?
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China's reckless behavior, he contended, is endangering the global economy, and sapping America's strength.
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She was worried about sapping her energies in the service of someone else's vision.
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S. trade tensions will also push up demand for palm, sapping stockpiles, he said.
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Some force — internal, imposed or both — seems to be sapping their will to act.
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DALLAS (Reuters Breakingviews) - The ebbing of fossil fuels is sapping energy from GE - and beyond.
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If competition-sapping mergers are not the way to create world-beating companies, what is?
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Despite signs that industrial concentration is sapping the economy of its dynamism, regulators remain permissive.
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When you live in your wax, you are doing things that are sapping your energy.
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They could avoid getting sidetracked with kid driving, feeding, clothing, and other time-sapping chores.
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Several experienced pilots said there was an array of stressful factors sapping the pilots' attention.
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That also has the advantage of requiring less range-sapping energy when the vehicle is unplugged.
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Not just illegal immigrants but immigrants in general, Bannon seemed to believe, were sapping America's Americanness.
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After gaining overnight, crude oil futures again fell, weighing on investor confidence and sapping risk appetite.
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Voters are also fed up with crumbling infrastructure, productivity sapping gridlock, persistent corruption and ineffective government.
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Argentina is also stuck in recession with sky-high interest rates sapping growth and hitting jobs.
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Still, several experienced pilots said there was an array of stressful factors sapping the pilots' attention.
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Both finalists played record-breaking, energy-sapping five-set semi-finals to reach the tournament's finale.
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Meanwhile, wages are growing at an annual pace of just 2 percent, sapping consumer spending power.
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He improved as Monday's match went on, winning in 3 hours 18 minutes in sapping heat.
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But Leadsom's resignation further deepens the Brexit crisis, sapping an already weak leader of her authority.
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Aging, according to recent economic research, is stunting the emergence of new businesses and sapping productivity.
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As soul-sapping as it can be, we need to suck it up and take it.
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These efforts to regulate bike sharing are misguided — and risk sapping the vitality from the industry.
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It was time, she realized, to escape the dungeon of bitterness that was sapping her energy.
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"Criticism, far from sapping the vitality of art, is instead what supplies its lifeblood," Scott writes.
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Stock trading often dries up when volatility vanishes, sapping Wall Street firms of lucrative trading fees.
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That was before a populist government came to power in the summer, sapping appetite for Italian bonds.
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But OPEC also renewed exemptions for Libya and Nigeria, which have struggled with output-sapping internal conflict.
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If something is stopping substandard firms from closing the gap, that could be sapping the economy's dynamism.
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Avoid sapping your energy levels and draining your bank accounts by checking out the 20 products ahead.
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It expanded too rapidly and had to fill planes with ever-more expensive fuel, sapping its cash.
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They not only don't like him, or respect him, they don't fear him, which is power-sapping.
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This, Simovich argues, risks sapping both radical politics and art concerned with such themes, of its power.
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Israeli forces now freely operate in PA areas, something Abbas described as sapping his credibility at home.
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Imagine if income inequality weren't already sapping consumer demand and weakening our ability to withstand temporary setbacks.
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The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a computer's processor.
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So the show registered as an improbable act of summoning and sustaining vitality under energy-sapping conditions.
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A quarter of U.S. refining capacity to be taken off-line due to the hurricane, sapping demand.
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But he had to lower his price, sapping revenue that he wanted to reinvest in the business.
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Not only are people watching more online video, they're also watching better quality video, sapping more bandwidth.
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Nairo Quintana had already been dropped, as the Colombian struggles to recover from an energy-sapping Giro d'Italia.
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With a global trade war sapping confidence, Europe's export-focused manufacturing sector has been in free fall recently.
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Brown has slammed free-trade deals for sapping Americans jobs and criticized U.S. manufacturers for moving operations overseas.
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Oil installations controlled by IS have been bombed, sapping the economic and the fighting power of the jihadists.
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For souls with sensitive stomachs, that can mean buses and passenger seats are productivity-sapping reading-free zones.
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With the advent of laptops, this was an even bigger hassle—booting takes energy, sapping precious battery life.
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In other sports we're used to long-term degenerative injuries slowly sapping the effectiveness of formerly great players.
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Venus, who has Sjogren's syndrome, an energy-sapping autoimmune disease, hasn't won a Grand Slam event since 2008.
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Mr. Sherman's too-bright ending does something similar — diffusing the clarity of the story and sapping its potency.
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As hopeless and sapping as his project often seems, it puts stock in the human capacity for reason.
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In that respect, it can be a confidence-sapping development unless they get it under control relatively quickly.
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Instead, the Lakers scuffled to a 37-45 record after months of general dysfunction and momentum-sapping injuries.
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That raises the cost of servicing debt, presenting governments with an excruciating choice between growth-sapping austerity and default.
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And getting bigger involves growing out of their exoskeletons, which ends up being an extremely taxing, energy sapping activity.
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However, the 2017 tax overhaul added to the federal deficit, sapping the government of revenues during a strong economy.
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As Brexit is sapping EU resources, the leaders will also turn to other pressing issues on Thursday and Friday.
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By continuing to call the EPA the Environmental Protection Agency, we risk further sapping those words of their meaning.
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Oil producers have been selling assets to reduce exposure to profit-sapping natural gas assets and to increase liquidity.
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Crossing those boundaries erased so much of the needless, energy sapping fear I had about getting dressed each day.
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Still, it's indisputable that the elder Scott Walker is better in every single respect than his life-sapping counterpart.
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"We have seen some signs of dollar strength sapping the appetite (for gold)," said Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen.
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Mild weather is sapping demand in major LNG consumers China and Japan as cold blasts depleted Europe's gas inventories.
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And here's a warning for any would-be champion: To win, you must overcome the morale-sapping Wimbledon groan.
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And all the more so because the Kremlin's sapping offensive in France is a vast and long-running project.
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Mr. Belcher said the short-term risk for Mr. Biden is sapping support from black voters in the primary.
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That program was unpopular with Havana because it prompted doctors to leave, sapping the country's pool of trained health workers.
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At the outset, Samus lands on SR388, the home planet of the metroids, a race of energy-sapping parasitic monsters.
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Their relentless pursuit of the big, the brash, and the bloody-mindedly mediocre is both money-making and spirit-sapping.
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She harvested the grain in the midst of a drought and sapping heat that charred many other types of crop.
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FOR anyone who has tried jogging through smog, the physically sapping impacts of air pollution should come as no surprise.
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But if some vote for Stein or abstain altogether, they could indirectly aid Trump by sapping votes away from Clinton.
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Land set aside for roads has suffered a similar fate, complicating efforts to tackle the city's spirit-sapping traffic jams.
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But the loud calls for her resignation further deepened Britain's Brexit crisis, sapping an already weak leader of her authority.
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Perhaps you're dropping a gig that's been sapping your energy, or ditching a bad habit after having a eureka moment!
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But that would boost inflation and hasten the rouble's decline, further sapping the purchasing power of Russian firms and families.
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That news sent Treasury yields lower on Friday, sapping the dollar's appeal, though they took back some ground on Monday.
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An outage at Syncrude facility in Canada has reduced the flow of synthetic crude from Canada, sapping stocks in Cushing.
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The effort faltered in "Heaven Knows What" (2014), a sapping saga of heroin addicts, but "Good Time" is something else.
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Crop seeds such as corn, soybeans and cotton are genetically modified to survive the pesticide while yield-sapping weeds die.
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Since entering the Senate, Maggi has focused on trying to streamline the bureaucracy he blames with sapping farm sector productivity.
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Oil price spikes have contributed to every recession since World War II by sapping consumer purchasing power, according to Moody's.
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Sinewy hardware cables leech from the flesh of BDSM performers, as if sapping the libidinal energy that powers the internet.
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So plentiful were such pleasure emporia that some activists feared they were sapping the strength of goal-oriented gay politics.
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Loan payments were sapping cash that it could have spent on updating its cavernous stores and building out its website.
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The company's ever-expanding retail operations are sapping its profits, but it has been raking in earnings through cloud computing.
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But Punisher's approach just makes you feel like you missed something, effectively sapping all tension, mystery, and immediacy from the experience.
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State finances have been in poor shape, sapping Rhode Island's ability to tend to basic things like maintaining its aging infrastructure.
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The election may make things worse, if it ends up sapping Mr Abe's authority, and with it his enthusiasm for reform.
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Yet the world's leading democracies instead could be locked in a series of morale-sapping, growth-slowing and politically polarizing skirmishes.
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ConocoPhillips has been selling assets to reduce its exposure to profit-sapping natural gas assets and shore up its balance sheet.
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Small financial centres, it huffs, are being bullied into accepting competitiveness-sapping rules shunned by some bigger countries, in particular America.
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Despite more aggressive efforts since 2012 to pull the economy out of deflation, consumer prices remain in a growth-sapping slump.
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The burst of sugar gave me a short boost of energy, which would quickly dissipate, further sapping me of my stamina.
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That would mean persevering in the face of both short-term defeats and the potentially energy-sapping influence of time itself.
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Twitter, I realized, was sapping all my time and energy, and sooner or later, I knew I would screw up royally.
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They applaud the administration's commitment to narrow the confidence-sapping budget deficit, which exploded to 10% of GDP on Ms Rousseff's watch.
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Another one, she said, is that as EVs do begin sapping gasoline demand, that will lower the price of the incumbent fuel.
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Financial flexibility: U.S. universities take about half of research grants as fixed overhead, sapping up funding before it reaches a scientist's hands.
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The idea that visits by politicians are an integral part of demonstrating concern and resolving challenges has become a time-sapping truism.
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This is what actually happened when I discovered Potluck and was sent their $80 Utensil Set during my latest life-sapping move.
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To avoid profit-sapping discounts, and reverse a decline in prices of used vehicles, automakers are ordering more and deeper production cuts.
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Nepal has been plagued by turmoil for years and the latest uncertainty over Oli's fate risks the further sapping of business confidence.
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By bringing people together to eat, they remind us that, differences aside, we all bear responsibility for the sapping of our environment.
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These households will face enormous challenges paying for housing and supportive services, with housing expenses sapping resources badly needed for food and healthcare.
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A surprise build in gasoline inventories fed concern that crude stocks may begin to rise again, sapping some strength from the recent rally.
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The current tax code, he says, pushes companies, investment, and jobs out of the United States, boosting foreign competitors and sapping US growth.
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Over the years, China has been forced to take action against price-sapping supply gluts in steel, coal and solar panels, among others.
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In upswings, they deter overspending; in downturns, they permit government revenues to fall of their own accord, without requiring demand-sapping tax hikes.
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Sources had told Reuters last week the Treasury was considering scrapping the sale given market turmoil and muted inflation sapping appetite for linkers.
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Beginning in mid-June, companies will stop buying back their stock prior to issuing earnings reports, sapping liquidity from the market, Kostin said.
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Sapping the image of its malicious nature, he affixes it into a constellation of images that celebrate queer contact rather than caricaturing it.
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He and some other experienced pilots said there was an array of stressful factors sapping the pilots' attention, which Muilenburg addressed on Thursday.
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After the Times story broke, advertisers began to flee O'Reilly's show, sapping what had once been a huge source of revenue for Fox.
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The left sees the state as a means to reduce market inequities, while the right sees government redistribution as a growth-sapping anchor.
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These households will face enormous challenges paying for housing and supportive services, with housing expenses sapping resources bad needed for food and healthcare.
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Samji added that liquidity-sapping rights issues and corporate actions from smaller sized companies like Arabtec and Drake & Scull would also grab attention.
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Mr. Xi appears to prefer shoes with fake laces — little plastic protrusions — sparing him the time-sapping drudgery of tying them, she said.
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" Then Breen shifted with brio to another will-sapping Golden State play: "Barbosa, with the steal — the Brazilian Blur — a 27-point game!
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In a city famous for a transformative hip-hop scene and life-sapping commutes, the Hawks fit more comfortably with the second connotation.
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By escaping the energy-sapping heat in Houston, the Texans believe they will train more efficiently, and with less strain on their bodies.
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We may soon find out, as interest rates drop during the coronavirus crisis, which appears to be sapping economic growth around the world.
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Williams, who has the energy-sapping autoimmune disorder Sjogren's syndrome, was asked if she had been feeling fatigued down the stretch on Saturday.
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It took just a few soul-sapping visits to wedding venues at home to convince the couple that they wanted to do something different.
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The decision was heavily criticised by Egypt's financial community, which said it would do little to curb rampant inflation while potentially sapping new investment.
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Still, the liberal media stick limpet-like to the Mueller probe, sapping the rising optimism and diverting resources from the work of the people.
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Tax rates here at home, the highest in the world, are sapping economic vitality and sending jobs across the oceans or across the border.
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And the screenplay makes this cheerful kid the heart and soul of the group, and sometimes its comic relief, without sapping him of dignity.
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Second, we must recognize periods when the trade deficit is hurting our markets and sapping demand that's not being replaced from other growth components.
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This was such an energy-sapping endeavor that Europe overlooked the other growing division: between Western believers in the European Union and Eastern nonbelievers.
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He said Nissan had bolstered sales in recent years, pursuing what he termed unrealistic goals, by leaning on profit-sapping incentives and fleet sales.
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But all those tactics succeeded in sapping Wilder's strength and blunting the punching power that helped him salvage a draw in the first bout.
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He sought therapy in 2003 to treat depression, the gnawing feeling that his "mind belonged to somebody else" sapping his enthusiasm for the game.
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Now, he's training for his next energy-sapping journey: a 2,070-kilometer (1,286-mile) run from the UAE to Saudi Arabia in 40 days.
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After the SPD's identity-sapping "grand coalition" with Mrs Merkel this term, it might prefer to go into opposition, leaving Jamaica as the only alternative.
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But the rate hikes may have gone too far in an economy long-accustomed to free money and coping with a confidence-sapping trade war.
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OPEC and other exporters including Russia agreed last year to cut output by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) to reduce a price-sapping glut.
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S. trade war could crimp development of the Chinese economy, potentially sapping local demand for steel and pushing more of the commodity into export markets.
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But instead of encouraging economic activity as intended, they did the opposite, at least in 2016-73, by sapping consumer demand, according to some economists.
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But it is also tired of vote-sapping coalitions with Mrs Merkel; the Young Socialists, the SPD's youth wing, are running an energetic "no" campaign.
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But if sapping enthusiasm for Trump's campaign has emboldened big-money groups on the Republican side, Senate Democrats may be evidence of the opposite effect.
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The last few minutes of both the second and final qualifying periods petered out with no drivers on track, sapping the entire process of suspense.
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One of the most physically grueling events on the calendar, with its heat and strength-sapping humidity, has also been a real challenge for drivers.
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It is small wonder therefore that many employers are hoping for a change of the Brexit plan, even if it means yet more sapping uncertainty.
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Specifically, Harvey struck Texas in late August, sapping demand for crude oil and crushing gasoline lines in various parts of the U.S. Southeast and Midwest.
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But he also warned that there's no way to know what other natural disasters might hit the country, sapping FEMA funds, between now and October.
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Average-inflation targeting would mean that interest rates would be lower for longer after an inflation-sapping recession, as policymakers aim for a temporary overshoot.
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But low crude prices and the war in Yemen are sapping the kingdom's budget, forcing the kingdom to try to diversify and adapt its economy.
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I looked into the square bright window of daylight to ask myself the sapping question: What is man that woman lies down to adore him?
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The PD blames Five Star for sapping some of its support in the March 2018 elections, and the Five Star Movement rejects PD's establishment credentials.
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By dismantling Palestinian freedoms, by disempowering his people, Abbas has been undoing the foundations of statehood and sapping the energy that comes with personal agency.
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The brutal primary could play to Donnelly's favor, sapping resources from the eventual Republican nominee and leaving wounds that could take some time to heal.
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At the D.N.C. forums, that move has repeatedly been blamed for sapping the grass-roots energy that might have made the difference in local contests.
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It strikes at the heart of the military justice system by sapping confidence in the fairness of that system by those who wear the uniform.
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"From the late 22008s to 220, neoliberal ideas held hegemonic sway among the Democratic elite," argues the Week's Ryan Cooper — thereby sapping the party's electoral support.
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The events in Chemnitz may be rewriting the rules of German politics, allowing more radical voices into the mainstream and sapping Nazi allegations of their power.
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But the two giants should be on their guard for another reason: having for so long fostered innovation, they are now at risk of sapping it.
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With the maritime situation reaching a fragile equilibrium, at least temporarily, traders' attention has switched back to flagging global growth and its impact sapping oil consumption.
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Trade tensions between the world's top two economies has roiled Chinese stock markets and the yuan currency, sapping foreigners' appetite for China assets in recent weeks.
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This creates a vicious circle in which utilities lose money, reducing the funds available for improving and expanding supply, and further sapping users' willingness to pay.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Wednesday as investors dumped high-growth names such as technology firms, with rising Treasury yields and trade-related worries sapping risk appetites.
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The airless tires' rolling resistance is about 10-20 percent worse than a typical modern tire, sapping the efficiency of the vehicle they are attached to.
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The plan then, to mollify the vote-sapping effects of the third-party candidates Stein and Johnson, would be to appeal to such millennial sensibilities – i.e.
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"Admitting to mistakes sends a message to your employees that it's a safe environment to take smart risks — and without that, you're sapping innovation," Taylor says.
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"The roach patrol was sapping his spirits, one wriggling baggie at a time," writes Mr. Hiaasen, who scores maximum comedic mileage out of Yancy's restaurant responsibilities.
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Diesel prices, by contrast, have suffered, because the wet conditions have forced farmers to delay planting, sapping demand for the fuel, used to power farming equipment.
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They want to drastically reduce the surplus industrial capacity that is sapping China's growth, while avoiding economic disruption and widespread layoffs that could lead to unrest.
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He does it so relentlessly that, by the end, the effect should be so draining, so head-spinning and soul-sapping, as to be faintly dystopian.
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"Admitting to mistakes sends a message to your employees that it's a safe environment to take smart risks — and without that, you're sapping innovation," Taylor said.
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As fears grow about the trade war sapping economic growth around the world, Trump has repeatedly claimed it will not hurt the U.S. economy or consumers.
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"The concern, for me, is a longer drawn-out set of negotiations back and forth could result in sapping business confidence," Powell told a news conference.
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But the author's Wall Street Journal day job bled through, sapping the book of emotion and preventing it from seizing the grandeur of the tale's climactic moments.
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Everton fans were at least used to disastrous results against Liverpool, having gone a soul-sapping 15 games without a win between March 1972 and October 19943.
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China's benchmark stock index skidded to four-year lows, sapping appetite for risk taking with the euro down 0.1 percent against the perceived safe-haven Swiss Franc.
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Opponents retort that Illinoisans are already among the most heavily taxed of all Americans, and warn that the changes will spur wealthy people to leave, sapping growth.
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When Lombard did charge in Magny did an excellent job of using the double collar tie to land knees to the midsection, further sapping Lombard's gas tank.
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Numbers crossing from Tibet into India and neighboring Nepal have slowed to a trickle, she added, sapping the vitality of the Tibetan emigre community in South Asia.
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TikTok won't put the platform out of business, but it will poach more and more would-be YouTubers, sapping the lifeblood of the video giant over time.
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Some people have accused Simeone of having limited patience with young players, but it's more a case of youngster struggling to adapt to his energy-sapping approach.
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Mr. Jeffries said the shock election of Mr. Trump was more important than any endorsements in sapping the energy for a major squabble between Democrats in 2017.
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Now experiments in permanent stimulus are sapping the process of creative destruction at the heart of any capitalist system and breeding oversize zombies faster than start-ups.
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Until the Apple Watch manages to constantly display the time without sapping the battery, a normal wristwatch is better for telling the time in all those scenarios.
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Economic analysts argue he has made erratic decisions, sapping investor confidence, and he has convinced no one that he has a strategy to deal with organized crime.
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Charles Peabody, analyst at Compass Point, said some investors had "underestimated" the profit-sapping impact of what is known in the jargon as a flattening yield curve.
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Menotti used to accuse Bilardo and his tribe of trying to create "useful idiots," players who would simply "obey and function," sapping the joy from the game.
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That should push Chinese steelmakers to use more of the material in coming years, potentially sapping demand for steel ingredient iron ore from the world's biggest metals consumer.
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Both incidents illustrate why sometimes it makes sense to be tolerant of opposing views, and other times it is imperative to separate yourself from potentially soul-sapping relationships.
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"TERMS AND conditions apply" vies for being the most morale-sapping four-word phrase of modern times, along with "The plane is delayed" and "You're trending on Twitter".
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Those chemical compounds, which are contained in grape stems, skins, and seeds, give dry wines, like Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc, their signature astringency, or moisture-sapping sensation.
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Also sapping prices was the dim outlook for oil demand growth in 2019 projected by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Friday, citing worsening prospects for global trade.
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The killer—unmasked almost immediately—is a vengeful young white man (Harry Treadaway) shuttling between a soul-sapping job and an unhealthy relationship with his mother (Kelly Lynch).
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Global PC shipments declined almost 10 percent in the first quarter, to their lowest since 2007, extending a persistent decline that's sapping growth at companies from Intel Corp.
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But Archer said it was unclear that leaving the EU would significantly reduce productivity-sapping regulation in the way in which some of its supporters said it would.
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SPNY declined 1.37 percent, following oil prices lower as traders weighed swelling U.S. inventories against possible renewed efforts by major oil producers to reduce a price-sapping glut.
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Strikes by French oil sector workers protesting proposed labour reforms spread to all the country's refineries, sapping petrol stations dry and creating delays for tankers at major ports.
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While the group sees electric cars and fuel efficiency sapping demand for gasoline, IEA thinks rising petrochemicals and jet fuel consumption will offset any weakness at the pump.
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However, Pacquiao finished in style, bloodying Thurman's nose further, making his opponent wince with a confidence-sapping body shot, and sending him back to his corner breathing heavy.
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Everyone in manufacturing has told him that this mania ignores the complexity of global supply chains and, in isolation, will simply weaken — and is already sapping — the sector.
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But, like most things this month, it won't be easy: Mercury will oppose Saturn and square Neptune on this date, sapping your energy and creating obstacles and confusion.
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I only need discipline for a month, so what free or cheap software would work to temporarily lock me out of the Facebook and other time-sapping sites?
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They watched as the Olympic flag was raised to the rafters to the sound of a little-known Greek composer's song, sapping the usual emotion from the proceedings.
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Perhaps it was no mistake Mr. Weckbach would name-drop a certain famed 13-mile German track that has quickly sent Teslas into a performance-sapping safe mode.
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A cascade of failures and errors by the Iowa Democratic Party delayed the release of official results, upending the nomination fight and sapping confidence in the process itself.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Overuse and climate change are sapping the Colorado river, source of a fifth of U.S. GDP and at least $1.3 trln of market value.
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These organizations — representing an alphabet soup of acronyms — frequently competed with one another for funding from progressive donors, sapping energy and scarce resources instead of supporting a common agenda.
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"The impact of falling prices is huge," Lucas Elizalde, a farmer from the northern province of Salta, told Reuters, adding that lower margins were sapping much of farmers' profits.
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Piscatella captures how the movement builds over time, and he's frank about behind-the-scenes despair and weariness sapping Scholarism's strength, and how personal determination buoys it back up.
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Lagarde told Reuters in an interview, however, that such tariff threats were sapping business and market confidence, and could slow growth that is currently expected to improve next year.
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Instead of one mistake becoming multiple spirit-sapping errors, they kept playing their game, rolling out four lines and wearing down the Boston Bruins one shift at a time.
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The bank, which in December hiked its key rate to a consumption-sapping, nearly nine-year high of 7.25 percent, said it expected a "nascent deceleration" in consumer spending.
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He arrived home Thursday after a soul-sapping week in which he lost phone service and didn't know for two days whether his wife and two kids were alive.
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What those might be, Tesla isn't saying, but manufacturers are clearly looking for ways to counter range-sapping cold weather, possibly by tweaking the way their onboard hardware operates.
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Ford, however, plans to cut fourth-quarter production in North America by 12.5 percent from a year earlier to keep dealers' lots from overflowing and avoid profit-sapping discounts.
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Three-quarters of China's steel enterprises were struggling with heavy losses in 2159-21 as a result of a price-sapping capacity glut and a slowdown in demand growth.
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If you approach them, the sound gets louder; if you touch them, they tear at your flesh, making you bleed and sapping your resources of bandages and health items.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices slumped on Thursday as the United States threatened more tariffs on China and traders concluded the probability of a recession sapping oil consumption had increased.
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In the same way that anti-depressants can make one feel like a ghost of their true self, so too was this lifestyle sapping the spark from my personality.
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Travel Tips If packed tourist traps, crowded markets and buzzing nightclubs aren't up your alley, these tips can help you enjoy your trip without sapping all of your energy.
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As the price of oil sank, sapping the economy, the crown prince laid out a sweeping plan to reform the economy, including increasing women's participation in the work force.
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That left a third for whom Trump was not a factor — and they voted Republican for the House by 52-44 percent, sapping some force from the blue wave.
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Nonetheless, the bulk of the play is devoted to watching the righteous folks of Slurry succumb, both instantly and oh-so-slowly, to an epidemic of soul-sapping greed.
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Analysts said that Trump's demands could cut Chinese exports and capital expenditure potentially sapping demand for machinery made by Japanese firms, many of which have substantial sales in China.
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And with that, Nadal, as he did during the entire span of a vintage and coldly efficient victory, had put his opponent on an energy-sapping, confidence-draining string.
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That has upended world supplies, sapping the market share of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which has throttled back supply to keep oil prices from collapsing.
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The country's economy has remained sluggish, however, despite hopes that growth would start to turn around as the year progressed, with high interest rates and stubborn inflation sapping economic activity.
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Of course he failed to mention how his own dominant platform is the attention-sapping, app gobbling elephant in the room crowding out the next generation of would-be entrepreneurs.
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Further sapping confidence over recent days has been a steady drip of economic data that has highlighted an underpowered world economy despite years of heavy stimulus delivered by central banks.
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The energy sector declined 21.68 percent, following oil prices lower as traders weighed swelling U.S. inventories against possible renewed efforts by major oil producers to reduce a price-sapping glut.
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It is easy to imagine a cycle in which the constant changes of leadership make policymaking even less consistent, further sapping faith in government and making politicians even more timid.
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Sanders and others say that the deal pits Americans against workers in low-wage countries, sapping what's left of industrial jobs and the basis of the middle and working classes.
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In the case of South Africa, climate models project that areas of tranquil high pressure will become more common, sapping the atmosphere of moisture and lift needed to produce rainfall.
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The influential Wall Street firm on Friday cut its full-year forecast from 2,200 to 2,000, citing a declining outlook for growth as well as a sapping of market liquidity.
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Unsurprisingly then, given its new, emollient incarnation, Rainbow is no longer threatening to cut off the ad industry's access to mobile users' eyeballs as payment for its data-sapping crimes.
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Similar patterns of abuse have since emerged at dioceses around the globe, undermining the church's moral authority and sapping its finances as it paid out billions of dollars in settlements.
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Fund managers and banks globally have long complained that stricter rules in the wake of the global financial crisis were driving up trading costs and sapping liquidity in bond markets.
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The US, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with crippling North Korea's economy and sapping it of the resources it needs to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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"Sapping snow," a magical hazard featured in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, is a vast seafloor cover of necrotizing material that operates much like the algae death layers that produce dead zones.
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Italy last completed a syndicated deal in January last year when it sold a 20-year nominal bond before a populist government came to power sapping appetite for Italian bonds.
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Lagarde told Reuters in an interview, however, that such escalating tariff threats were sapping business and market confidence, and could slow growth that is currently expected to improve next year.
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Appeals for calm after a terrorist attack in Strasbourg on Tuesday, cold weather, the approaching Christmas holidays and concessions by Mr. Macron are already sapping the enthusiasm of some protesters.
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Airlines were already scrambling to cut costs by reducing flights, offering employees unpaid, voluntary leave and freezing hiring, as the virus spreads and new travel restrictions are implemented, sapping demand.
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The bottom line: Big deals are the riskiest kind of transactions to strike — and the instability in Washington is sapping corporate boards of their confidence in making such hefty bets.
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Because Patrick hails from Warren's home state, he has built-in name recognition in New Hampshire, which shares its biggest media market with Boston, potentially sapping Warren and Vermont Sen.
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The International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that escalating tariff threats were sapping business and market confidence, and could slow global growth that is currently expected to improve next year.
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The new partnership with Honda resulted in multiple engine failures and morale-sapping grid penalties, but the signs this year are that reliability has improved and the car is more competitive.
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When it comes to finding sustainable ways to pursue these additional jobs or hustles, it can be challenging to ensure that extra work doesn't end up sapping all of your energy.
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That's why, even out of the gate, he says 5G will be dramatically faster and dramatically more responsive, to the point that bandwidth-sapping uses like streaming video will feel effortless.
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Download it: iOS and Android What it does: This meter predicts how much battery you have left on your phone, and also tracks how apps are sapping your device's precious energy.
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The group, together with Russia and other non-OPEC oil producers, agreed late last year to cut output by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) to reduce a price-sapping glut.
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Weak readings on manufacturing in Europe added to angst over world growth, as did a surprise slump in U.S. home sales which suggested rising mortgage rates were sapping demand for housing.
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The forces attacking Tokyo are sapping humans of their creative energy — eye-rollingly known as "performa" — and the young heroes take on the guise of idols in order to fight back.
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ACCORDING to one American stereotype, Europe is doomed to fail because it has made too many cultural concessions to Islam and too many ideological concessions to anti-business, enterprise-sapping socialism.
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Mainly, though, there has been Gervais himself, who seemed destined to become that most soul-sapping of clichés: the middle-aged man intent on sticking it to the bloody PC brigade.
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The stream of explanations for explanations for explanations—as, for example, in the Alien prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant—is sapping the mystery out of sci-fi, which is its soul.
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If we are not careful, we might overlook entirely the fact that Luka Modric, Real's diminutive Croatian playmaker, was consistently the most creative talent on this long and energy-sapping night.
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Here are the other surprise expenses that are sapping retirees' finances: "Travel is the most popular activity for retirees, but it costs them more than expected, " said Lord of Capital Group.
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South Africa is on the brink of prolonged economic downturn after data this month showed a second consecutive quarterly contraction to growth, with elevated political uncertainty sapping already weak business activity.
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Critics say cut-throat competition between China's cities and regions has caused price-sapping overcapacity in a wide range of sectors, including steel and solar - and electric cars could be next.
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And matters weren't helped much as volatility hovered close to the lowest levels on record, sapping the market of the price swings so crucial for active managers to prove their bonafides.
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Disney (DIS) shares have fallen more than 20% since the handover as the coronavirus forced the closing of theme parks, delaying the release of "Mulan" and sapping ESPN of live sports.
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Bingo. This fever of mistrust is the desired symptom of a powerful virus — a confidence-sapping worm of mutual suspicion — that Russia has planted in the operating system of American democracy.
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A tale spread by a group of grumpy (and probably well-off) boomers that took on a life of its own, sapping a generation — their own children's generation — of its dignity.
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A trade war is sapping confidence, Italy is again quarreling with the European Commission, German industry continues to post dismal figures, stocks are tumbling and the threat of a hard Brexit looms.
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The White House has also been bogged down in side battles over such issues as the size of the crowd at his inauguration to voter fraud conspiracies, sapping attention and draining aides.
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I do it both to support the community and a vibrant street life and because I think of a really good retail experience as something more than a soul-sapping transactional thing.
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Prices of goods ranging from processed food to medicines were starting to fall again, a government official briefing reporters on the data said, suggesting that weak consumption was sapping firms' pricing power.
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China made the pledge January 2016 as it bid to put an end to a price-sapping capacity glut that had left the country's massive steel sector mired in debt and losses.
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Weak readings on manufacturing in Europe have added to angst over world growth, as has a surprise slump in U.S. home sales, which suggested rising mortgage rates were sapping demand for housing.
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This event is a shocking consequence of these problems – problems that are sapping the readiness and combat performance of the Afghan security forces much faster than the U.S. military can build them.
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The sizable funding round arrived at a time when China's softening economy is sapping consumer confidence, but the company's two-pronged strategy makes sure it covers a broad range of consumer demands.
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" According to the hypothesis that they tested with the video itself, "short, attention-sapping clips of Technicolor liquids reacting to a variety of stress tests tickle the base nerves of the brain.
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The greenback added 0.2 percent at 112.260 yen, reversing losses suffered on Friday when the exchange of insults between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea heated up, sapping broader risk appetite.
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The greenback added 0.3 percent at 112.27 yen, reversing losses suffered on Friday when the exchange of insults between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea heated up, sapping broader risk appetite.
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He retired to the golf links, but with no structure to his days and no energy-sapping exercise to mitigate his symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, he acted with more impulsivity.
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The energy-sapping chemotherapy and radiation led her to give up a coveted though demanding job as a gerontologist and executive director of San Francisco Village, a nonprofit promoting aging in place.
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"Every day in the news we can see why this is not their priority -- you can see where all their energy is," he says, referring to the attention-sapping saga of Brexit.
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Under Apartheid, the McCormicks write, South African laws prevented black workers from striking—sapping whatever bargaining power they otherwise might have flexed—and also mandated specific wages and hours for many blacks.
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ALUMINIUM: A sharp fall in Japanese physical premiums for fourth-quarter shipments is the latest sign that aluminium is not immune from the demand weakness that is sapping the industrial metals complex.
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Real income in Russia has stagnated since Mr. Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, sapping domestic support for foreign interventions like Mr. Putin's campaign to prop up Syria's Bashar al-Assad.
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The attack in Manhattan lent fresh urgency to questions arising from the debate over social media's downsides: Is it time to put limits on speech online, sapping the internet's anything-goes ethos?
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In those environments, once you need to go farther than 35 miles and are managing power-sapping hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings, Warshaw, says, battery power alone won't do the trick.
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P.S.G., as it was all summer, was trying to keep track of the endless, spirit-sapping saga over Neymar's future, waiting impatiently for Barcelona to make plain its intentions toward the striker.
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Spain has said a desire to prevent this move from sapping morale around the project was one of its reasons for offering to host after riots over inequality prompted Chile to withdraw.
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He said they amounted to this: The fees charged by brokerages, fund companies and advisers were sapping the returns of millions of hard-working people who were trying to save for retirement.
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Surging Permian production has overwhelmed pipelines and forced producers to sell crude at a deep discount, sapping cash and profits of independents who, unlike the majors, don't own their own pipeline networks.
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The allegations, which Fillon rejects, are sapping the popularity of the former prime minister and could shake up the April-May presidential contest, for which he has so far been the clear favourite.
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The government is facing discontent over issues including trade talks with South American countries and an overhaul of subsidies for disadvantaged farm belts, sapping goodwill created by legislative proposals for fairer farmgate prices.
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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Strikes by French oil sector workers protesting proposed labor reforms spread to all the country's refineries on Tuesday, sapping petrol stations dry and creating delays for tankers at major ports.
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ENERGY-SAPPING INDUSTRY Cryptomining consumes large quantities of energy because it uses computers to solve complex math puzzles to validate transactions in the cryptocurrency, which are written to the blockchain, or digital ledger.
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Conservative news outlets — most notably Breitbart News Network, the right-wing populist enclave — are perfecting the art of sapping Democratic stars' name recognition and repurposing their words and actions into pro-Trump material.
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The potato, which most believed was not only bad for one's health but bad for agriculture, sapping nutrients from the soil, would need a major marketing makeover to garner interest from the French.
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The country has managed to maintain high soybean inventories even as buyers shunned U.S. cargoes through the Brazilian shipments, and as African swine fever has decimated pig herds, sapping demand for animal feed.
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But as the coronavirus continues to fan out across the globe, sapping economic activity, analysts were doubtful that a cut in production of that size would be enough stem the slide in prices.
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Managers sometimes load up on lots of stocks — the average actively managed stock fund tracked by Morningstar holds 164 — to diversify their holdings, preventing a few bad bets from sapping the overall return.
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Gyration and business gyration — they need more capacity than they had a month ago and at a point where meetings are sapping every ounce of energy and time that needs to be remixed.
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In the process Shopify glided stealthily into the e-commerce big leagues without going head to head with Amazon, as Walmart, Target and other big retailers have done, sometimes with soul-sapping results.
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Moyo said the talks would deal with all "hard issues" and were supported by President Emmerson Mnangagwa - who last month described EU and U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe as a "cancer" sapping the economy.
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Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai Securities Ltd, said a series of controversial policies unveiled by U.S president Donald Trump raised fears of rising trade and political frictions, which is sapping investor confidence.
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But whenever societies get turned upside down, wrecking the economy and sapping the resources to post guards at archaeological sites, a rise in looting occurs—especially in countries with a history of plundering.
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Chinese leaders argue that their vast country cannot risk the morale-sapping confusion that might be sown by a free press, independent courts or even civic groups with the right to criticise official wrongs.
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In the process, they have darkened the outlook for the field in general, sapping public trust in self-driving cars and delaying the rollout of what many hope will be a life-saving technology.
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They might find themselves in technical control of the military, but have their legitimacy questioned by a faction of right-wing generals, followed by internal skirmishes on US bases aimed at sapping their power.
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Foreign manufacturers of consumer electronics and other goods already are shifting investments to Southeast Asia to cut costs, thereby hurting demand for Chinese parts suppliers and sapping revenue they would use to develop technology.
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When you're ready, the experience puts you in the middle of outer space, standing among the stars, looking at Earth as Marvel's Galactus might as he considers sapping our planet of its natural resources.
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In one of the most infamous attempts to slay a hurricane, Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir led a US military experiment in 280 to seed Hurricane King with ice in hopes of sapping its vigor.
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Another problem with the traditional fashion calendar is how it forces designers to put out four or more full collections a year, sapping designers of creativity and creating a huge financial burden for brands.
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The story of an eco-terrorist organization trying to stop a megacorp from sapping the planet dry is a story that has even more relevance, given how we've come to better understand climate change.
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If the United States and North Korea agree to a comprehensive agreement with phased implementation, diplomacy can be expected to trudge on slowly, without sapping the Korean People's Army nuclear or conventional military forces.
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Negative news around Brexit negotiations and surveys indicating a slowing British economy are sapping investor confidence in sterling GBP=D3, with it dipping 0.8 percent to $1.4005 on Monday, its lowest since Jan. 30.
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The largely volunteer campaign to save Bali's sea turtles is a rare success story on this popular tourist island, which struggles with environmental challenges, including shoreline trash, eroding beaches and soul-sapping traffic jams.
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In one of the most infamous attempts to slay a hurricane, Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir led a US military experiment in 22007 to seed Hurricane King with ice in hopes of sapping its vigor.
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Consumer and healthcare firms, which have been battered in recent weeks by a confidence-sapping vaccine scandal, also rebounded, with the consumer staples sector up 0.4 percent and the healthcare sub-index up 0.8 percent.
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But the real challenges for auto groups like the Mercedes maker are far bigger and include a margin-sapping shift to electric vehicles and potentially declining car ownership from the growth of ride-hailing apps.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne told voters that leaving the European Union would do permanent damage to the country's economy, costing them thousands of pounds a year and sapping funding for public services.
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However, protests over the benefits of investment failing to reach the hinterland have dogged the government, sapping enough support from the ruling coalition for the opposition to claim it can now command a parliamentary majority.
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But in Missouri, despite statewide support for Trump, voters this August rejected a measure passed by Republican lawmakers that would have let people opt out of paying union dues, sapping organized labor of its muscle.
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Kramer said supporters of a British exit wrongly assumed that EU workers were sapping their resources, noting that most such workers had in fact paid taxes and rent, and generally contributed to the UK economy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Saturday that IMF members discussed ways to increase "peer pressure" on countries to follow and improve global trade rules to reduce growth-sapping uncertainty.
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The crown scaled its highest against the euro in more than a month, after inflation rose more than expected in July, sapping expectations of interest rate cuts in the near term from the Norges Bank.
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The arrival of reinforcements is likely to sustain Kurdish resistance, bog down the Turkish forces and prolong a conflict that is sapping the resources of military powers that rival him for control of Syrian territory.
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Last October his party published "Bridge to the Future", an 18-page manifesto that laments the enterprise-sapping effects of Brazil's overlarge state, which claims 36% of GDP in taxes while providing poor public services.
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More generally, one basic insight seems lost on them so far: The U.S. must remain committed to an open, rules-based global economy to prevent a chronic skills gap from sapping American jobs and competitiveness.
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Moreover, newer and smaller [and more] fuel-efficient planes, such as Boeing's 787 jetliner, are making non-stop flying between Europe and Asia competitive once more, sapping demand for connecting flights via the Middle East.
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In "Disco Pigs," this perspective is a folie à deux, the shared and sustained creation of a lad and lass who grew up together from infancy in a soul-sapping council estate in County Cork.
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To abandon more than three-quarters of a million Dreamers simply because their parents entered this country illegally would not only be a travesty, but also a sapping of one of our greatest potential resources.
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Long Now says the San Francisco space is designed to push the mind away from our attention-sapping present, and this is apparent from the 10,000-year clock prototypes to the menu of ''extinct'' cocktails.
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Tottenham received the toughest draw of the five Premier League clubs in the group stage, but at least it avoided the kind of energy sapping midweek journey to Eastern Europe that many top coaches disdain.
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Unlike in the Nixon or Clinton cases, when the House voted overwhelmingly and on a bipartisan basis to authorize investigations, a vote now would almost certainly be strictly partisan, potentially sapping the investigation of momentum.
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Last year's runner up Kevin Anderson, who was pushed to five sets by American Ryan Harrison in an energy-sapping first round encounter, will find himself back on court 17 to take on Jeremy Chardy.
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The agreement, in which JPMorgan will use Virtu's technology and market access, came at a time when many banks have been looking to cut costs to help counter the revenue-sapping low-interest rate environment.
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Decades of conservative critics have decried cash programs like Aid to Families With Dependent Children or Social Security Disability Insurance, as vigor-sapping, soul-deadening subsidies for moochers, economic disasters that stunt growth and encourage sloth.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is keen for Japan Inc to hike salaries in a bid to support the economy and overcome almost two decades of growth-sapping deflation, but real wages have been largely flat.
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Penny and company have forced these men to grow up and engage with the wider world, and in the process, they have made them noticeably happier, without sapping their senses of humor or their fanboy passions.
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So this is yet another reason to yearn for a truly tight labour market: when firms cannot spare an idle moment they might get serious about trimming productivity-sapping intrusions from the workplace, to everyone's benefit.
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Yet concerns that fund managers had piled into the same stocks and stretched their valuations helped prompt a selloff that began Friday and continued through Monday, sapping 5 percent or more from companies such as Apple.
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other non-member producers are cutting output by about 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) until next March to get rid of a price-sapping supply glut.
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The president's critics will complain that his meddling in car companies' supply chains comes with costs, and that he is both bringing higher prices for consumers and sapping the competitiveness of America as an export base.
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"Cities point to the negative impact of current laws, illegal trade in public places that is increasingly disruptive and makes people feel unsafe, and resource-sapping efforts to curb drug sales in urban areas," it added.
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But remember to log off if it all feels like it's too much, and staring down at a little screen may be helping to inform you but is doing so by sapping you of energy. Pause.
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The Introverted Traveler: Advice for the Quiet Among Us If packed tourist traps, crowded markets and buzzing nightclubs aren't up your alley, these tips can help you enjoy your trip without sapping all of your energy.
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Worries that the sapping heat that has enveloped France over the last week or so might ruin the occasion, draining the players, can probably be set aside: It is warm, but the edge has been blunted.
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The on-again, off-again nature of the trade conflict between the world's two largest economies is sapping business confidence and making it difficult for companies to know how and when to invest in the future.
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The spread of Covid-0.13, as the disease is formally known, is unsettling supply chains, sapping sales of some products, throwing travel into chaos, freaking out the stock markets, and intensifying fears of a global recession.
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The euro's rally at the start of 2018 has sputtered recently, bringing some relief to a central bank highly sensitive to any sign the strength of the single currency is sapping the competitiveness of its exporters.
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A global trade war is sapping confidence, Italy is once again in conflict with the European Commission, German industry is continuing to post dismal figures, stocks are tumbling and the threat of a hard Brexit looms large.
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Fully three-quarters of Japanese companies expect no expansion in world trade, highlighting festering anxiety that Trump's fiery protectionist rhetoric during campaigning might turn into growth-sapping policies through his four-year term that begins in January.
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Drought and climate change, however, are feared to not be the only culprits, with mining of lignite, or brown coal, sapping underground waters and pitting residents against major energy company ZE PAK's proposal for another new mine.
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China announced at the beginning of this year that it would close 100-150 million tons of crude steel capacity within three to five years in a bid to tackle price-sapping capacity gluts in the sector.
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But it is feeding deeper doubts about the Fed's ability to lever inflation up to its 2% goal, a level the central bank says is needed to cushion against growth-sapping deflation in a future economic downturn.
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Japan Inc warns of global trade contraction under Trump presidency: Reuters pollFully three-quarters of Japanese companies expect no expansion in world trade, highlighting anxiety that Trump's protectionist rhetoric during campaigning might turn into growth-sapping policies.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Saturday that IMF members discussed ways to increase "peer pressure" on countries to follow and improve global trade rules to reduce growth-sapping uncertainty.
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Hebei province, where Tangshan is located, has pledged to shut 14.22 million tonnes of capacity in 2016 as part of the country's efforts to tackle a price-sapping glut, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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The carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the atmosphere at a rate of 2.4 million pounds per second is sapping the nutrients in a major food source for 2 billion people, a big study published Wednesday found.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Fears of inflexibility and rising costs are sapping enthusiasm for the London Metal Exchange's new suite of gold contracts, potentially leaving the exchange reliant on the threat of an increasing regulatory burden to drive uptake.
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But with tens of billions of dollars already invested, the oil majors behind Gorgon and other Australian LNG projects have little choice but to plough on, consigning the market to profit-sapping surplus for the foreseeable future.
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Heavy industrial Liaoning, home to struggling state steel mills like the Anshan Group and the Benxi Iron and Steel Group, is a key part of China's strategy to tackle price-sapping overcapacity in the coal and steel sectors.
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But critics say that this would come at a great risk and cost to the EU itself, potentially extending the uncertainty for years and sapping time, resources and energy from the bloc that would be better used elsewhere.
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Compliance with the deal has been high so far but OPEC production hit a 2017 peak in July, in part on increased output from Libya and Nigeria, which were exempted from the pact due to production-sapping unrest.
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While embroiled in the most vivid display of great power rivalry since the Cold War, the U.S. and China are both also battling a largely invisible force — relentlessly unfavorable demographics that are sapping their long-term economic vitality.
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Investors betting on a stronger U.S economy and higher interest rates have sought out the dollar, sapping any benefits gold and other so-called "safe havens" might have gained from global trade tensions between the world's largest economies.
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As Brexit is sapping EU resources, the leaders will also turn to other pressing issues on Thursday and Friday, including the state of their economies, ties with China, climate change and ringfencing the European elections from illegitimate interference.
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The National Hurricane Center pinned the weakening on hostile upper level winds that are causing the storm to tilt vertically, like a wobbly spinning top, sapping its ability to maintain a clear eye and vigorous thunderstorms surrounding it.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in testimony on Capitol Hill this week, fed that narrative with promises to "act as appropriate" amid rising trade tensions between the United States and its biggest trading partners that is sapping business confidence.
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But she was broken in the fifth and seventh games in a match that seemed sure to drag on, never a pleasant prospect for a 36-year-old who struggles with Sjogren's syndrome, an energy-sapping autoimmune disease.
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Chris Johnson, a former top CIA China analyst now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Michael Morell on the Intelligence Matters podcast that protest leaders realize violence by more "hardcore" elements risks sapping western support.
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If Trump was serious about his accusation of widespread voter fraud stealing his popular vote win and sapping away his legitimacy, he should be demanding recounts in all fifty states and Washington D.C. He won't, because he can't.
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However, it proved to be too little, too late, and Nurmagomedov was once again on top in the fourth, sapping McGregor's energy with his excruciating pressure before the choke ended the fight 3:03 into the fourth round.
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Nearly a decade of free money helped these countries through the worst of the crisis, but at a heavy cost for savers, sapping earnings from traditional investments such as bonds and pushing many to look at riskier, unconventional alternatives.
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Munich-based Infineon, despite its record of outgrowing the market, has lowered its revenue and margin guidance for this year twice, with a slowdown in the Chinese auto market in particular sapping demand and causing inventories to pile up.
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If the SPD's resistance to another identity- and vote-sapping turn with the chancellor forces the country back to the urns, she may conclude that she has become an impediment to Germany's dearly-cherished stability, and make her exit.
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China has pledged to cut 100-150 million tonnes of crude steel production and 500 million tonnes of coal production in the next three to five years as it tries to tackle price-sapping capacity gluts in the sectors.
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The debilitating choice is to allow the West-Coates debate to turn into an energy-sapping distraction from the entrenched issues of race, war and democracy that both men have devoted their lives to addressing in word and deed.
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The DNC's cash struggles have become an ongoing worry for Democratic strategists — especially with the prospect of a long, expensive primary sapping their eventual nominee's resources and putting them at a disadvantage heading into the general election next summer.
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Talks between U.S. and Chinese officials in Washington over trade will continue on Thursday, although most analysts do not expect much headway to be made, with risks growing that the conflict will descend into a growth-sapping tariff war.
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"Oil bulls can't seemingly catch a break after the rally sapping surprising build in the American Petroleum Institute oil inventory survey has throttled WTI upward momentum dead in its tracks," said Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific market strategist at AxiTrader.
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What's much more likely is that a Mattis candidacy would result in a Clinton landslide, as him sapping votes from Trump makes it easier for her to carry a plurality in swing states and even some red-leaning ones.
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A few right-wing cable-news voices are also heard taking shots at Mister Rogers's belief in the specialness of everyone, which they take as wishy-washy, character-sapping progressivism rather than a straightforward gloss on basic Christian teaching.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) plans to cut spending by up to 22016 billion ringgit ($20163 billion) over the next four years and review its business structure in response to the profit-sapping slump in oil prices.
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Fry, who earned a degree in psychology from Baylor University in Texas in 2177, did everything he could to get an edge at Iowa, like painting the visiting team's locker room pink in the hope of sapping opponents' confidence.
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In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt invited representatives from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to the White House, and they agreed on significant rule changes—including the forward pass—that were intended to make the game safer without sapping its vitality.
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Talks between U.S. and China officials in Washington over trade will continue on Thursday, although most analysts do not expect much headway to be made, with the risks growing that the conflict descends into a growth-sapping tariff war.
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The prospect of import tariffs could damage the U.S. economy by raising costs for U.S. manufacturers and consumers, while prompting its trading partners to impose their own levies on U.S. exporters, increasing their costs also and sapping overseas demand.
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As tensions subside and the country pumps closer to normal levels, another dilemma looms for the producer group as it continues efforts to eradicate a price-sapping oil glut - how to count Nigeria's crude output without mixing in condensates.
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Russia's form over the last two years, though, has been patchy: the occasional creditable result, like a draw against Spain, but sapping setbacks, too, including a heavy defeat against Ivory Coast and a disappointing display in the Confederations Cup.
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They will argue that if Republicans are to win, they need to channel Trump's strong stances on immigration and political correctness and start taking principled stands against the sellouts and incompetents who are sapping America of its potential greatness.
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"Oil bulls can't seemingly catch a break after the rally sapping surprising build in the American Petroleum Institute oil inventory survey has throttled WTI upward momentum dead in its tracks," said Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific market strategist at AxiTrader.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced two former lawmakers to four weeks in jail for unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, further sapping the energy of political activists in the Chinese-ruled territory.
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Laird served as defense secretary at a time when the Vietnam War, escalated by Republican Nixon's Democratic predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, was provoking huge domestic protests in the United States, sapping American financial resources and killing tens of thousands of U.S. troops.
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For a start, the Russian version of state capitalism is a rent-seeking, productivity-sapping licence for the clique that surrounds him to steal freely from the national coffers—which is one reason why Chinese investment in Russia is rather limited.
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BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron urged the European Commission on Thursday to do more to curb an influx of low-paid east Europeans working on temporary assignment in France, warning that it was sapping support for the European Union.
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To crush a black market that flourished in the uncertainty, the central bank restricted forex movements, sapping dollar liquidity from the market and making it harder to open letters of credit and clear imports, which have piled up at ports.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stan Wawrinka outslugged Japanese sixth seed Kei Nishikori 4-6 7-211 215-24 23-23 in energy-sapping humidity at Flushing Meadows on Friday to set up a U.S. Open final against world number one Novak Djokovic.
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Early 90s: Fed funds rates were also rising in the months leading up to the recession; but one can also argue the culprit was the runup in oil prices that resulted from the Gulf War, sapping spending power and consumer confidence.
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Data on Tuesday showed homebuilding rose in October on a rebound in multi-family starts but construction of single-family homes fell for a second straight month, underscoring how rising mortgage rates and rising home prices have been sapping demand.
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China has pledged to cut 100 million to 150 million tonnes of crude steel production and 500 million tonnes of coal production in the next three to five years as it tries to tackle price-sapping capacity gluts in the sectors.
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The drop would drag down China's pork output by 30 percent in 2019 from last year, Rabobank said in a statement late on Thursday, boosting demand for meat imports and sapping appetite for animal feed made from commodities like soybeans.
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Wall Street and some regulators have said the standard is too constricting, leaving banks vainly trying to separate accounts that may not actually take risky bets and sapping liquidity in some markets because bank dealers are put off from participating.
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Opinion polls suggest the favorite to win the mayoral vote is the 5-Star's candidate, Virginia Raggi, who hopes to benefit from a string of corruption scandals that have hit the city in recent years, sapping support from the traditional parties.
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As part of its efforts to curb soaring corporate debt and tackle price-sapping capacity gluts in sectors such as steel and coal, China has promised to improve bankruptcy procedures and allow vast numbers of loss-making "zombie" companies to close.
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BUENOS AIRES, April 4 (Reuters) - Argentine unions, small firms and activists took to the streets in central Buenos Aires on Thursday to protest austerity measures under President Mauricio Macri, which they blame for amplifying hardships for workers and sapping economic growth.
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Economies are shifting from industry to services; advances in logistics and technology, such as near-shoring and 3-D printing, are making it more practical to manufacture things in the rich world; recycling drives are sapping the incentive to import.
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Where it went wrong, or almost went wrong, for Barcelona was back in April, when that attacking trio flew halfway across the world to play energy-sapping World Cup qualifying games, Messi for Argentina, Neymar for Brazil and Suárez for Uruguay.
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Consider these facts: Trust-sapping failures of the web were a dominant theme of 2628, with fake social media accounts, identity theft, online fraud and false news all contributing to a sense that our digital life is a tangle of lies.
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The Warriors won Game 2 when Curry erupted for 23 points in 23 minute 23 seconds of the third quarter, the kind of spirit-sapping spurt that has crushed most opponents, amazed fans and left Kerr shrugging with a wry smile.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are not only devastating the economies gripped by fighting, but are sapping growth in neighboring countries and those hosting millions of refugees, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday.
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With a 5 percent fall in crude prices sapping risk appetite across markets, investors sought refuge in the yen, which hit a three-year high against the euro and traded close to a 1-1/2-year high against the dollar.
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The rule strikes at the core of what makes this program a public health success story — the atmosphere of expertise, confidentiality and understanding that is so important to patients seeking such intimate care — while also sapping the program's scarce resources.
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The ECB's "steady as she goes" message came after weak euro zone economic data this week added to angst over world growth, and a surprising slump in U.S. home sales, which suggested rising mortgage rates were sapping demand for housing.
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But as the coronavirus continues to fan out across the globe, sapping economic activity, analysts were doubtful that a cut in production of as much as one million barrels a day would be enough to stem a weekslong slide in prices.
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In a recent Financial Times op-ed, Mr. Moritz argued that Silicon Valley had become slow and spoiled by its success, and that "soul-sapping discussions" about politics and social injustice had distracted tech companies from the work of innovation.
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At that time, oil prices had been hit hard following the eruption of a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia after the two nations failed to come to an agreement to curb supply with the coronavirus outbreak sapping demand.
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After two energy-sapping days of climbs in the Alps, Froome and his rivals had their sights set instead on the time trial on Saturday in Marseille that will determine the podium order before the race ends in Paris on Sunday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. refiners ran full-tilt in the second quarter, fueled by cheap domestic crude and fat margins that should boost earnings, though their heavy activity could eventually saturate the market with gasoline, sapping profits down the road.
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China is in the middle of a program aimed at tackling price-sapping supply gluts in the coal sector, and aims to shut at least 500 million tonnes of production capacity by the end of the decade, with smaller mines shut or consolidated.
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Then, of course, the president allegedly leaned on Comey to stop the investigation into Flynn, fired Comey, issued contradictory explanations for the firing, implied he taped his conversations with the FBI director, and is now in an energy-sapping public feud with him.
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NEW YORK, July 19 (Reuters) - U.S. refiners ran full-tilt in the second quarter, fueled by cheap domestic crude and fat margins that should boost earnings, though their heavy activity could eventually saturate the market with gasoline, sapping profits down the road.
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With the fall in crude prices sapping risk appetite, investors sought refuge in the yen, which hit its highest against the euro since April 4, 2013 — the day the Bank of Japan launched its massive asset buying programme — before easing back a little.
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A ministerial committee from OPEC and non-OPEC countries, which is headed by Gulf OPEC member Kuwait, meets in Russia on July 24 to discuss compliance with the cuts, from which Nigeria and Libya are exempt due to years of output-sapping unrest.
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The group join a list of more than a dozen other protest leaders and pro-democracy politicians jailed since 2014 in court cases that have dragged on for years, sapping the city's opposition movement of energy and dampening both public and media attention.
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In novels such as "The Door" and "Iza's Ballad", intimate dramas are entangled with public upheavals: the repressive governments and Nazi occupation of the 1930s and 1940s; the sudden annihilation of Hungary's Jews; the soul-sapping compromises and betrayals of the Stalinist era.
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Samsung executives said production problems for the curved screens and metal casings used in the Galaxy S6 edge led to a supply shortage for the device, leaving the firm unable to capitalize on the critical acclaim the phone received, sapping earnings momentum.
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"Senator Sessions is committed to immigration reform that serves the national interest — not the special interests — and that curbs the unprecedented flow of immigration that is sapping the wages and job prospects of those living and working here today," the site reads.
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Feng Fei, regarded as the architect of China's plans to curb profit-sapping capacity gluts in both steel and coal, said during a press briefing in Beijing that he remained confident China would reach its target of 45 million tonnes for 2016.
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As it steps up its efforts to deal with price-sapping capacity gluts in industrial sectors, Beijing has promised to force through the closure of hundreds of "zombie" steel mills and will also make funds available to deal with laid-off workers.
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Even more satisfying must be the turmoil that has followed the US election, which makes democracy seem less appealing, potentially sapping some energy from demands for more democracy in Russia, where he has hollowed out of any semblance of democratic fair play.
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China has vowed to tackle price-sapping supply gluts in major industrial sectors and said in February it would close 100 million-150 million tonnes of steel capacity and 500 million tonnes of coal production in the coming three to five years.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell to a near two-year low in September and data for the prior three months was revised lower, the latest indications that rising mortgage rates and higher prices were sapping demand for housing.
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It was cold and wet and I am still a little out of shape—we're coming out of a particularly cold winter here in the Pacific Northwest—and for a second I felt a tightening in my chest, a sapping of the will.
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China has vowed to tackle price-sapping supply gluts in major industrial sectors, and said in February it would close 100 million to 150 million tonnes of steel capacity and 500 million tonnes of coal production in the coming three to five years.
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is lobbying oil ministers to agree next week on a nine-month extension to OPEC-led supply cuts, sources familiar with the matter said, as Riyadh seeks to ensure a price-sapping glut is eradicated.
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The agreement follows six months of government pressure on the producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), led by Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, Origin Energy and Santos Ltd, who have been blamed for sapping the local market of gas and driving up prices.
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"Russians aimed particular energy at activating conservatives on issues such as gun rights and immigration, while sapping the political clout of left-leaning African-American voters by undermining their faith in elections and spreading misleading information about how to vote," WaPo reports.
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But, at 32, the do-it-all quality of his play and the magnitude of his effort is finally taking its toll, exacerbated by the energy-sapping burden presented by Durant at both ends of the court, and by the Warriors over all.
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In a business where thin profit margins can incentivize restaurants to cut corners, Tim Ho Wan takes the unusual step of making everything the day it's served, so not a single rice roll has to endure a flavor-sapping stint in the fridge.
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The U.S. dollar weakened against a basket of major currencies, pressured by the sapping of safe-haven demand after the announcement of an initial trade deal between the United States and China and an election victory for Britain's Brexit-backing Conservative Party.
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Mike Moritz, a top partner at Silicon Valley's most successful venture capital firm, says that the local tech culture has descended into "soul-sapping discussions" about "the inequity of life," and compared it unfavorably with the work ethic in the Chinese tech scene.
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The country's democratic institutions survive and debate is often robust, but a relentless centralization of authority and a sapping of the strength of formerly relatively independent institutions – as, this month, the Central Bank of India – are warnings of potentially unchecked executive power.
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SYDNEY, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The dollar was on the defensive on Monday in light year-end trading after suffering a setback the previous session, as hopes of a U.S.-China trade deal lifted investors' risk appetite, sapping safe-haven demand for the greenback.
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"We built highways and railways and airports that literally carved up communities, leaving bulldozed homes, broken dreams, and, in fact, sapping many families of the one asset they had: their home," he said in a speech at the Center for American Progress.
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Charlie Dent, R-Pennsylvania, warned that Trump's comments and the White House's decision to dig in on the claims are undercutting the President's credibility and sapping his political capital at a time when he's trying to push a budget and health care overhaul through Congress.
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The PP was the only major party to increase its share of seats from December's inconclusive poll, sapping the power of a wave of new parties which had fed on years of deep recession and public anger over corruption scandals within the major parties.
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"All the while, he has aided and abetted the growth of budget-sapping corporate charters in the district even at the expense of knowingly poisoning the students and staff whose safety during the school day he is responsible for," Abeigon wrote in a statement.
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With uncertainty over the outlook for Brexit negotiations sapping broader demand for the pound with less than two months to go before Britain is due to leave the European Union, the currency rapidly fell more than half a percent against the dollar and euro.
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As the world's third-largest economy falters again - with a stronger yen gnawing at overseas profits and domestic consumption sapping companies' confidence to invest or sufficiently raise wages - firms that increased their prices in the hope of a sustained recovery are rethinking their strategy.
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Interestingly, research suggests that there is a particular dynamic at play between fake news and alternative facts: third parties, including the news media and respected individuals, can be effective antidotes to the toxicity of alternative facts, sapping their staying power and lessening their impact.
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But a combination of Democratic obstructionism, strife within the GOP on how to move on their core priorities, a slate of predetermined and energy-sapping issues, and a lack of leadership from the Trump administration is currently making life tough for Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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The Fed under Powell has been pulled in two directions by administration policies, with the recent tax cuts and extra government spending adding to growth at least for now, but the approach to trade raising risks of a growth-sapping downturn in global commerce.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Hebei, China's top steelmaking province, has pledged to close a total of 14.22 million tonnes of capacity in 2016 as part of the country's efforts to tackle a price-sapping glut in the sector, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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Conservatives like Charles Murray tend to blame either social welfare programs for sapping initiative and keeping black people poor, or black people themselves for being less intelligent than whites, or a "pathological" culture that now manifests itself in the white working class as well.
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China has vowed to tackle price-sapping supply gluts in major industrial sectors, and said earlier this month that it would close 100 million-150 million tonnes of steel capacity and 500 million tonnes of coal production in the coming three to five years.
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Nobody, of course, has done it before as often as the 18-time grand slam champion Federer himself, who admitted it "hurt" to miss out on competing on the sapping clay of the French Open when he knew he was fit and raring to go.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will aim to close more than 1,000 coal mines over this year, with a total production capacity of 58.5 million tonnes, as part of its plans to tackle a price-sapping supply glut in the sector, the country's energy regulator said.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban's combative style has served him well since he swept back to power in 2010 with a large majority and he won a second four-year term in 2014 but disputed education reforms seem to be sapping his support, Median said.
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It's only belatedly that one realizes that, much like the Abdominizer revealed, the real key to great abs or happiness might not be a plastic contraption, that these possessions don't show the life-sapping rituals of work and the weeks and months between checks.
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OPEC and industry sources told Reuters that the group and non-member oil producers were considering extending the global supply cut for nine months or more to avoid a price-sapping output increase in the first quarter of next year, when demand is expected to be weak.
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China has pledged to cut steel capacity by around 45 million tonnes this year, and by 140 million tonnes by 2020, in a bid to tackle a price-sapping annual surplus estimated at around 300 million tonnes, nearly double the annual output of the European Union.
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Granted, the conditions of the race were optimized for speed—Kipchoge had a phalanx of pacers blocking the wind for the majority of the race, and he ran on a loop with zero time-sapping, 211-degree turns—so it didn't count as an official record.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A return to good times for Europe's economy may be sapping will to reform the euro zone before talks even start, so investors will be watching closely next Friday when EU leaders discuss how to deepen cooperation to protect against any return to crisis.
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The commodities ETFs you need to know during choppy market10 new energy ETFs to play oil's recovery That price charts showed a near-inverse relationship between the two — especially starting in the fall — likely added to the speculation that bitcoin was sapping demand from the yellow metal.
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But the constant flippancy can also stop the viewer caring about what happens in the film, as well as sapping its momentum: "The Nice Guys" keeps grinding to a halt, and it badly needs some of Mel Gibson's manic "Lethal Weapon" energy to get it going again.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Stark divisions in the views of Bank of Japan board members were highlighted on Monday, with some defending unlimited easing of monetary policy and others arguing the BOJ had done enough – to the point of driving big market swings and sapping bond market liquidity.
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC and non-member oil producers are considering extending a global supply cut for nine months or more to avoid a price-sapping output increase in the first quarter of next year, when demand is expected to be weak, OPEC and industry sources said.
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With more than three quarters of firms suffering losses as a result of a price-sapping capacity surplus, China vowed in early 2016 to shut 150-150 million tonnes of annual production in five years in a bid to raise profitability and utilisation rates in the sector.
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Russia's form over the last two years, in a slate of warmup games, has been patchy at best: the occasional creditable result, such as a draw with Spain, but sapping setbacks, too, including a heavy defeat against Ivory Coast and a disappointing display in the Confederations Cup.
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In addition to running anywhere from 2 to 22020 miles each week at varying distance intervals and speeds as they prepared for New York, Abdirahman, Lagat and Barrios spent several afternoons each week in the gym to maintain the strength that age is naturally sapping from them.
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Subtler than its setting — largely in the courtroom of the Nuremberg Trials — would imply, its decision to make the major characters alter egos of Wagner and his wife, Cosima, nonetheless too simplistically suggested the composer's complicity in Nazi horrors, while also sapping the underlying story of interest.
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But now that it's become America's Dementor, sapping our opinions, data, and time for ad dollars, the value proposition seems more like a drug habit with diminishing returns, keeping people hooked to keep them pumping the platform with their thoughts and feelings, their buying and voting habits.
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BEIJING, Feb 22 (Reuters) - China will aim to close more than 1,000 coal mines over the course of this year, with a total production capacity of 60 million tonnes, as part of its plans to tackle a price-sapping supply glut in the sector, the country's energy regulator said.
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"It is my contention here that criticism, far from sapping the vitality of art, is instead what supplies its lifeblood; that criticism, properly understood, is not an enemy from which art must be defended, but rather another name—the proper name—for the defense of art itself," he writes.
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In a season where the most persistent criticism of The Walking Dead has been that the main characters survive tremendous ordeals that would claim the lives of most, sapping the show of whatever tension it still possesses, Carl's survival feels a little like rubbing salt in a wound.
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Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.
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Nishikori's quarterfinal foe will be No. 33-seeded and six-time champion Novak Djokovic, who overcame a couple of tumbles to the court and a series of energy-sapping baseline exchanges — one point lasted 42 strokes — to beat No. 15 Daniil Medvedev, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3.
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Sacramento Kings For all the reasonable rationalizations that can be offered for the Kings' plight, given their string of injuries (including health setbacks for De'Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley) and the effects of an energy-sapping October trip to India, no one in Sacramento wants to hear any of that.
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Liquidity isn't an immediate concern, analysts have said, but the new debt shows Boeing is shoring up its finances amid the cash-sapping fallout of the two crashes — one in Indonesia in October 2018 and another in Ethiopia in March last year — that killed all 346 people aboard the two flights.
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The last decade has seen security slowly ratcheted up, with many of the bigger venues compelled by police and local licensing boards to use a raft of ethically-dodgy measures to keep drugs out, including ID scanning, drug testing, sniffer dogs, intrusive searches, and wall-to-wall, budget-sapping CCTV systems.
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In one early passage, Roberson describes her revelation that all this emotional labor was sapping her brainpower: I came to this conclusion when a guy was giving me strange signals for months and I was using my brain to its full capacity trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
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With most of the country's steel and coal enterprises making losses in 2015, China promised in February to slash 500 million tonnes of coal production capacity and 100 million to 150 million tonnes of crude steel capacity over the next three to five years in a bid to reduce price-sapping supply gluts.
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But the racing series, which has attracted support from major automakers like Renault, Volkswagen's Audi division, Mahindra of India and Citroën, is also the place to test out new ways of addressing the unique challenges of battery-powered transportation: range, charging technology and management of the performance-sapping heat that bedevils electric cars.
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If the public feels that he is truly purging corruption that was sapping the system and doing so in a way that is transparent and makes clear to future Saudi and foreign investors that the rule of law will prevail, it will really instill a lot of new confidence in the system.
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Though traditional security analysts continue to worry about how U.S.-Chinese, U.S.-Russian or U.S.-Iranian tensions could unravel into armed conflict, the more likely outcome is a resource-sapping, continual competition that stops short of kinetics but involves information warfare, cyber assaults, and economic clashes ranging from trade wars to targeted sanctions.
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The threat posed by info-cyberwarfare on tech platforms that straddle entire societies and have become attention-sapping powerhouses — swapping out editorially structured news distribution for machine-powered content hierarchies that lack any kind of civic mission — is really only just beginning to become clear, as the detail of abuses and misuses slowly emerges.
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Senior administration officials told the newspaper that Trump suggested he did not understand the benefits of NATO and that he believed it was sapping the U.S. The president reportedly made the comments around last July's summit, where he roiled allies by criticizing Germany directly and questioning why other members did not spend more on defense.
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This year's Gates Letter – the annual mission statement of Bill and Melinda Gates — is shaped as a call to high school students to center their studies and careers on energy innovation and other ways to boost prospects for more than a billion people whose energy poverty locks them into an unhealthy and time-sapping scrabble for existence.
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The Ofcom report also charts a particular rise in the use of instant messaging in the UK, which is likely to be contributing to the feeling of being overwhelmed by time-sapping tech, given the ceaseless demands of open-ended real-time messaging chats which — unlike other comms technologies — don't have clear or natural cut-off points.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 85033 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), were largely supportive of each other, sapping the event of some tension.
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Mr. Pillsbury, the author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower," said there was a divide in the Chinese political establishment that mirrored the split in the United States between "globalists," who favor trade and a rules-based international order, and "nationalists," who argue that those things are sapping American strength.
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And while he says he hates to look back, he's spent decades trying to keep interest in Blade Runner alive, even though (or maybe because) his difficulties making the film—angry financiers, a bitter crew, endless energy-sapping delays—were so extensive they wound up filling an entire making-of book, as well as a three-and-a-half-hour documentary.
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It's what allowed Serena to come back after a horrible foot injury and pulmonary embolism kept her off the tour for almost a year in 2010-11 to win nine more majors (and counting) in her 30s; and it's what kept Venus coming back to the sport after she was diagnosed with the energy-sapping autoimmune disease Sjogren's Syndrome in 2011.
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Its first two seasons were oddly paced and imbalanced, sapping all momentum from the show by decisions that didn't end up working out so well — first in choosing to slow down the story so that the eponymous Runaways don't actually, well, run away until the first season finale, and then in choosing to focus on their parents just as much.
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So there is something striking about black culture's taking on "savage" as a concept, sapping its dehumanizing intent and allowing enough elasticity to include adventurous joshing and self-aggrandizing threat — from two black men starring in a very popular "Jumanji" reboot whose subtitle is "Welcome to the Jungle" to the romance series "Addicted to Savage: A Hood Love Story," to the 25-year-old Atlanta rapper Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, who makes grim, chart-topping music as 21 Savage.
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Reports that EU negotiators have increased their offer of market access for Mercosur beef have angered farmers in major European livestock producers such as France who say cheaper South American meat does not meet the same sanitary and environmental standards as in the EU. Concern over the Mercosur talks is adding to tensions in French agriculture, after plans to reshuffle subsidies for disadvantaged farm belts prompted protests in recent weeks, sapping goodwill created by government proposals for fairer farmgate prices.
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FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Italy's forwards bludgeoned Canada into submission and restored some order to the Rugby World Cup by scoring seven tries in a 48-7 victory in energy sapping humidity at Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium on Thursday, catapulting them to the top of Pool B. It was the second successive bonus-point victory for Conor O'Shea's side after a 203-22 win over Namibia last Sunday and all but assured them of third place in a pool that includes heavyweights New Zealand and South Africa.
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