And the cost saps budgets as surely as overcropping saps the soil.
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It just saps the heat right out of your bones.
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They view their voters, their viewers, as saps. Stooges. Suckers.
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They view their voters, their viewers, as saps. Stooges. Suckers.
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A disease slowly saps the life from a beloved brother.
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Trump specifically says they shouldn't—that saps our influence and injects
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Resisting temptations, or making tough decisions, saps this energy over time.
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That saps some money from the digital space, van Dreunen said.
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The SAPS did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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It's hard to weigh how much, but that really saps energy.
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"Loneliness saps vitality, impairs productivity and diminishes enjoyment of life," Drs.
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But who cares, other than some old, nostalgic saps like me?
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S. trade war saps demand in the world's second-largest economy.
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It saps Mr Trump's emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of urgency.
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Aviation experts say the hotter, thinner air saps power from airline engines.
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SAPs are not, contrary to Snowden's suggestion, a higher level of classification.
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"Protectionism saps trade, disrupts supply chains and raises import costs," Fox said.
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Somewhat miraculously, Solo saps both Lando and Donald Glover of any charisma.
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For those of us living here, the air pollution saps our strength.
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It is inflation that saps the appeal of fixed-interest investments like bonds.
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In business, alienation isn't an abstract, philosophical problem; it saps the bottom line.
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It robs families of their loved ones and saps resources, patience and finances.
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Being undersized saps productivity as firms lack the capacity to adopt new technologies.
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Unfortunately, the fussy drivetrain saps a lot of refinement out of the experience.
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That saps its ability to ship to other customers - such as India, or That saps its ability to ship to other customers - such as India, or customers in the United States - who would pay in cash, which PDVSA desperately needs.
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We could not possibly be taken the way those poor Madoff saps were, right?
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Many have left the country altogether, in a brain drain that saps economic growth.
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This gnaws at the scientific body politic, and saps resources, both financial and moral.
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Such negativity saps public confidence in their news sources as well as public officials.
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The world needs greater transparency to limit corruption that saps democracy and undermines development.
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A fatal disconnect between the visual and the vocal saps its tenderness (1:20).
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It saps meaning from politics, and it discourages good people from pursuing public service.
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For 70 minutes, Sale and Ortberg dispense advice to sorry saps in sad situations.
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But it has only 600 officers, compared with 18,000 for the SAPS in the city.
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I've signed up for a government program that lets saps like me skip the lines.
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It saps the skin and blood of dead things and turns them into macabre trees.
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Piracy remains an entrenched problem that saps profits from the music, film and publishing industries.
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Airlines around the world have cut back on capacity as COVID-19 saps travel demand.
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"The situation this morning saps the confidence of the City and the country," he told Reuters.
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"There's a horserace out there, and all of us saps are here watching it," Newell writes.
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Or West 4 Tattoo in NYC just makes bank selling the design to conspiracy theory saps.
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High wind shear tends to blow the tops off storms and saps them of their strength.
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A higher appetite for riskier assets such as stocks usually saps demand for safe-haven gold.
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Or it can be a horrible boondoggle that saps your savings and cracks your nest egg.
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The wave of retirees saps savings, shifting spending to health services and shrinking the labor force.
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He has to be one of the unluckiest saps to ever put on a pinkie ring.
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Batteries give life to Titans, so stealing one essentially saps away a portion of its health.
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The phenomenon isn't healthy because of how it saps the rest of the economy of resources.
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PTSD is a debilitating condition that saps the life and creativity of those who suffer it.
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The Oval Office, which can confer gravitas on a typical president, simply saps this atypical one.
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It saps our spirits, snatches away our hard-earned dollars, and kills our bodies and our souls.
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The Prinsloo case points to a broader problem: the rottenness of the South African Police Service (SAPS).
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If humans (or at least financial markets) are basically rational, then who are these saps buying Treasuries?
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But the continual death and resurrection, the trying it all again, that saps the heroism from it.
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When sample sizes are small, this fix is difficult, as halving the sample saps power from tests.
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No reason, unless it triggers a trend that saps affordable housing in underserved markets to accommodate tourists.
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It also saps the impact of each individual revelation when another one comes so quickly behind it.
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You could take this underlining as a validation of the show's importance, but it saps the drama.
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Illness saps their productivity and health care expenditure drains their savings, reinforcing a cyclic and generational poverty.
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Like those poor saps at HBO, Jordan's got his work cut out for him with this one.
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Image: Flickr/the_ewanMost foodies warn against storing tomatoes in the fridge, saying it saps them of their flavor.
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And if the pandemic sets off a global recession that saps demand for Chinese goods, resentment may build.
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The clues for ADAM, ITCH, DEAFEN, ROOSTS, SAPS and even little OBS all struck me as fun today.
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That crap causes the stuff on the bottom of the water to decompose and saps it of its oxygen.
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Should conservatism support free markets, even if that means people can readily buy pornography that saps their moral virtue?
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"An androgynous, hybrid, spurious revolt […] saps the foundations of the deadly rigidity of dichotomous thought," the show notes add.
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I can admit to having used SAPs in combat, and they provided a significant advantage in saving lives. 2.
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As these neurons die, it saps a person's physical strength, taking away their ability to walk, eat or breathe.
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Millions upon millions of dollars are lost yearly due to these scams—typically from saps like me and grandpas.
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It's like "an athlete who doesn't want to have an orgasm before a game: It saps you," she says.
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But the ham-fisted dialogue saps the energy from the images, drawing attention to the thinness of archetypal characters.
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In this rendering, the condom is kryptonite, a relic that saps the virile homosexual of his primordial sexual power.
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The saps who took the losses were counterbalanced by the lucky investors who got their money out in time.
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In the fine tradition of film noir saps, he hits the bars and runs smack into a femme fatale.
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The concern troll airs disingenuous worries, sows doubt, saps energy, has reservations, worries that things are going too far.
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At A Better Balance, we see firsthand how it derails careers, saps household income and pushes families into poverty.
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That general dynamic also saps away some tension regarding how his high-wire act is going to turn out.
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In response to the failings of the SAPS, the city of Cape Town has expanded the remit of its police.
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That's too bad for the poor saps who bet big on oil based on the news of that production pact.
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So I wondered how Billions, this show that saps our institutions for exhilarating melodrama, would incorporate the Donald Trump presidency.
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This assault saps economic growth, costs Americans jobs, weakens our military capability and undercuts a key American competitive advantage — innovation.
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An unpopular president provides a jolt of enthusiasm for voters in the opposite party and saps energy in his own.
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His book "Don't Get Mad, Get Even", told poor saps how they could legally retaliate when clods kept dumping on them.
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It is a departure from lavender and rose to an unfulfilled journey of unfamiliar notes: clays, stems, saps, places and moments.
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The left front kick to the body saps the strength of his opponents and draws awkward swings to keep him off.
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State of the Art In San Francisco, as in most cities, parking is an expensive daily grind that saps the soul.
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It can be a pleasure for adolescent brains with energy to spare, but hanging on to it later saps and rigidifies.
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And the superabundance of California wildfires only saps enforcement efforts by diverting National Forest Service personnel away from fighting illegal grows.
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Kids today are going to know a world more full of robots than any of us old saps like me can imagine.
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It saps them of their economic drive, which is the very attribute that makes immigrants such valuable assets in the first place.
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Everyone left for prom and I was one of those saps that stayed on campus and tried to get some extra money.
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The country needs effective government agencies to deal with those problems, but corruption saps the state's ability to improve people's well-being.
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A more appropriate goal — ensuring that businesses can survive longer than the coronavirus saps cash flow — can be achieved by providing loans.
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Keeping the settlement project in the West Bank saps Israel's resources, compromises its international legitimacy and injects negative norms into Israel proper.
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The film I always mention, that informed what I was trying to do, is "Saps at Sea," a Laurel and Hardy thing.
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Providing wealthy Americans with another tax dodge in the guise of "philanthropy," the tax credit saps meaningful investment in improving our schools.
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It's all fun and games until dynastic conflict pretty much destroys Rome and some poor saps have to mop up the blood.
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It's all fun and games until dynastic conflict pretty much destroys Rome, and some poor saps have to mop up the blood.
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But fed-up voters seem ready to upend an industry that saps their finances, wastes their time and doesn't deliver particularly good care.
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They were there to demand a real end to the corruption that pervades their political culture and saps their economy and their democracy.
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AX) abrupt cuts were accompanied by warnings of a A$75 million ($49 million) earnings hit as the global health scare saps demand.
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Low unemployment saps the incentive for rapid economic change, and Austria's otherwise abundant wealth has congealed around a set of relatively conservative investment values.
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They then thoughtfully supplied the poor saps in their charge with a flimsy, slapdash account of what happened to supplant their now-vanished memories.
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And there are the saps like me, for whom watching Love Actually is a yearly ritual on par with birthday cake and spring cleaning.
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McDermott, who stepped down as SAPs CEO two weeks ago, affirmed that goal after Donahoe introduced him to analysts on the ServiceNow's earnings call.
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As some of the above reporting makes clear, work too often accomplishes precisely the opposite of what religion promises: It saps meaning from life.
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In the film, power is expressed through an electrified grid where sad saps battle it out to the death, or eventual glory (or both).
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With higher absorbency, the pad can be rid of SAPs, or superabsorbent polymers, and other absorbency-offering chemicals that research has linked to TSS.
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Hormones do affect cognition, and, as anyone who has ever done shift work or had jet lag knows, sleep deprivation saps our mental abilities.
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Whereas the SAPS, as the primary law enforcement agency in the country, number around 22,000 and answer only to the national executive: the ANC.
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Virgin Australia's abrupt cuts were accompanied by warnings of a A$75 million ($49 million) earnings hit as the global health scare saps demand.
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In Taylor Mac's new play, a follow-up to Shakespeare's plasma-spattered "Titus Andronicus," those saps are played by Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin.
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It might not have been Popovich's objective, but any sequence that saps Harden's energy is a convenient side effect the Spurs will happily take.
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China is the world's top consumer of metals such as copper and any sign of weakness in its economy saps demand for the industrial metals.
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That increase saps him of efficient shots near the rim, as he's shooting only 37 percent of his shots there versus 55 percent last year.
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"When your boss has the attention span of a fly, it not only saps your motivation; you feel like you're spinning your wheels," she says.
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Infinite ease quickly becomes the path of least resistance; it saps our free will, making us submit to someone else's guess about who we are.
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It saps the life out of the farm and the family that lives there and then it eventually returns to space after it wreaks havoc.
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In recent months, the debt crisis has threatened a deepening humanitarian crisis as hospitals close wards, social services decline and emigration saps more economic activity.
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He's alert to the contradictions of capitalism: that its success at generating wealth and comfort saps the virtues required for self-control and limited government.
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The tension and the mistrust, despite the efforts of the Metro to work on a more personal level than the SAPS, is clear to see.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - A major rift between Saudi Arabia and Russia has sent oil prices plummeting just as the Covid-19 outbreak saps demand.
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Some also offered it as proof that a capitalist society allows men and women to flourish, while communism crushes the soul and saps the spirit.
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Rituals allow you to let go of outmoded perspectives, put down emotional energy saps, and meet people from a place of openness and empathy, she says.
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Sleep deprivation is a vexing health problem — it saps you of physical and emotional wellness, and there's no one-size-fits-all cure for it, either.
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Such deals often suit both sides—the buyer gets the innovation and the startup makes a lucrative exit—but the practice saps dynamism from the economy.
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A beefed-up competition policy could reduce industrial concentration, which saps the economy of dynamism while focusing the gains from growth in fewer firms and places.
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I believe it is virtually certain we will continue human space exploration — eventually — unless a major global disaster saps our resources or will to do so.
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Commuter-rail projects are outside Byford's ambit, but the M.T.A.'s ineptitude, or worse, on large projects saps the credibility of everyone working under its aegis.
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The consumer devices are not regulated because they are not, strictly speaking, hearing aids but instead are personal sound amplification products, or PSAPs (pronounced PEE-saps).
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And from the "ground zero" vantage point of Houston, it was also clear how the divisive tribalism that infects Washington, D.C. saps this traditional American strength.
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But on another point, Ng is right: Polls show Americans tend to be optimistic that this trend won't kill their jobs, just those of other poor saps.
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It's hard to blame the filmmakers for trying, since the movie works from the well-established premise that people are saps for a tearjerker involving a mutt.
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But it is still way below prices nearing $200 a tonne seen a few years ago, as a slowdown in China's economy saps growth in steel demand.
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That saps its ability to ship to other customers - such as India, or customers in the United States - who would pay in cash, which PDVSA desperately needs.
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Carter Burwell's score is a retread of Carol (2015) and a patchwork of orchestral and country music that saps whatever mood Three Billboards is trying to sustain.
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But after 26 years, Glenn is retiring because his multiple sclerosis, the insidious disease that saps his strength but not his spirit, commands more of his attention.
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The South African Police Service (SAPS) said in a statement they moved in to evict around 300 people from the area in accordance with a court order.
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The scene plays as light comedy, but it's also so believable, in a "poor working saps" kind of way, that we are utterly immersed, all disbelief suspended.
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In Taylor Mac's new play, a follow-up to Shakespeare's plasma-spattered "Titus Andronicus," those saps are played by Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen, with Julie White.
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If that happens, California residents would no longer voluntarily plunge themselves into darkness earlier than necessary each fall, like the rest of us saps are forced to do.
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Unless the processor or monitor (or both) is updated, this will continue to be a bad buy—a laptop purchased by poor saps who don't know any better.
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If Apple customers see a zero-sum game, they might assume that attention paid to emerging mobile platforms saps interest and energy in venerable platforms like the Mac.
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Why it matters: Upcoding affects everyone — it saps money from the taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid programs and could lead to higher premiums for people with commercial insurance.
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Related: Pixar-esque Short Shows How Society Saps Your Creativity Dude, Wes Anderson's New Movie Is Coming Out on 4/20 Ever Spaced Out While (Not) Doing Homework?
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Miranda merely submits to a series of impassioned monologues, a format that saps the show of the energy that would have been generated by back-and-forth exchange.
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As JP Smith puts it, the SAPS have forced them to "reinvent the wheel," with R46 million set aside by the city last year just to combat gangs.
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If the budget is a basket case while the economy does well, what will happen when a slowdown saps tax revenues and raises unemployment compensation and food stamps?
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"Like everything Wolfe writes, 'I Am Charlotte Simmons' grabs your interest at the outset and saps the desire to do anything else until you finish," wrote Jacob Weisberg.
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I don't go out schmoozing nowadays and I'm based in Leeds not London, so can avoid a lot of industry stuff which just saps your creative energy really.
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Switching to achromatomaly, where only some blue hues are visible, saps most of the saturation out of images; achromatopsia, or total color blindness, sucks the color out completely.
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Global markets are closely watching for any further economic support measures from Beijing as a bruising trade war with the United States saps confidence, business profits and overall growth.
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Political instability saps ministerial ambition: why bother with tricky negotiations with Downing Street or the Treasury if the current occupants might not even be there in six months' time?
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SAPs are referenced in Executive Order 13526 but only in terms of authority to create them and recommendations on the number of individuals who should be accessed to them.
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Decades of growing lucrative cash crops and foreign investment has enabled Ivory Coast to become one of Francophone Africa's most prosperous economies, but political squabbling periodically saps its stability.
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It removes protections for 25 of the top 38 banks; weakens regulations on the biggest players and encourages them to manipulate regulations for their benefit; and saps consumer protections.
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"Jen and Christian are in a good position to further SAPs own transformation while delivering the technology to fuel their customers' own transformations," said Joshua Greenbaum, principal at EAConsult.
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His comments come weeks after Deutsche scraped through the latest stress tests for European banks and as European Central Bank (ECB) money printing saps their ability to turn a profit.
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Luckily, MUNCHIES' own culinary director, Farideh Sadeghin, did the math for the rest of us unenlightened saps and put together this foolproof recipe for a biscuit-topped chicken pot pie.
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Let us confirm that Hollywood, like the rest of us, is composed of a bunch of romance-starved saps who will gladly melt at the first display of true love.
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These songs still qualify as songs, with discernible, repeated melodies and such, but the slickness saps them of focus, leaving only a soft, blurry rendition of Beauty in the abstract.
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As it becomes more difficult to mine, it saps more and more energy, causing millions of tons of carbon dioxide to be pumped into the atmosphere and accelerating climate change.
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"The historical concern is that as energy creeps higher, it saps demand from other parts of the economy," said Douglas Burtnick, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Standard Investments in Philadelphia.
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The trio appeared in court on Friday "facing charges of possession of firearms and ammunition without a license, conspiracy to poach as well as trespassing," SAPS said in a statement.
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The Game, or more accurately the people who control and sell the fiction of—["On the frozen tundra of Lambeau" voice]—The Game to saps like you as something honorable.
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But if the pandemic sets off a global recession that saps demand for Chinese goods and ends decades of economic growth in the country, resentment toward the party could build.
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K sustains a wound that gradually saps his life over this portion of the movie, but that only increases the sense that the film has done something special with him.
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The natural decline as fields are depleted saps production by at least 5% a year, they argue, even before accounting for the effects of reductions in new drilling by embattled oil firms.
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As for the rest of the suspected poaching group, "three men aged between 26 and 35" have been arrested in connection with the incident, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS).
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In addition, hundreds of funds are sold with another kind of charge, known as a 12b-1 fee: a fee of up to 0.25 percent that quietly saps fund returns for years.
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Saudi Arabia's decision last weekend to ramp up production, even as the global coronavirus outbreak saps demand for fuel, is driving up global supplies with no place to go but storage tanks.
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Related: This Short Animation Will Make You Quit Your Job The 8 Most Incredible Stop-Motion Animation Music Videos From The Past Decade Pixar-esque Short Shows How Society Saps Your Creativity
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The USMCA is a deal made with Mexico and Canada last year that replaces the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which the president has criticized as a "disaster" that saps American jobs.
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The president reached an agreement with Mexico and Canada last year to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which the president has long slammed as a "disaster" that saps American jobs.
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Related: Carry a Tiny World on Your Smartphone with These Microcosmic GIFs Pixar Released a Slapstick Short Film About a Dog and His Bone Pixar-esque Short Shows How Society Saps Your Creativity
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China's luxury car market - seen rising 15 percent this year even as slower economic growth saps overall demand - is breathing new life into brands seen as ageing or unfashionable in the United States.
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That fatal disconnect between the visual and the vocal saps the tenderness from the relationship between James and Kathryn (who is a human, not a puppet, and is nicely played by Jamie Agnello).
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That some of Mr. Trump's most passionate followers are Indian may seem, at first, somewhat strange, given how fond he is of scorning Asian countries where cheap labor saps demand for American workers.
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Refraining from smoking was not about pleasing a parental authority figure; the "truth" pointed out to adolescents that people their parents' age ran the tobacco companies and took them for saps (not cool).
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Chelsea Handler absolutely burned Angelina Jolie, Mel Gibson and other saps who've been on the opposite side of the divorce table from Hollywood's Disso Queen ... all in the name of children and charity.
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China's imports of soybeans are set to drop as African swine fever saps demand for the animal feed ingredient, making it easier for buyers to keep shunning U.S. cargoes amid the trade war.
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On the page, this bifurcation works, but on the screen it saps the story's momentum, partly because there's no violence in the room to distract from the genericism and puerility of the dialogue.
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While the men are there, Ellie Staple, an enigmatic psychiatrist (Sarah Paulson), tries to convince them that, rather than being super-powered, they are really just poor saps who have read too many comics.
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Flynn But despite his image as confident boardroom manager who delighted in decisively telling unfortunate saps "You're Fired," Trump has seemingly found the real-life quest for a political partner a little more difficult.
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It amounts to the same thing -- by attacking Sanford, a guy who already lost his job because of Trump, the President saps out even more goodwill from even the Republican members who support him.
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He keens some of Masters's darkest verse in a harsh tenor ("She drained me like a fevered moon/That saps the spinning world") while angrily strumming a tin can ukulele in his long johns.
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A piano-led instrumental, picked out on one finger with all the exuberance of a John Lewis Christmas advert, saps all the nuance of Robyn's original and replaces it with a plodding air of gloom.
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Like her fellow Dutch-speaking figurative painter (and Zwirner stablemate) Luc Tuymans, Ms. Dumas draws on photographic sources for her paintings — but where Mr. Tuymans saps his subject matter of emotion, Ms. Dumas supersaturates it.
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Ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne set up a population control program decades ago but this is the first time the government says it is motivated by concern that rapid expansion saps the economy.
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But if you're one of the poor saps who sent off some money to a stranger that you'll never get back, it probably feels like a much bigger deal to you than it does to Venmo.
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The World Bank estimates that first- and business-class passengers on a narrow-body jet already generate between 2.5 and six times more carbon emissions per person than the poor saps crammed into the cheap seats.
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But mulling over the worst-case scenarios in the light of day forces me to recognize how unlikely, even ridiculous, they are; confronting them saps them of their power to terrify and even makes me laugh.
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On Monday, the central bank cut its 2020 economic growth forecast to 3.4% from its initial 6.2% estimate as the outbreak saps demand from trading partners such as Europe, and disrupts supply chains and domestic production.
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For five years now, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has been pumping huge amounts of cash into Japan's financial system to lift the economy out of years of deflation, a state of falling prices that saps growth.
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Essentially, each battle you fight saps some of your energy, and once you run out you'll either need to wait for it to refill (it takes about four hours to completely regenerate) or spend some premium currency.
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Disaffection sown by sub-par growth then risks becoming a feedback loop that further saps economic activity just as the world economy and its labour markets are struggling with intense pressure from ageing demographics and new technology.
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Bergen synthesizes reams of his own and others' research clearly and cracks some pretty decent professorial jokes, but as entertaining and enlightening as he is, he inadvertently saps a little of the joy out of dirty words.
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But it's sad that, as Democrats prepare to control both houses of the Legislature after being elected on a promise of reform and transformation, Mr. Heastie might take a stand that would make voters feel like saps.
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Even then, it was a summer treat flavored with different saps and syrups; later, it was scattered with toppings like red azuki beans, ripe fruit and sweet jellies made with agar, the natural gel harvested from algae.
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That the character has been thoroughly dislikable up to this point hardly saps his love songs of relish; instead, it renders them painfully felt — not humanizing, for he's always been human despite himself, but unexpected and almost surreal.
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Yet big-market investors, government leaders and regular citizens alike are right to be concerned about Dodd-Frank's diffusion of regulatory power, because it saps government of the capacity and coherence it needs to prevent the next crisis.
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The bank said it expects the economy to expand by 3.4% this year, from an initial estimate of 6.2%, as the virus saps demand from trading partners like Europe, as well as disrupting supply chains and domestic production.
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For the same cost, digital radio in Norway allows eight times more radio stations than FM. The current system of parallel FM and digital networks, each of which cost about 250 million crowns ($29 million), saps investments in programmes.
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SAPs require security protocols that go far beyond normal safeguards, usually for the protection of individuals, acquisitions, technologies, intelligence activities or types of operations, and these programs give us an unmatched advantage on the battlefield and in international relations.
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For the same cost, digital radio in Norway allows eight times more radio stations than FM. The current system of parallel FM and digital networks, each of which cost about 250 million crowns ($29 million), saps investments in programs.
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In the Western Cape, they've had to undertake further responsibility in violent crime prevention and form supplementary units such as the Gangs and Drugs team in response (unofficially) to SAPS inefficacy—poor conviction rates, endemic corruption, and shocking administration.
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In China, Sequoia Capital China, viewed as a bellwether for tech investment, is set to lay off as much as 20 percent of investment staff as a slowdown in the tech sector saps appetite for risk, two people have said.
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To put it bluntly, Metal Gear Solid V understands that repetition is drudgery, that it is soul-sucking, that it saps you of energy and enthusiasm, and then it demands that you dig down into that muck and live there.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A stellar rally in Britain's top stock index this year will run out of steam as uncertainty over the nation's torturous exit from the EU saps investor appetite for the world's fifth largest economy, a Reuters poll found.
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Banking is not the only industry in which the authors have found evidence that common ownership saps competition: a working paper published in March found that the concentration of ownership at airlines in America had boosted ticket prices by 3-5%.
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It was the latest to report a dip in mortgage loans as the United Kingdom's impending exit from the European Union saps confidence among house buyers but it said that had been offset by rises in both personal and business loans.
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The projections come during an unusually high level of uncertainty, with many economists warning of a potential recession on the horizon as weak global growth bleeds into the U.S. and the ongoing U.S.-China tariff battle saps confidence and business investment.
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It's true that ISIS and the Taliban are rivals, but any administration willing to entrust the Taliban with being a bulwark against global terrorism is even more gullible than the poor saps who paid money for a Trump University training program.
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It's true that ISIS and the Taliban are rivals, but any administration willing to entrust the Taliban with being a bulwark against global terrorism is even more gullible than the poor saps who paid money for a Trump University training program.
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What fascinated me about this whole thing originally were the poor saps who are perennial victims of low-grade identity theft, whose photos are stolen from Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr to be used repeatedly by evil online doppelgängers preying on the lovelorn.
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The euro zone barely grew in the second quarter and Germany, the bloc's biggest economy may already be in recession as a global trade war, China's slowdown and Brexit uncertainty holds back export demand and saps confidence in its vast manufacturing sector.
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Policymakers are expected to try to give an ailing euro zone economy a boost and may even set the stage for more action later this year as an escalating global trade war saps growth and unravels the benefits of years of ECB stimulus.
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He made his oils and flours from acorns, dandelions, and pine; incorporated barks, saps, stems, and lichen, while eschewing sugar, butter, and cream; cured his meats in pine needles; made dozens of cheeses (without rennet); and cooked on wooden planks, soil, and stone.
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Despite the grim milestone, experts do not expect much change in Russia, where victims still face the kind of stigma prevalent in the 1980s in the West and where continuing trench warfare between the Kremlin and independent nongovernmental organizations saps collective efforts.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Four of China's so-called 'Big Five' state-owned banks have warned that profits will continue to be pressured in the second half of the year, as slowing growth in the world's second-biggest economy hits borrowers and saps lenders' margins.
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But in these cases, the two modes — parent figure and accused abuser — are sides of the same coin: a male-centered, star-driven structure that saps coffers, repels gender equity and leaves ensembles at a loss when a charmed leader disappears, unexpectedly or not.
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ICBC is one of China's so-called 'Big Five' state-owned banks that recently warned that profits will continue to be pressured in the second half of the year, as slowing growth in the world's second-biggest economy hits borrowers and saps lenders' margins.
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Whenever it seems to have landed on an image that can really conjure that feeling of overwhelming oppression — the face veils, Aunt Lydia pushing June's head down on the Waterfords' TV set — it immediately walks the image back and saps all the power out of it.
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One day, while he's off fighting with his former Spartan brothers in the city of Rhodes — against the wishes of Athena and the rest of the gods — a giant eagle appears out of nowhere and saps away his powers, animating the Colossus of Rhodes in the process.
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"Even the sword-pulling scene itself — a pivotal moment in the legend, probably worth taking seriously — is sabotaged from within by a David Beckham cameo that goes on for line after forehead-slapping line, and saps the moment of its mythic excitement," the film critic wrote.
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The regulatory stranglehold Dodd-Frank inflicts on America's regional banks extends to dozens of new requirements that puts them at a tremendous disadvantage to their Wall Street counterparts, saps them of resources to lend, while passing higher costs on to their customers, if not eliminating services altogether.
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"Burnout is a response to ongoing stress that is important, because it saps the student&aposs energy, reduces their productivity, and leaves them with a diminished sense of accomplishment," said Professor Frank Fincham, an FSU Eminent Scholar and director of the FSU Family Institute, in a statement.
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The film's critics quite rightly point out that making Carol an amnesiac for its first half saps Larson of the charms of her usual onscreen presence, that the movie's take on "feminism" is ultra-generic, and that its take on the '90s is even more so.
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"The opposition Labour Party and the nationalist New Zealand First party have enough combined votes to form a coalition on their own, which increases the political uncertainty and saps the kiwi, which has long benefited from a stable political backdrop ... a key source of the currency's support," Esiner said.
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It saps the movie of whatever narrative tension it may have had, because we know Daniel will end up being a cad and Bridget will end up back with Mark — it's just a matter of seeing how much she'll humiliate herself on the way back into his arms.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital China, widely viewed as a bellwether for Chinese tech investment, is set to lay off as much as 20 percent of its investment staff as a slowdown in the country's tech sector saps appetite for risk, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
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It was a cri de coeur custom-made for the age of Trump — and custom-designed to please Trump himself: entitled white men acting like the new minority, howling about things that are being taken away from them, aggrieved at anything that diminishes them or saps their power.
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This year, J. D. Greear, a young, hip pastor from North Carolina who is sympathetic to Calvinism, nearly won the election for president of the S.B.C. Land finds this worrisome: he notes that Calvinists are sometimes tempted by fatalism, which saps the urgency that helps churches grow and thrive.
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"The opposition Labour Party and the nationalist New Zealand First party have enough combined votes to form a coalition on their own, which increases the political uncertainty and saps the kiwi, which has long benefited from a stable political backdrop ... a key source of the currencys support," Esiner said.
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VILNIUS/FRANKFURT, June 6 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will try to give an ailing euro zone economy a boost on Thursday and may even set the stage for more action later this year as an escalating global trade war saps growth and unravels the benefits of years of ECB stimulus.
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A spokesperson for the intelligence community inspector general tells CNN that McCullough and three of his staffers -- all of whom held Top Secret security clearances -- had to be "read in" on SAPs in order to review the emails in question, and that they will be "read out" when the review is completed.
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Whatever the final number ends up being, every dollar clawed back gives owners more resources to ride out a possible work stoppage when the current CBA expires in 2020—and more importantly, saps the union's ability to fill a war chest of its own, something players will need if they're foregoing paychecks.
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" While the exact nature of May's condition is unknown, the "Bohemian Rhapsody" star alluded to a struggle with depressive thoughts in a recent blog post in which he wrote, "I've been battling against a very big black cloud in my personal sphere … which saps enthusiasm and energy and makes you feel everything is pointless.
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The cast of the first season is a barely-motley crew of conventionally attractive saps, drunks, and blank-eyed doll people delivering canned one-liners (looking at you, Giannina and Amber) whose weirdness is hardly physical—it's found in their personalities, as they struggle with some of the most basic elements needed to build a lasting marriage.
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It needs to rebuild those to prepare for an intensification of the "three warfares" should a conflict arise, push back now against the tenuous claims of China's inevitable "rise," and begin to target the regime with an information campaign that saps its morale and takes advantage of the Chinese population's deep mistrust of Chinese political leaders.
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While most Americans would likely not be able to tell the difference between top secret (information that if publicly released might cause exceptionally grave danger to national security apparatus or processes) and secret (information if publicly available that might cause serious damage to national security) information, very few truly understand SAPs and related code word intelligence that are applied to various programs.
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The raffishness, the abruptness, the fusillade of insults and wisecracks; the fascination with violence and the illicit; the division of the world into the knowing (typically urban and male) and the saps (often rural)—such qualities made the comedies and the melodramas of the Depression a hardheaded new American art, an art that moved faster and ran shallower than life.
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The members, mostly black and white religious and community leaders, talked about complex policy issues they hoped to tackle that might make a lasting difference — about scaling back a statewide industrial tax exemption that they say saps police and school budgets, and about proposing a requirement that would force police officers to live in the city, or at least the parish, that they protect.
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"Nationwide injunctions … radically inflate the role of district judges, allowing any one of more than 600 individuals to single-handedly freeze a policy nationwide, a power that no single appellate judge or justice can accomplish; they foreclose percolation and reasoned debate among lower courts, often requiring the Supreme Court to decide complex legal issues in an emergency posture with limited briefing [and] they enable transparent forum shopping, which saps public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary," Attorney General William Barr declared in a speech last month.
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