Our interest will not be sapped by anything or anyone.
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But the company's unprofitable reality has since sapped investor enthusiasm.
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I'd regain the strength that's currently sapped from my fingers.
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S. trade war and worries over global growth sapped confidence.
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" Sapped of quiddity, she has become "an all-American girl.
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But the difficulties steadily sapped the authority of Mr. Essid.
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Traders said that falling U.S. futures also sapped risk appetite.
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Biden has been boosted, while Sanders's strength has been sapped.
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With the amenders' momentum sapped, their opponents gained the upper hand.
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Potatoes have also sapped some of the romance out of life.
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Now, the cartoonish fun hasn't been totally sapped from the show.
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The euro has sapped economies insufficiently integrated for a common currency.
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Decades of protection have sapped the competitive energies of Argentine industries.
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But the open Ethics probe appears to have sapped that support.
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I am far too sapped for pulsating choruses or dramatic soars.
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After 45 miles my head ached and my legs were sapped.
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Protest fatigue and constant power and water outages have sapped morale.
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But soon her strength was sapped, and she flopped back down.
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A cold had sapped his energy, and it was a Friday.
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His business partner went through a divorce that sapped his finances.
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A siege has slowly sapped the strength and morale of its defenders.
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Now that it's out, it's been defanged and its news value sapped.
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That book sapped me of energy ... I couldn't deal with the preciousness.
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He's been sapped of his mojo, baby (another very timely movie reference).
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A new focus on profitability has sapped many employees of their enthusiasm.
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Or maybe the mess back home has just sapped the restaurant's spirit.
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The more retailers spend to compete, the more their profits are sapped.
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The more they spend to compete, the more their profits are sapped.
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Whatever the tenor of their marriage, it sapped her ambitions for painting.
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The massacre had not even sapped the will of Dak Son's survivors.
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Vice just leaves you feeling sapped, advertising its cleverness without actually being clever.
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But fallout from the 2008 crisis has sapped them of some predictive power.
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They argue free trade deals have sapped U.S. jobs and hurt manufacturing workers.
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The writing that feels truest to life describes Valenti feeling sapped of it.
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The lopsided lead sapped the effectiveness of Navy's run-heavy, triple-option offense.
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It's also delayed the release of "Mulan" and sapped ESPN of live sports.
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The pandemic, which first sapped the primary of life, is now extending it.
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"A lot of my political capital was sapped because of that," he said.
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A night of camping ultimately sapped that range by about 7 percentage points.
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Maybe the lashing rain and winds sapped the spirit and energy of competitors.
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Her body aches, colds linger, her steps more deliberate, her energy easily sapped.
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The Turkish invasion sapped Morocco's momentum toward bringing the prisoners home, officials said.
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My body seems sapped of strength like I'm in a greasy fast-food coma.
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The terms of discourse shifts to remembrances of discussions just passed, the vitality sapped.
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He could have conceivably sapped support from former Vice President Joe Biden or Sen.
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The worst was a hip replacement, which sapped her energy and restricted her movement.
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S. frictions and fears of a slowdown in global economic growth sapped investors' confidence.
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Firstly the pound's post-PMI push has sapped most of the FTSE's positive energy.
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Beijing's rapid growth has also sapped the economies of neighboring regions, including Hebei province.
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The tensions add to a litany of other issues that have sapped employee morale.
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Those effects sapped even more productivity growth, 1.3 percentage points, from the British economy.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar sapped some support from college-educated women, particularly in New Hampshire.
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She told Reeve that her relentless schedule had sapped her desire to keep playing.
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Seeing the once wild man sapped of his vitality, McMurphy's roommate smothers him to death.
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A sharp sell-off in both U.S. and European shares overnight sapped investors' risk appetites.
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But some say his performance during Saturday night's debate has sapped support from his campaign.
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Every time the British hope erred the crowd "ahhhed" and it gradually sapped Konta's confidence.
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And Europe's political will has been sapped by the chaos of last year's mass arrivals.
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Jonathan Beaton told me that working for Sinclair had sapped his idealism about the profession.
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Trump 'lost a lot' Other Presidents have come back from defeats that sapped their power.
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Senate GOP aides at the time said the delay sapped the bill of critical momentum.
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A lot of flat tires, but also electronic keyless ignitions that sapped batteries and more.
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Demand for crude is sapped by a stronger dollar, which is priced in the currency.
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This occupation has sapped the Zionist founders' commitment to a democratic state governed by laws.
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Far from being independent, they said, Kosovar Muslims had been sapped of their historical destiny.
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Some protesters said Thursday's walkout may have sapped some of the energy for Friday's action.
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"This can never mean that we are exhausted or our will has been sapped," they said.
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Irma made brief landfall on the North shore of Cuba, which sapped some of its strength.
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The latest news sapped appetite for risk and ended a rally in Chinese stocks this month.
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Both indexes had shed more than 3% last month as the virus outbreak sapped risk appetite.
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Both British benchmark indexes shed more than 3% last month as the outbreak sapped risk appetite.
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The morale of his men is sapped because they are nine months behind with their pay.
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Low oil prices have sapped demand for business-class travel from energy companies in the region.
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Zooming consumer price increases have sapped people's spending power while hammering Macri in the opinion polls.
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Volatility has sapped investors' strength and it could take a while before they regain their footing.
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The postelection rally in U.S. equities is looking tired as gridlock has sapped momentum in Washington.
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The layoff may have sapped any momentum following a 216-87 drubbing of the Miami Heat.
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Weeks of sliding poll numbers and false starts had sapped Mr. Manafort's credibility inside the campaign.
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That sapped cargoes from the East Coast, which has had its own refinery maintenance, traders said.
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But breakthroughs in the economy have eluded him, which many economists say have sapped business confidence.
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When I ask what happened, they say something about feeling their virility being sapped by time.
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You kick aside their sapped carcass and fall asleep as far away from them as possible.
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On awakening, I realized my inspiration had dropped to zero, and my world sapped of color.
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" Trump sapped Western unity by slapping trade tariffs on allies in the name of "national security.
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That and controversies surrounding Trump's temporary refugee ban have sapped some energy from the healthcare drive.
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Mr. Guaidó risks being arrested, but his absence has sapped the momentum of his opposition movement.
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Instead it sapped everything I had, leaving me with a lot of space but no money.
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Djokovic appeared listless and sapped of energy, and he called for the trainer after holding serve.
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Brahms's late works suggest a man whose emotional energy has been sapped dry; Beethoven's suggest the opposite.
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"Free Cash Flow is being sapped by increasing acquisitions and equity investments into opaque entities," he added.
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His early works looked at organisational design and how it sapped employee productivity rather than enhanced it.
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George W. Bush's unsuccessful wars were a distraction and sapped support at home for America's global role.
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S. trade dispute, while the Federal Reserve's new-found concerns over the global economy sapped the dollar.
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The global shipping industry is suffering from a severe downturn that has sapped demand for new vessels.
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That OPEC member had been excluded from production cut estimates because armed conflict had sapped overall production.
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The yen weakened 0.83 percent to 111.47 per dollar as the trade optimism sapped safe-haven demand.
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But this election has sapped me of my willingness to engage because engaging has inevitably meant fighting.
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Maybe his low approval ratings sapped his confidence to publicly confront Mr. Trump about the border wall.
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Additionally, construction equipment sales have suffered as weak crude prices sapped building demand in oil-rich countries.
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Beijing's deleveraging campaign hurt fundraising by local-currency funds, and a crackdown on shadow banking sapped liquidity.
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The conflict sapped Ukraine's already poor public finances and left Russia largely isolated on the global stage.
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These flurries were the ones which sapped McGregor's energy and had him struggling in the middle rounds.
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Coronavirus has sapped the world's demand for oil, and major producers cannot agree on what to do.
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"I think the award may have sapped her confidence," he told the website Literary Hub in 2015.
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The consternation sapped some of the glory of the moment from "Moonlight" and its all-black cast.
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He argued the North American Free Trade Agreement, in particular, sapped manufacturing jobs from the United States.
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My sinking morale sapped my enthusiasm for my work, which in turn could precipitate Bill's next attack.
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People familiar with the BitLicense process say the delay in appointing Lawsky's successor sapped some of the momentum.
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Privatisations are a condition of Greece's latest international bailout but its protracted economic crisis has sapped investor interest.
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Yet though Macron's ambitions are curtailed and his power sapped, he has taught the world some useful lessons.
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The anti-graft campaign has sapped the motivation of officials while leaving the rotten system around them intact.
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Cuddly campaigns have turned shoemakers such as Adidas against kangaroo leather and sapped foreign appetite for the meat.
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"Volatility has sapped investors' strength and it could take a while before they regain their footing," he said.
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JGB gains were limited by surging stocks, which sapped some of the safe-haven appeal of government debt.
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The tax has not been increased since 2628, however, and improved fuel efficiency has sapped its purchasing power.
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Sapped of their energy and motivation, or so the theory goes, their movement fizzles and eventually dies out.
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OPEC has exempted Nigeria and Libya from the curbs due to unrest that has sapped those countries' production.
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The tax has not been increased since 1993, however, and improved fuel efficiency has sapped its purchasing power.
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Life during the coronavirus outbreak has sapped victims' outlets for relief: Running errands, speaking with counselors, visiting friends.
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But since that could take weeks or months, don't suffer with a sapped phone battery in the meantime.
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Ironically upbeat design patterns reflecting a party-favor aesthetic introduce energy that is then sapped by truncated dramas.
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Ultimately, it was Buttigieg's longstanding trouble attracting support from voters of color that sapped his campaign of momentum.
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Concerns over U.S. President-elect Trump's protectionist policies have sapped the dollar going into his inauguration this week.
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The tit-for-tat trade war has rocked global markets, disrupted supply chains and sapped demand for metals.
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Intellectual energy has been sapped on campuses, in parliaments, and in what little is left of public discourse.
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However, weakness in base metal prices sapped confidence in material stocks which led the decliners on the benchmark.
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SPX, is clinging on in positive territory and while the trade jitters have sapped the Dow Jones Industrial .
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Democratic lawmakers and Trump alike have argued NAFTA sapped American manufacturing jobs after it took effect in 1994.
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The richness of our talents and diversity is being sapped by the scare tactics of our immigration authorities.
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He argued that the North American Free Trade Agreement, in particular, sapped manufacturing jobs from the United States.
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Sentiment was also further sapped by UK manufacturing data that underscored the weak state of the British economy.
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It was canniness and sapped legs and a directive to put up points, by whatever means still worked.
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The Yankees acquired the three-time All-Star from Seattle in June to bolster a lineup sapped by injuries.
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Samman looked sapped after spending the majority of the first round in the clinch with the 35-year-old.
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France's economy has long been sluggish; its vast state, which absorbs 57% of GDP, has sapped the country's vitality.
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By slowing down global trade and raising the cost of some goods, it has sapped demand for manufactured products.
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But in China many unrelated safety scandals have sapped public confidence in the authorities' ability to regulate such things.
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A record 35-day partial closure in parts of December and January disrupted government services and sapped economic growth.
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Japan's Nikkei share average slipped 0.25 percent on Friday as uncertainty over U.S. political issues sapped investor risk appetite.
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The low interest rates prevailing since 2008 have sapped returns on bonds, making an already tricky funding situation worse.
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Under Mr Dauman, a corporate lawyer by training, the firm was sapped of its creative energy, former executives say.
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It would be hardly surprising if a $10,000 check each for mom and dad sapped their desire to work.
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Since much of this spending is done in small increments, you don't immediately realize you've sapped your monthly budget.
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A drought this year sapped Argentina's grain exports and helped to slam Latin America's third-largest economy into recession.
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The delayed planting season sapped demand and prices for diesel in the region, leaving behind a glut of supply.
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Mason's death had sapped some of his power, so this new mission refreshed his stature and his righteous purpose.
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But the 10 days in between New Hampshire and Nevada clearly sapped Klobuchar of the momentum she had built.
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It was too late, as his momentum was sapped enough to help Romney claw his way to the nomination.
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The cycle of economic and political turmoil has sapped the nation and left it in a state of gridlock.
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South Africa has suffered rolling blackouts and the debts of state power company Eskom have sapped the country's economy.
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But the expense and trouble incurred integrating Nidera and Noble Agri sapped COFCO's ability and appetite for any subsequent deals.
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OPEC members Libya and Nigeria were exempted from the cuts due to years of unrest that have sapped their output.
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Pakistan's boisterous media were once a bright spot in its unsteady democracy, but the current assault has sapped journalists' spirits.
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However, a tariff war between the United States and trade partners including China has sapped business confidence, dampening economic activity.
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Yet, concerns about the ongoing investigation into contacts between Trump's election campaign and Russia sapped some of the market's enthusiasm.
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Farmers in the state have also chafed under Trump's trade war with China that has sapped demand for agriculture products.
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Here is a Sontag heaving herself through shredded political romances and sapped passions, applying her ardor to disillusionment and drift.
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But troops are weary after months of continuous fighting, their morale sapped by corruption, poor equipment and lack of supplies.
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That and Instagram Stories are believed to have sapped view counts, leading many to think Snapchat had lost its mojo.
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Leftists were out of power in Buenos Aires, Brasilia and Santiago, and Venezuela's economic collapse had sapped its diplomatic mojo.
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China's financial markets will be closed all of next week for "Golden Week" holidays, which has sapped turnover this week.
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Winning the presidency sapped much of the strength of a movement that defines itself almost exclusively through what it hates.
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He argues that the organization's "utterly incompetent management of the hotel" has driven away guests and sapped the property's profits.
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That said, the movie's ludicrously drawn-out finale sapped the good will out of some of my fellow audience members.
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The photographer Katharine Cooper depicts the ruined churches of Aleppo, Syria, in stark black-and-white prints, sapped of hope.
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But the cure was worse than the disease, diverting executive power outside constitutional controls and sapped the presidency of energy.
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Lower U.S. yields sapped some of the appetite for the dollar, taking it almost 1 percent lower against the yen .
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The comments led Earnest to fire back, suggesting that Schumer's vote on Iran has sapped his authority on the topic.
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PAYROLLS IN FOCUS The White House's 2000-month trade war with China has sapped business confidence and undercut capital expenditure.
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Worries over Italy's budget, Brexit talks and Saudi Arabia's handling of Jamal Khashoggi's killing sapped investor confidence in emerging markets.
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The hurricane sapped demand for crude and created long lines for gasoline in parts of the U.S. Southeast and Midwest.
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The dollar slipped across the board as increased investor appetite for risk sapped the safe-haven appeal of the greenback.
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Lopez Obrador said on Monday that Mexico is close to reaching a deal in the dispute, which has sapped investor confidence.
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But a series of scandals have sapped Mr Abe's authority, and he may face more competition than he was bargaining for.
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But the arrival 11 years ago of a male grandson, the son of Naruhito's younger brother, sapped the impetus for reform.
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The company announced a 91 percent drop in half-year profit as a combination of delays and buyers' reticence sapped sales.
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In an effort to boost financial markets, global central banks have sapped their momentum even more, one market watcher contended Friday.
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In these post-election days, my patients have felt their sense of strength sapped by feelings of disappointment, fear, and uncertainty.
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Slumping oil prices have sapped risk appetite and sent traders scrambling for the safety of the Japanese yen in recent weeks.
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A dry spell in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) arena though most of this year has sapped bank fee income.
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A dry spell in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) arena through most of this year has sapped bank fee income.
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Then came the coronavirus, which has sapped overall online donations to Democrats on ActBlue, the party's main portal for online giving.
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I've struggled for years to describe what it feels like to have high blood sugar: All my energy is sapped away.
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Widespread school and office closures have sapped profits for businesses dependent on steady flows of workers or students through their doors.
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The tensions have sapped confidence in Lebanon's economy, already suffering one of the world's heaviest public debt burdens and low growth.
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Media observers often position MSNBC as a rival of Fox News, but Maddow's success has not sapped Fox of its power.
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Trump's State Department has been sapped by the ouster of experienced foreign service officers and morale problems among those who remain.
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Economic warfare and endless military challenges have sapped investment in the U.S. industrial base, infrastructure, STEM education and technology R&D.
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Hurricanes also often lead to demand being sapped over the short term if the storm floods areas and shuts in people.
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The initial run of that card sapped quarterly profit by as much as $300 million, the bank said in December 2016.
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Italy last sold syndicated debt a year ago, months before the election of a populist government sapped appetite for Italian risk.
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The U.S. dollar slipped across the board as increased investor appetite for risk sapped the safe-haven appeal of the greenback.
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On one hand, the Fed sapped liquidity out of money markets and contributed to the September spike in short-term rates.
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Again, you hope it won't be completely sapped of its brutality, as this depressing interview with one of the producers suggests.
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A Star Hobbled To the Sports Editor: Re "A Magnetic N.F.L. Star, Sapped of Spirit by a Disease of the Brain," Feb.
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A cooling property market - an engine of economic growth - has also sapped demand for construction-related goods and services, curbing industrial profits.
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But the populist government in Rome and its row with the European Union over budget spending have sapped appetite for Italian bonds.
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Years of political chaos, low investment and more recently the influx of 1.5m Syrian refugees, which has sapped resources, exacerbated the problem.
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But plenty of people in the Valley reckon the bad outweighs the good and that early, "shoot-out" acquisitions have sapped innovation.
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He also says he avoids unnecessary dilution of the share price to finance the kind of acquisitions that have sapped some miners.
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Escalating trade tensions between the United States and China have sapped investor risk appetite and rattled financial markets in the past month.
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I decided to try the cures that were offered up here most regularly—a different one each week by serotonin-sapped week.
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That boosted gasoline inventories at 241 million barrels, or about where inventories were at this time in 2016, which sapped refining margins.
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That sapped demand for higher-yield, growth-reliant assets and drove investors toward "safe" destinations such as the Japanese yen and gold.
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And in some places, such as Ethiopia, farmers were subjected to oppressive command-and-control regimes that sapped their will to work.
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When I visited her last November, her legs had been sapped of most of their strength, and she walked with a cane.
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Britain's vote to leave the EU appears to have sapped the European Commission's energy for a fight with its fractious member states.
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And the fact that most vendors have also signed long-term leases at the Hunts Point location has sapped enthusiasm for relocating.
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She weighed close to 350 pounds, and she didn't want to move, because the medications sapped whatever will or desire she had.
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However, a tariff war between the United States and trade partners including China has sapped business confidence and weakened the global economy.
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In commodity markets, oil prices had trickled back above $47 a barrel after being sapped by data showing weak U.S. fuel demand.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan became deeply unpopular over time and sapped the American public's appetite for involvement in foreign conflicts.
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There were no killings connected to the event, although participants said that the measures had sapped the energy out of the celebration.
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The move comes in a space that has seen considerable turmoil since the crisis has intensified and market liquidity has been sapped.
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Yet even here the blood had been sapped of its former ominous strength; it was little more than a meaningless pastel smear.
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Now, Betances, who had a right shoulder impingement that sapped his velocity, is dealing with a bump in his road to recovery.
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The virus, which has infected more than 90,000 people, has sapped demand as corporations pause lucrative business travel as the illness spreads.
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Stocks in the developing world snapped a three-day gaining streak as bleak economic data from China sapped demand for riskier assets.
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But the police in several cities have also cited disgruntled rickshaw and taxi drivers upset that bike-sharing has sapped their business.
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Moreover, the current Iranian government enacted economic and social reforms that sapped the most corrupt, anti-American hardliners of power and influence.
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The 63-month trade war between the world's top two economies has sapped business confidence and disrupted supply chains around the world.
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Ramaphosa is under pressure over nationwide power cuts that have dented economic output and sapped investor confidence in Africa's most industrialised economy.
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As well, tight fiscal measures to meet conditions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $1.5 billion loan further sapped demand.
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Organizers like Idelson have expressed concern that energy otherwise devoted to crafting an "inspiring, affirmative program" could be sapped by anti-Trump efforts.
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Symmetry-breaking makes nature hierarchical and injects arbitrary variables into its correlation functions—the qualities that sapped Chew's bootstrap method of its power.
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TOKYO, Feb 113 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks fell on Friday in thin trade as a stronger yen and retreating oil prices sapped risk appetite.
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Analysts are concerned that the decision to leave the EU will hurt growth, as companies delay investment plans and consumer confidence is sapped.
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A resurfacing of worries about Brexit also sapped at the pound, which has been one of the best performing major currencies in 2018.
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The onshore shale boom of the last decade and modest prices have sapped the urgency around widening offshore leasing, especially in the Arctic.
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They've been robbed; evil people have pilfered days they would have had with their loved ones, disease has sapped health from their body.
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The major factor was the Great Depression, because it sapped the tongs of the wherewithal and the incentive to continue to do battle.
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This has sapped confidence in the economy, which contracted by 3.8% in 2015 and is expected to shrink by as much this year.
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Small business owners are upbeat about economic growth but that optimism is being sapped by weak inventories and hard-to-fill job openings.
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The year-long tariff standoff between the world's two largest economies has sapped metals demand and helped dent growth in top consumer China.
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Frank Gore played well on the whole, but fumble problems inside the 21 sapped a lot of the value out of his carries.
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OPEC has exempted Nigeria and Libya from the curbs, leaving them free to ramp up output that had been sapped by local unrest.
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Rising income inequality, which lowers some income and sales tax receipts, combined with falling oil prices, have sapped states of much-needed revenue.
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"Other surges seen since the middle of last year have generally proved short-lived, as weak wage growth sapped consumer spending," he said.
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Those fears have sapped confidence in markets where the destruction of wealth has prompted businesses to reconsider investment plans, threatening jobs and spending.
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Trump carried Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2016 in part by promising to overhaul trade deals that he says sapped U.S. manufacturing jobs.
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Economists, however, say the blockade has sapped Qatar's economy as the government has marshaled its reserves to airlift in supplies and stabilize banks.
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But "the forever wars" have badly sapped British equipment and morale, and have deeply damaged faith in the judgment of the United States.
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Killings in Mexico hit a record high in 2017, and the violence has sapped confidence in the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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Rather than slowly having your strength and vitality sapped by the tadpole, everyone infected aboard that Mind Flayer ship appears to be thriving.
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China's trade war with the United States slowed its economy and sapped metal demand, prompting the penny-pinching by the Chinese steel mills.
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Advocates contend the enforcement push has sapped resources that could be used to address the care and custody of newly arrived migrant families.
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But a $1 billion corruption scandal has sapped the popularity of the pro-EU leaders, helping Moscow-backed Dodon win the presidency in 2016.
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In 2015, Sothic and CapeView both participated in a similarly complicated debt refinancing after low gold prices sapped Russia-focused, London-listed miner Petropavlovsk .
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A steady loss of working-class whites, who tend to be more conservative than other parts of the coalition, has sapped this ideological diversity.
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It had gained 2.7 percent on Sunday after oil prices rallied late last week, but crude's renewed weakness has again sapped Saudi market confidence.
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So far this year, tumbling oil prices and slumping global equities have sapped investors' appetite for risk assets, and underpinned safe-haven government debt.
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But last year, the price collapsed by three quarters, initiating the so-called winter that sapped valuations and kept institutional investors largely at bay.
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The resulting profit-taking has gradually sapped the momentum from the rally and probably contributed to the lack of liquidity behind Wednesday's price move.
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Also, the housing market's growth has been hampered by low levels of homes for sale, which have sapped some momentum over the past year.
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Meanwhile, uncertainty surrounding Britain's exit from the European Union sapped consumer confidence in Ireland and south western England, where SPAR also operates, it said.
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Eight-hour stretches of tending to residents with senility or Alzheimer's would leave him sapped with little time to spend with his three children.
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However, disappointing reports from bellwethers such as Intel and GE over the past two days have sapped some of the momentum from the rally.
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Her decision last year to open Germany's doors to some 1 million migrants sapped some grassroots support and has dented the CDU's poll ratings.
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But it hasn't really sapped his athleticism, and what you saw in one year at Duke is what I'd call his "injury recovery" year.
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Emerging market stocks have sunk into correction territory, and they may feel further pain as the fundamental backdrop for owning them has gotten sapped.
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Officials say his health seems sapped by nearly a decade of detention in Pakistan, and he is being cared for by his young son.
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The move came as digital piracy and free music online had all but sapped CDs of value, leading Hussle to start his #Proud2Pay movement.
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The Trump administration's year-long trade war with China, which has sapped business confidence, is threatening to derail the longest economic expansion in history.
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Business groups, too, expressed optimism the two sides might be able to ease a trade war that has sapped economic growth around the globe.
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The U.S. economy and corporate earnings continue to impress, but markets' positive momentum has been sapped by the political follies of the Trump administration.
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In fact, counter-protesters have successfully sapped power from Neo-Nazis in the United States and Europe by arriving to their marches dressed as clowns.
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Argentina is grappling with recession, stubbornly high inflation and a volatile peso currency, which has hit the jobs market and sapped salaries and spending power.
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Moreover, it appears that the Scottish National Party — a pro-Scottish Independence Party that had sapped seats away from Labour in progressive Scotland — declined significantly.
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Freshly graduated from university and living in the San Francisco Bay Area, she went through months of radiation and chemotherapy that sapped her physical strength.
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But it has failed to repeal the previous government's retroactive tax law, which has targeted Vodafone and Cairn Energy among others and sapped investor confidence.
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The companies have suffered over the last two years as world steel prices hit 22016-year lows and the country's economic crisis sapped domestic demand.
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Apparently, an iguana's response to cold weather is to just totally shut down: to become frozen, lifeless, even sapped of their usual neon-green color.
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But the program's lengthy screening process and ban on candidates fighting the regime sapped its appeal, until only 54 recruits emerged and the program ended.
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The game was played in almost 90-degree heat and both sides appeared to settle for a point as the sun sapped the players' energy.
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Russian steelmakers have suffered over the past two years as world steel prices plumbed 11-year lows and the country's economic crisis sapped domestic demand.
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Ettah said the economy was gradually recovering from the recession, which sapped consumer demand and increased costs due to its effect on the naira currency.
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However, in his highly anticipated speech Wednesday night in Arizona, Trump said that illegal immigration has sapped jobs and prosperity from low-skilled American workers.
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But persistent shoulder problems caused him to miss the final two games last season, necessitating off-season surgery, and his foot discomfort sapped his potency.
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Advertisers have fled, in part, these publications say, because of congressional inaction, which has sapped the special interest advertising that once padded their balance sheets.
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The U.S. currency fell broadly earlier this week after a thaw in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing sapped demand for the safe-haven greenback.
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SXTP fell 0.5 percent as Air France weighed and the deepening crisis in Turkey sapped investors' appetite for companies involved in tourism in the country.
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Yes, but: Beaudreau makes several points about the sale... The industry has just recently begun emerging from a low-price cycle that sapped capital investment.
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The president won the White House partly through pledges to crack down on alleged trade abuses by foreign countries that he says sapped American jobs.
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His most recent rise to the prime minister's office followed a period of instability in the country's leadership that sapped the national appetite for politics.
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Alongside Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Konrad Lueg and other students at the exuberant Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he began painting deadpan figurative canvases in a sapped grisaille.
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Losing that one plane sapped some airlines of expected growth, forced them to cancel thousands of flights and resulted in billions of dollars in losses.
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 20.4 percent, while Japan's Nikkei lost 21 percent as the stronger yen sapped investor appetite.
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The economy's fading fortunes have been attributed to the Trump administration's 22009-month trade war with China, which has sapped business confidence and undermined manufacturing.
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Western and Asian diplomats in Kabul said the fear of Taliban violence has sapped enthusiasm for the vote, with some expecting a record low turnout.
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CHINA GROWTH PANGS Stocks in the developing world snapped a three-day gaining streak as bleak economic data from China sapped demand for riskier assets.
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The Pentagon also sapped an extra $3.53 billion from National Guard and Reserve equipment accounts, for which Congress has typically sought to allocate increased funding.
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The slowing economy has sapped consumer confidence even as access to credit has dwindled amid a crackdown on risky lending and high levels of debt.
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Division between Federal Reserve policymakers on when to raise U.S. interest rates has sapped investor enthusiasm for trading on comments by officials from the central bank.
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Or at the very least, throughout history the care-freeness of youth has been sapped by the stark anxieties of a world ever hurtling toward entropy.
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TOKYO, May 23 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds edged down on Monday, taking their cue from U.S. Treasuries as firm equities sapped demand for safe-haven debt.
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The weaker exchange rate has also sapped people's spending power, especially buying equipment overseas in dollars, a common practice due to better availability and lower prices.
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Autos stocks were the worst-performing, down 0.9 percent, as the weak Chinese manufacturing data and anxiety over potential tariffs sapped investors' appetite for the sector.
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The index was on course for a weekly loss as Brexit chaos, Italy's budget showdown with the European Commission and anxious oil markets sapped risk appetite.
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Yet when relations with Turkey are at a low ebb because of its incursion into Syria, the energy needed to push back seems to have sapped.
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Molloy (two goals) mainly orbited around the goal, visibly hobbling at times and sapped of the explosiveness and bulldozing strength that made his game so distinctive.
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But in Mr. Trump's case, they also arguably sapped the journalistic will to scour his record as aggressively as those of his supposedly more serious rivals.
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But lack of progress on the Trump agenda, only a wisp of wage growth, and three straight months of falling oil prices have sapped that momentum.
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Mr. Chávez and Mr. Kirchner are dead, the momentum sapped from their leftist movement; and Argentina's new center-right government is pursuing cozier ties with Washington.
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And then alas, in three minutes, my $20 deposit was sapped, and I thought about all the other things I could have done with that $20.
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Producing both books (plus teaching and other projects) might have left another 22-year-old historian sapped and hoping for more laurels on which to rest.
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The prolonged trade dispute has sapped demand for metals, hurt global economic growth and pushed China to boost investment and economic incentives to spur economic demand.
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The Mets' plummet had sapped many fans of their will to buy tickets, and so two hours before the first pitch, Keith's book event was struggling.
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Clinton wrote, sapped her momentum, allowed Mr. Trump to paint her as "Crooked Hillary" and turned voters away in the crucial closing days of the campaign.
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Bucking the trend, gold stocks hit their lowest in more than a week as a broader risk-on sentiment sapped demand for the safe-haven bullion.
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The crisis has already led to layoffs in Boeing's supply chain and the grounding has sapped cash from companies that make parts for the beleaguered planes.
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In all, his outing contained small, but encouraging, signs that his arm's potency had not been sapped by his operation in July for thoracic outlet syndrome.
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TOKYO, June 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average slumped on Tuesday, surrendering the 20,000 level after losses on Wall Street and a stronger yen sapped sentiment.
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Broader concerns over Lopez Obrador's economic policies sapped investment in Mexico last year and contributed to a slowdown that pushed the economy into a mild recession.
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A litany of poor economic data worldwide sapped Asian markets, though some optimism emerged as China and Japan said they would use fiscal spending to boost growth.
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Trump currently faces one of the most pivotal stretches in his promise to overhaul U.S. trade relationships, which he argues have battered American workers and sapped wages.
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Sometimes the early bands' sets are better than the later ones, when everyone's energy has been sapped by hours in the sun, said Noah Johnson (not pictured).
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European shares ended a choppy session flat as disappointing economic data, including a technical recession in Italy, sapped an early boost provided by the Fed's dovish tone.
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But the rekindled fears of protectionism also sapped risk appetite across wider emerging markets, with bourses in Moscow , Turkey and central Europe also trading in the red.
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When furniture overhauls are out of budget and the more affordable knick-knacks only serve as dust-collectors in already cramped quarters, all redesign inspiration feels sapped.
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They all ushered in the two-tiered system of justice that sapped people's faith in democracy and at least partially led to the rise of Donald Trump.
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Argentina is struggling to stabilize its economy, which has suffered a series of setbacks after a bad drought sapped the grain export sector early in the year.
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The economy grew 3.2% last year, the weakest in 17 years, as a weeks-long political crisis and monetary policy tightenings sapped business confidence and cooled investment.
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On top of that, low prices for commodities, especially oil, sapped stock markets in places dependent on natural resources, like Russia, South America and the Middle East.
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Champions of the agency are imploring him to stay, arguing that if he leaves, the agency is likely to be defanged, its powers to help consumers sapped.
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Demand has been sapped by tougher regulations on bank lending and by a general rise in borrowing standards amid revelations of widespread malpractice in the financial sector.
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The rise of Snapchat may have sapped away Tumblr's core (and highly desirable) teen audience Whatever the case, in the mobile space, Facebook is winning while Yahoo!
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The U.S. numbers came after separate data showing euro zone manufacturing activity contracted for a seventh month in August as a continued decline in demand sapped optimism.
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A month on the injured list with left knee tendinitis sapped some power, and his average fastball speed dipped slightly from the previous season, to 98.9 m.p.h.
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China's resistance stems from the country's surrender after the first Opium War in the mid-1800s, and the one-sided trade treaties that sapped the country's strength.
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The U.S. numbers came after separate data showing euro zone manufacturing activity contracted for a seventh month in August as a continued decline in demand sapped optimism.
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Behind those walls, political and diplomatic energy is sapped by problem after problem, each solution offering a bit of relief but no breakthrough toward ending the war.
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She was a major star reduced to a minor role, largely because of an autoimmune disorder — Sjogren's syndrome, diagnosed in 2011 — that sapped her strength and endurance.
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Confidence in South Africa's economy has been sapped by the chopping and changing of finance ministers four time since the end of 2015 by President Jacob Zuma.
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"I talked to him about how I understood that the groupthink and zealotry and internalized loyalty had sapped me of my own moral compass," Ms. Clark said.
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At 0620 GMT, the rand edged up 0.06% at 14.6410, improving from session's low of 14.6950 on Thursday after a batch of lukewarm economic indicators sapped demand.
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The economy grew 3.2% last year, the weakest in 1643 years, as a weeks-long political crisis and monetary policy tightenings sapped business confidence and cooled investment.
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Weaker-than-anticipated economic data on Monday sapped confidence from the greenback, while oil prices fell yet again despite expectations of supply cuts from OPEC early next month.
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In fact, Mr Johnson has some sympathy with the view that Christianity, with its emphasis on guilt, meekness and self-denial, sapped the strength of the Roman Empire.
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Labor productivity among farm workers fell by 287 percent since the year 2000, mainly because sweltering conditions sapped the strength of workers in nations from India to Brazil.
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Australia's retail sector had shown some signs of life earlier in the year, but that recovery was short-lived as sluggish wages and household incomes sapped spending power.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling fell for a third consecutive day on Thursday as growing political turbulence surrounding Prime Minister Theresa May's government sapped institutional investors' demand for British assets.
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A surprisingly soft reading on U.S. services sector sapped risk appetite and helped to bring down the dollar to a seven-week low of 12.5 yen on Friday.
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Some poor company earnings and ongoing Brexit confusion had sapped the main FTSE, DAX and CAC 40 bourses in Europe following a somewhat more eventful session in Asia.
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The tankan showed that rising raw material costs and a string of natural disasters that disrupted production sapped business confidence among Japan's big manufacturers in the September quarter.
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Temer needs to confirm Rousseff's ouster as quickly as possible to gain legitimacy for tough measures to salvage Brazil's tanking economy, which has sapped revenue for public services.
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The tit-for-tat trade war between the world's top two economies has sapped demand for metals and overshadowed strong fundamentals in markets such as copper, analysts say.
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In recent years, bank stocks have been held back by heavy regulation and historically low interest rates which have sapped the earnings potential of their massive cash holdings.
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The one early slip up I did make happened when a Nor'Easter sapped my will to go to the grocery store on the way home from the gym.
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The U.S. dollar sagged against the euro and the yen after downbeat productivity data sapped some of the momentum it had gained from last week's robust jobs report.
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India's auto sector has gone into a tailspin this year as tight liquidity at shadow banks, high taxes and a weak rural economy have sapped consumers' buying power.
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But years of French economic underperformance, ambivalence about reforms and repeated violations of EU fiscal rules have sapped German confidence in its neighbor, dimming prospects for a deal.
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If they did not quite puncture his aura – he did escape a bases-loaded, no-out jam — at least they may have sapped his strength for Game 2.
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The teams are weaker, sapped by dozens of defections, and the Cuban fans who filled Estadio Latinoamericano on Tuesday seemed to have realistic expectations for what might occur.
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The tiny territory, home to 600,000 people, saw revenues plummet to five year lows after President Xi Jinping announced an anti-graft campaign which sapped sentiment in gambling.
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Higher peak-related costs, integration costs of its Dutch TNT Express unit, bad weather, and other factors sapped profit by about $170 million year-over-year, FedEx said.
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Croatia, beaten by the French in the 1998 semi-finals in their first World Cup appearance, continued to press but their energy was sapped and France held out.
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Two years of heavy spring rains in Kansas, the largest producer of hard winter wheat, have sapped the protein levels of a crop that thrives in arid conditions.
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But economists from both parties and Wall Street alike agree that Trump's start-and-stop trade conflicts have sapped national output by raising prices and dampening business investment.
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Part of that entails a 2 percent inflation rate that officials believe promotes a healthy level of growth but not so much that buying power is sapped significantly.
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Since announcing its renewable plans, Egypt has also commissioned megaprojects from firms like Siemens, which dwarf FiT schemes and, analysts say, have sapped the urgency to push through.
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On issues from trade to Afghanistan, Buttigieg's worldview is a rejection of the transactional Trumpism that has cost America strategic relationship and sapped trust in our diplomacy abroad.
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As a candidate, Trump railed against NAFTA and other free trade deals, saying they sapped manufacturing jobs from American workers as companies sought to pay lower wages abroad.
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In 2011, for example, Hurricane Irene (pictured above) made landfall with far less intensity than predicted, after it ran into a pool of cold water that sapped its energy.
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Its shares fell 222 percent and analysts cut their forecasts as HSBC reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenue amid tumbling stock markets that sapped customer's confidence in investing.
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A public spat between him and revenue service chief Tom Moyane has sapped confidence, and there are worries about whether Gordhan has the full backing of President Jacob Zuma.
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The Chinese yuan's slump to an 0.63-year low also sapped their appetite for risk, with dealers saying state-owned banks were seen selling dollars to support the yuan.
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The Chinese yuan's slump to an 255.91-year low also sapped their appetite for risk, with dealers saying state-owned banks were seen selling dollars to support the yuan.
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The shutdowns have sapped the region's gasoline inventories, which totaled 29 million barrels in the week ended April 5, lowest seasonally since 2016, U.S. Energy Information Administration data showed.
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The Chinese yuan's slump to an 60.48-year low also sapped their appetite for risk, with dealers saying state-owned banks were seen selling dollars to support the yuan.
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Low oil prices and jitters about terrorism may have sapped demand for business and leisure travel—particularly in their neighbourhood—but overall the global economy is holding up well.
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Investor confidence has been sapped by doubts over its management and strategy and in April it announced Ruth Cairnie would take over from Mike Turner as chair in July.
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U.S. stocks suffered their biggest drop in three months on Thursday as the turmoil surrounding the White House sapped investor confidence that Trump's ambitious economic agenda would become reality.
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In a turbulent year, most of the world's most popular asset classes have been sapped by concerns about the world economy and political upheaval, including Britain's possible EU exit.
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European geopolitical fears sapped risk appetite, weighing on Asian stocks and lifting safe havens including the yen and gold, though trading was thin with several markets closed for holidays.
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Shrinking demand from China and a glut of supply have sapped the value of exports from Australia, Brazil and Canada, among other places, causing their currencies to wilt, too.
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More important, her wins have increased her power over her caucus, while Trump's failures and the regular revelations of his inability to function as president, have sapped his strength.
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Parkinson's may have sapped him of his most obvious strengths, making him a physical shadow of his earlier self and taking away much of the sound of his voice.
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Crude steel production dropped 21 percent to 7.83 million tonnes, the first yearly fall since 27.8, with the entire sector sapped by weak demand and a colossal supply glut.
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Wages are high, the unemployment rate is ticking downward, and job growth is holding steady — but Trump's ongoing trade wars with China and European countries have sapped business confidence.
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She's been the more classically Walter White-esque figure, in that she embraces her work — "likes" would be the wrong word — and seems invigorated rather than sapped by it.
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Once the off-screen drama between replacement judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey had sapped the joy from that as well, there was really no point to the show.
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Worries about slowing global growth and peaking corporate earnings have sapped risk appetite in recent months, throwing into doubt the longevity of the decade-old bull run for stocks.
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But Ryan entered politics as a devotee of 20th-century author Ayn Rand, who opposed tax-and-spend benefit programs as immoral confiscation that sapped the power of capitalism.
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Infighting within the ruling African National Congress ahead of a conference in December to elect a successor to President Jacob Zuma as party chief has also sapped investor confidence.
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However, Ali, whose entourage helped him to spend several fortunes, needed money and refused to leave the sport even when it was apparent that age had sapped his talents.
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He hopes a message of combating economic inequality and reining in free trade relationships that sapped Michigan manufacturing jobs will help him compete with Biden for working-class voters.
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He stepped aside, allowing Matt Reeves to take over (and Robert Pattinson to don the cowl), after deciding that the troubled shoot for "Justice League" had sapped his interest.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The yen hovered at multi-month highs against its peers early on Thursday after investors snapped up the safe-haven currency as global uncertainty sapped risk appetite.
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The Australian dollar dipped 0.2 percent, sapped by the data from China, the big buyer of its commodities, although it too was within touching distance of a year-high.
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Top ANC officials, including party leader Cyril Ramaphosa, tried to persuade Zuma to step down in the face of a corruption scandal that has sapped support for the party.
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The warning comes after the world's two largest economies made little progress in negotiations last week, prolonging a row that has unnerved financial markets and sapped demand for metal.
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Despite the dollar's weakness, the euro failed to rally significantly above the $1.14 levels as concerns over negotiations between Brussels and Rome over Italy's budget plans sapped broader appetite.
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Those were things the Steelers failed to do during a four-game losing streak that sapped them of the swagger that had carried them to a 4-1 start.
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Meanwhile, Royan is described by sources close to Mithril as obsessed with trying to plug up leaks in his network, tactics that these sources say have further sapped morale.
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FUNDAMENTALS * SHANGHAI STOCKS: Copper and zinc inventories in warehouses tracked by ShFE climbed to their highest in 11 months, as the outbreak sapped demand in top metals consumer China.
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Injuries have been a fickle foe throughout Griffin's career, and the ones suffered last season (and before it) have sapped some of the essential, springy violence from his game.
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Worries about slowing global growth and peaking corporate earnings have sapped risk appetite in recent months, throwing into doubt the longevity of the nearly 10-year-old bull market.
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Kessler says, in the livestream, that he has been forced to move in with his parents after a series of lawsuits stemming from last year's violence sapped his funds.
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A Switch, running Super Mario Odyssey, is one of the only sources of light when the sun sets on Falmung's small Puerto Rican apartment, sapped of electricity for months.
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Asian share markets retreated on Wednesday and the euro was pressured as doubts over the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and an election looming in France sapped investor confidence.
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The decline in the lira, which lost nearly 30 percent last year, has also sapped confidence among locals, prompting their forex holdings to surge in the six months to April.
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Fillon scored 19 percent of first-round voting intentions in the poll, confirming the task faced by the one-time frontrunner to revive a campaign sapped by a fraud investigation.
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In the finals, with his team sapped by injuries, James dominated the ball, running isolation set after isolation set, as the Warriors passed and cut their way to the championship.
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At the conference, Bannon said that godlessness and libertarianism have "sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals," and the Muslim world is growing in numbers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Western European car sales fell 1 percent in April, according to industry data published on Tuesday, as the unresolved terms of Brexit and broader economic uncertainties sapped demand.
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"That was one of the concerns I had in writing the piece, that the dramatic tension would be sapped by the knowledge that their efforts came to naught," Rich said.
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Netflix — down 22 percent this year after a torrid 2015 — is one of the streaming names that has sapped viewers away from traditional cable channels like those owned by Viacom.
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I realize that maybe doesn't sound very funny, but trust me, at a certain point, you laugh because your numbing corporate job has sapped you of the ability to cry.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Political tensions and a surging euro sent European shares to their lowest in six months on Tuesday after a missile launch by North Korea sapped global risk appetite.
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A decade later, both Mr. Chávez and Mr. Kirchner are dead, the momentum sapped from their leftist movement, and Argentina's new center-right government is pursuing cozier ties with Washington.
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The South China Morning Post reported the truce on Thursday, ahead of the two-day meeting, raising hopes for an end to a trade conflict which has sapped metals demand.
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My guess is that's not how Hidden Agenda is supposed to work, and the experience sapped our enthusiasm for the competitive mode because it lost all sense of being competitive.
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There's no question the unprecedented global outbreak has overshadowed Biden's presumed march to the Democratic nomination and sapped his campaign of some of its momentum over the last two weeks.
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Japan's Nikkei average slipped slightly on Tuesday morning as tech shares and Apple suppliers declined, tracking their U.S. counterparts overnight, while concerns over North Korea sapped risk appetite, Reuters reports.
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An enormous, multiyear project to create a song, video and art installation for her native Detroit, using thousands of recordings she made of real people, sapped some of her energy.
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Whether it was the nightmarishness of the show or simply the cumulative weight of all the years of work, the retrospective sapped Nauman, and he had difficulty returning to work.
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And three years ago, Gura was dealing with Lyme disease, which sapped his strength and damaged his joints for months when he should have been building up his training program.
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But in the past few decades, the party of Davos — with its globalism, relativism, pluralism and diversity — has sapped away the moral foundations of this Judeo-Christian way of life.
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Now Chinese officials are trying harder than ever to avoid a repeat of the financial scare four years ago that sapped its money reserves by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Casting the plastic to streetside, we poured high-potency energy tonics or Coke down our throats, because this time in history had sapped us so thoroughly and we were desperate.
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All of this has occurred amid a bleak backdrop for Japanese equities, as confidence has been sapped by worries over a sputtering economy, anemic inflation, weak external trade and sluggish consumption.
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Gold scaled a six-month peak on Monday as sliding stock markets and concerns about a global economic slowdown sapped risk sentiment, driving investors to seek safety in the precious metal.
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The Fed has said that large settlements of Treasury auctions were at the root of September's disturbance — along with payment of corporate income taxes — that sapped money out of the system.
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German growth contracted in the second quarter on slumping exports as a global trade war, China's own slowdown and Brexit uncertainty sapped confidence, dealing a blow to an export-focused economy.
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TOKYO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Monday in choppy trade after a slightly stronger yen sapped investors' risk appetite, sending stocks such as chip-related firms lower.
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Dreadful state election results, sagging poll numbers and the troubled state of its coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) had sapped morale and boosted calls for Mrs Merkel to step down.
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But, a knee injury ultimately sapped him of his prime years ... forcing him to play in just 17 games in his final three seasons and retire at just 29 years old.
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Whatever transgressive reputation Fontana gained for violating his canvases has been sapped by his success in the commercial art market, which consumes anything monochromatic for regurgitation upon a hotel lobby's wall.
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The new format, based on racers being progressively eliminated during the sessions rather than at the end of each, was intended to add excitement but ultimately sapped much of the suspense.
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Russian steelmakers such as NLMK and its closest rival, Evraz, struggled over the past two years as world steel prices plumbed 11-year lows and Russia's economic crisis sapped domestic demand.
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Netting has become vital for banks to reduce balance sheet usage and mitigate costly capital requirements associated with Basel III rules that many believe have sapped liquidity from sovereign bond markets.
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As lower oil prices reduce inflationary pressure, they sapped momentum for a sell-off in U.S. Treasuries and a rally in the dollar, the market's favourite play since the U.S. election.
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The official commentaries suggested that deep corruption in the People's Liberation Army, especially buying and selling promotions, had sapped the preparedness of officers, and even their loyalty to the Communist Party.
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TOKYO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The dollar sagged against its peers early on Wednesday after downbeat data sapped some of the momentum it had gained from last week's robust U.S. jobs report.
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That in turn has sapped the outright three-month price, with bears once again building short positions to the tune of 3.6% of open interest, according to LME broker Marex Spectron.
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During his campaign, Mr. Trump dwelled on accusations that China had systematically sapped American industrial might, and he has indicated that trade issues will be a priority in dealings with Beijing.
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But they were largely flat-footed in their efforts to grapple with the racial undertow that sapped her support within the Senate chamber and in much of the African-American community.
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Here the young Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng'ok presents evocative images, some sapped of color and others saturated with it, of flowering plants or a young man gazing out a window.
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Bowman produces the salutary tale of a lover whose lust was cruelly sapped by the terror that his lady might discover the false calves he had furtively slipped beneath their pillows.
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In addition to openly supporting Iranian demonstrators, the moderate government in Tehran has enacted Gorbachevian economic and social reforms that sapped Iran's most corrupt, anti-American voices of power and influence.
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Pena Nieto returned the party to power in 2012, but a slew of corruption scandals, ongoing gang violence and anemic growth have sapped the PRI's credibility in the past five years.
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Verlander telegraphed his turnaround in late 2015, when he finally felt strong again after torn abdominal and adductor muscles — and the resulting physical weakness and compromised mechanics — had sapped his dominance.
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Ahead of the vote on May 23rd the new Brexit Party has sapped so much support from her Conservative Party that the Greens briefly polled higher, pushing the Tories into fifth place.
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Companies including market leader NLMK and its closest competitor Evraz have struggled over the last two years as world steel prices plumbed 280-year lows and Russia's economic crisis sapped domestic demand.
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Customers who have a negative, abusive experience with a bank, who find their money sapped by unfair and unreasonable fees, are not going to stick around if they find a fairer option.
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But he faces a year of potentially contentious issues: subduing economic uncertainties that have eroded investors' confidence in his acumen and continuing an anticorruption drive that has sapped officials' incomes and morale.
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The company says that Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers have moved factories elsewhere in Asia to skirt import duties in America, adding to a global glut that has sapped demand for American products.
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Germany's Andrea Petkovic said that heat and fatigue had sapped her mental game, after she was knocked out by the United States' Lauren Davis following a marathon first match and a doubles.
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The surge in appetite for U.S. diesel comes on the heels of a mild winter that sapped demand for heating oil and punished margins as products went straight into bulging storage tanks.
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The utility bills sapped the economy by reducing consumer spending in other areas and boosted inflation as businesses increased the price of goods and services to pay their own rising utility bills.
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But the strong-arm tactics have sapped a lot of energy out of domestic and offshore yuan markets, and it's unclear how sustainable the strategy will be if the dollar is rising.
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De Andrade thus takes on the life cycle of the workers, whose vitality is gradually sapped by years entrapped in a capitalist system, earning a living by the sweat of their brows.
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On Monday, the Charlotte City Council unanimously repealed a local non-discrimination ordinance that was cited as motivation for the controversial state law, known as HB13, that has sapped the state's reputation.
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The economy had already been struggling with growth at a 202019-year low of 3.2% in 2018 as a protracted political crisis and past policy tightenings sapped business confidence and cooled investment.
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Images follow of gloomy-looking young women in that dolorous morning-after condition, flagellating themselves, we are to imagine, for submitting to so many glasses of Syrah that sapped so much productivity.
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Anti-government protesters are expected to descend on the capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday to demonstrate against austerity measures that have sapped growth and driven millions of people below the poverty line.
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In recent decades, a stultifying mix of hyperspecialized research and pressure to emphasize "practical skills" — as well as a political reluctance to prioritize canonical texts or universal questions — have sapped our confidence.
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China's resistance is rooted in history — notably its surrender after the first Opium War in the mid-1800s, and the ensuing series of one-sided trade treaties that sapped the country's strength.
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Demand has been sapped as the virus, which has infected more than 110,000 people and killed over 3,800 worldwide, shows no signs of slowing and sows fears about an impending global recession.
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At night, familiar blocks can carry the vibe of passing through a suburban neighborhood you've never been in before — minimal cars, minimal people, a nagging disorientation, buildings sapped of all their energy.
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He initially accepted Office of Management and Budget's 220006 percent budget cut, made the president's short-term hiring freeze indefinite, and embarked on a workforce reduction exercise that sapped effectiveness and morale.
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While our resolutions (and sapped post-holiday budgets) may be ready to spend less in the new year, we've never been known to turn our savvy shopping backs on a good deal.
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Jesus's "last temptation" isn't to have sex, as some of the film's detractors claimed; it's to give in to his desire to lead the life of a man, sapped of the sacred.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares were on course for their worst month since 25.1 on Friday after a spreading global sell-off hit regional equity markets and missed results expectations sapped risk appetite.
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With her strength in a fractured post-Brexit European Union also sapped, the last thing Merkel needs in the run-up to the election is Deutsche turning to her government for help.
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Pioneering technology brought an influx of investment to each industry, a plethora of new, small companies issued high levels of debt, and a subsequent supply glut sapped pricing just as demand fell sharply.
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Though those grievances remain, and protesters have continued to take to the streets, the assassination sapped energy and attention from key stakeholders who were either engaged with or the target of these efforts.
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The rapidly spreading coronavirus has killed hundreds and sapped fuel demand in China, where thousands of flights have been canceled and the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, remains under quarantine.
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I agree that it seems like the show's writers, in an effort to make Negan as true to the source as possible, have sapped the comic book character of any sense of realism.
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A draft governing program sent to Reuters said the party wants to review and correct "toxic" tax and judicial measures that have sapped courts and prosecutors' independence, enforced over the past three years.
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A procession of storms pushing across the Pacific is bringing at least five days of rain and snow to California, a bit of relief for a state sapped by four years of drought.
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Dodon won the presidential race after campaigning to put the brakes on seven years of closer relations with the EU, after a massive corruption scandal sapped the popularity of his pro-Brussels rivals.
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Satisfied existing customers, a failure to deliver innovation to price points where people would be ready to upgrade, and the almost total absence of Chinese competition have sapped the US phone market's vitality.
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The Justice Department and the FBI stonewalling those with actual oversight responsibilities or have porn stars and Russian collusion conspiracy theories sapped all the media&aposs manpower and all of their energy resources?
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The expected gains in core orders would follow a 9.2 percent drop in February when a strong yen and worries about a slowdown in the global economy sapped firms' willingness to spend more.
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Years of oversupplied grains markets dragged down prices and sapped trading opportunities for the companies, known as the ABCD quartet of grain traders, before trade tensions disrupted demand and redrew global supply chains.
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It's more about mental tiredness, and the way the record has sapped up their attention in a situation in which they'd usually be relaxed and looking ahead to the challenge of the playoffs.
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HONG KONG, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The yuan lost ground on Thursday, retreating further from this week's peak as reports China and the United States may delay a long-awaited preliminary deal sapped confidence.
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Tracey said a strong economy also is contributing to the decline in legal challenges for banks, as low unemployment and rising wages have sapped some of the motivation that's driven prior shareholder lawsuits.
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That's highly unlikely at a time when surging oil and gas production across the U.S. has sapped the energy industry's willingness to drill further in Alaska's remote terrain and face its punishing weather.
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A series of hurricanes, most notably Harvey, which struck Texas in late August sapped demand for crude oil and led to crushing gasoline lines in various parts of the U.S. Southeast and Midwest.
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Godlessness and libertarianism has "sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals," and the Muslim world is growing in numbers, Bannon told a conference at the Vatican in 2014.
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Watch: Barbie Ferreira's Guide to Online Dating Tired of men making her upset and her energy being sapped up by relationships, Kelsey decided to adopt an unusual New Year's Resolution: No Man 2019.
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He missed only one shot in the first half, when the Cavaliers pressured a sapped Knicks defense, flowing into transition, pushing the pace and moving the ball as the defenders played catch-up.
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The future of Japan's troubled regional lenders is a focus for investors, after years of negative interest rates and a declining population have sapped profits and raised questions about their ability to survive.
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Bin Laden sapped America's confidence, wove fear into the nation's fabric, and inspired a metastasizing form of jihadi fanaticism that continues to terrorize the West in the crazed pursuit of a restored caliphate.
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Retailers are caught up in a seemingly never-ending race against Amazon: The more they spend to compete, the more their profits are sapped, write Sapna Maheshwari and Michael Corkery in the NYT.
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For that, they turn to Wags, who hasn't entirely recovered from the uncertainty that sapped his swagger earlier in the season, and Taylor, who takes over as Chief Investment Officer with preternatural confidence.
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The ordeal had changed his thinking about the rebel movement, and he criticized its commanders for the infighting that had long sapped their movement and for the Islamist agenda that some had adopted.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye faces a deepening crisis over allegations an old friend enjoyed inappropriate influence over her, a scandal that has sapped her support to an all-time low.
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China's slowing economy and a pervasive campaign against graft has sapped demand from wealthy gamblers and prompted operators in the southern Chinese territory to shift their focus to lower spend mom and pop gamblers.
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This is particularly threatening to farmers with depleted soils, because overgrazed lands tend to harbor more carbohydrate-rich species—grasses in particular are sapped of their protein as nitrogen washes out of overworked soil.
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By ratifying USMCA, Trump hopes to follow through on one of his key campaign promises: to overhaul trade agreements that he and many Democrats say sapped American jobs in favor of cheaper labor overseas.
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Yes, we now know that "Hodor" means "Hold the door," and that revelation will be sapped of some of its power on the page (even if Martin insists it will happen under different circumstances).
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LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone business growth was sluggish at the start of the third quarter as expected, hampered by a drop in new orders that sapped private-sector optimism, a survey showed on Friday.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar rose versus its major peers on Monday, as investors sought shelter in safe haven currencies as fears of a global growth slowdown and U.S.-Sino trade tensions sapped risk appetite.
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Petrobras last month announced a 25 percent cut in planned investments to reduce its debts and revive investor confidence sapped by a corruption scandal, including a commitment to pull out of the biofuel sector.
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Squeezed by Apple in premium products and undercut by Chinese rivals like Huawei in cheaper devices, Samsung's smartphone profits and global market share have fallen and sapped momentum at South Korea's most valuable company.
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High unemployment, the abundance of seasonal work and of jobs in lower-paid, low-skilled sectors have sapped contributions to Spain's social security system, leaving it short of revenues to foot payouts on pensions.
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The manat's fall in value, driving up consumer prices, triggered protests earlier this year in the ex-Soviet republic, a major oil and gas producer whose budget has been sapped by lower oil prices.
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Latin American airlines have struggled as a global commodities downturn has sapped growth and weakened currencies, but the region's growing middle class and untapped potential still make it an attractive target for foreign carriers.
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From December 2015 to February this year, about 41,000 workers lost their jobs at shipbuilders, according to the labor ministry, as a broad global downturn in demand and plunging commodity prices sapped the industry.
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Minnesota began the season with five consecutive victories - four by at least two scores - but had its momentum sapped by having a bye in Week 6, as it has dropped four in a row.
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But a costly primary sapped much of Young's resources: As of April 13, the last time Young's campaign had to report its fundraising totals, the campaign had just under $1.1 million in the bank.
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In their test, participants were assigned to play video games of varying levels of violence and difficulty, and then later took a brain teaser to test how much of their willpower had been sapped.
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The hardening stance of the democrats and Beijing could perhaps widen, spawning greater radicalism, though some activists also concede a spreading disillusionment has sapped momentum among the democracy movement since Xi came to power.
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But in recent years the company's profitability has been sapped by a combination of weak global demand and sharply increased supply from China, which now accounts for about half the world's steel-making capacity.
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This time the news media helped fan the flames, aided by the activist Sonny Carson, whose intransigence and highly charged rhetoric sapped the resources of David N. Dinkins, the city's first African-American mayor.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian consumers turned glum in October despite three rate cuts since the start of the year as fears about the near-term economic outlook sapped their confidence, according to a key gauge.
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Back in Europe, sterling stayed near a nine-month low against the euro, still sapped by the Bank of England's cut to UK growth forecasts on Thursday which also wiping out rate hike expectations.
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The ancillary nonsense, though, sapped the momentum of the show, which ran three hours and somehow still didn't have room for "The New Girl in Town," a smart, punchy number from the film version.
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Back in Europe, sterling stayed near a nine-month low against the euro, still sapped by the Bank of England's cut to UK growth forecasts on Thursday which had also sideswiped rate hike expectations.
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I was sapped — if not quite of the will to live, then of the will to tweet, to Google and to surf the cable channels, where his furious mien and curious mane are ubiquitous.
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I was sapped — if not quite of the will to live, then of the will to tweet, to Google and to surf the cable channels, where his furious mien and curious mane are ubiquitous.
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Many importers have struggled to obtain foreign currency from banks amid an ongoing shortage that has sapped the country's ability to purchase from abroad, with buyers of essential goods like wheat and medicine given priority.
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N. Latin American airlines have struggled as a global commodities downturn has sapped growth and weakened currencies, but the region's growing middle class and untapped potential still make it an attractive target for foreign carriers.
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Officials said that while the conflagration charred another 2,500 acres overnight, a break in the hot, dry Santa Ana winds on Tuesday sapped its forward momentum and allowed crews to prevent further damage to homes.
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At the end of 2017, television that's great and a small hit and not a cultural force is also television that hasn't had the fun sapped out of it by overindulged saturation point internet bullshit.
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But the effect is uncanny in a different way when photographed: a triangular slice of the palace appears to have been diligently plotted with a few clicks in Photoshop, and then sapped of its color.
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The removal of subsidies is part of austerity measures as the country struggles in the face of inflation running at about 25 percent and an acute shortage of hard currency that has sapped import activity.
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The government's 305,000 workers are demanding wage rises and payments in dollars to help them stave off spiraling inflation and an economic crisis that has sapped supplies of cash, fuel and medicines in state hospitals.
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Some British pension funds have struggled to find sufficient high-yielding, safe investments to meet their liabilities, while the uncertainty following Britain's vote to leave the European Union has sapped private businesses' willingness to invest.
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SANTIAGO, April 11 (Reuters) - Demand for loans in Chile slipped during the first quarter, a central bank poll showed on Monday, as soft economic growth and stubbornly high inflation have sapped consumer and business sentiment.
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Season six winner Bianca del Rio tells me that although craft services provided balanced meals to each contestant when they were sequestered in their hotel rooms, nerves from competing on the show sapped her appetite.
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Republican turnout was sapped by the lack of a seriously contested presidential primary, but the party's voters did have choices in races for the House and Senate and an array of state and local offices.
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MOSCOW — Ukraine won a new lending commitment from the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, a lifeline from the West for a country whose economy has been sapped by corruption and war with Russian-backed separatists.
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Public fury over corruption and political machinations galvanized the 2013-14 street protests that toppled President Viktor F. Yanukovych, and has since sapped support, both inside Ukraine and abroad, for his successor, Petro O. Poroshenko.
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The tension was high, but it was sapped a little by how difficult it's been to care about the whiny, lumpen Pasha — I don't know about you, but I share Elizabeth's low opinion of him.
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The collapse in confidence in the president echoed that of the last phase of President George W. Bush's tenure, when the Iraq war and the global financial crisis had sapped international faith in American leadership.
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Meanwhile the euro was pinned at its lowest level since May 2017 as a steady drip of negative economic data this week sapped investor demand for the single currency, further helping export-oriented European stocks.
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The biggest U.S. wealth managers have been reporting slower profit growth and slipping margins in recent quarters as confusion about markets' direction sapped demand for their services in favor of safe assets, such as cash.
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Japan's yen fell to a two-week low of 109.205 per dollar , while the Swiss franc traded near a six-week low against the greenback as the optimistic tone sapped demand for safe-haven currencies.
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It was, in the end, a safer J'ouvert, with no one killed, but it was also a very different event, sapped of its usual energy, and stifled, some revelers complained, by the vast police presence.
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The government of Latin America's No. 3 economy is gearing up for the renegotiation of about $100 billion in sovereign debt amid an economic crisis that has sapped the peso currency and sent bonds tumbling.
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The cash-strapped country has been borrowing from abroad to fund its budget deficit and boost its balance of foreign reserves after a years-long dollar shortage sapped its ability to import and slowed economic activity.
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While making clear he did not question the firms' motives, Jacobs said the conflict "sapped" their incentive to zealously represent the retailers obtaining injunctive relief, and led to terms that benefited other retailers at their expense.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stock markets fell on Monday as worries about softening demand for the iPhone dragged down shares of Apple Inc and persistent trade tensions between China and the United States sapped investor sentiment.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone sentiment fell as expected for the second month in a row in February from a multi-year high as confidence sapped from every sector except services, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
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Egypt's pound and the Thai baht are 53% and 5.2% higher, while Mexico's peso is now only 2% better off having been sapped by the recent run in with Donald Trump over migrants breaking the border.
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Teachers and other state workers are demanding wage rises and payments in dollars to help them stave off spiraling inflation and an economic crisis that has sapped supplies of cash, fuel and medicines in state hospitals.
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If Egypt's local wheat procurement figures were misrepresented, it may have to spend more on foreign wheat purchases to meet local demand - even as it faces a dollar shortage that has sapped its ability to import.
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Schwartz's retirement eliminates a presumptive CEO candidate with a strong trading background and comes as Goldman Sachs has been trying to reinvent itself after market trends and regulations sapped profits from its once-lucrative trading business.
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TOKYO, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average dropped on Monday in thin trade led by falls in banking and exporter stocks with risk appetite sapped by a pause in the yen's recent tendency to weaken.
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Nadal edged a bruising first set after blowing eight break points with a top-class tiebreak, playing adventurous shots which sapped Goffin's energy and the world number 10 ceded the final point with a double fault.
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First, there's sometimes a religious tinge to his rhetoric — he's argued that "secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals," and has even taken an interest in internal Vatican disputes.
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The agreement was delayed after an earthquake hit PNG in February 2018, which sapped government resources and slowed negotiations over issues such as how much gas from Papua LNG would be reserved for the domestic market.
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The dollar steadied on Wednesday after it took a hard hit in the early reaction to recession concerns and the initial thaw in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing sapped demand for the safe-haven greenback.
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The early election was agreed by parliament last week, ending two years of deep disagreement over Brexit that has sapped investors' faith in the stability of the world's fifth largest economy and damaged Britain's international standing.
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Harris appeared to struggle at times on Wednesday reconciling her progressive policy stances with her record as California's attorney general and may have sapped any momentum her campaign received from her skirmish with Biden in June.
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Weak foreign trade has been the biggest drag on global growth for much of the past year as a tariff war between the United States and China sapped confidence and held back investment, particularly in manufacturing.
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But being frozen out of races in winnable Republican-held districts would have been a major disappointment for Democrats and could have sapped some of the enthusiasm they will need to generate over the coming months.
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The curator of "Sanguine/Bloedrood" is Luc Tuymans — the artist who bestrides Antwerp's scene today as Rubens did four centuries ago, though his paintings are as cool and color-sapped as Rubens's are showy and saturated.
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Economic growth in Chile has lagged over the last two years as investments in the key mining sector dried up in the face of falling copper prices and money-in-politics scandals sapped consumer and business confidence.
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The availability of high-definition video on people's screens or music in their earphones anywhere at any time does not seem to have sapped their enthusiasm for the din and discomfort of a standing-room-only crowd.
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Import-dependent Egypt has been trying to curb a big trade deficit and boost domestic industries after a years-long hard currency shortage that has sapped its ability to purchase from abroad and has hit business activity.
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The color-sapped tedium of office life runs like a flickering current through the warrens of white-collar fiction — from Bartleby impassively facing his brick wall to Frank Wheeler caged in his dark cubicle in ''Revolutionary Road.
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If Egypt's local wheat procurement numbers were misrepresented, it may have to spend more on foreign wheat purchases to meet domestic demand - even as the country faces a dollar shortage that has sapped its ability to import.
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The International Energy Agency said on Wednesday that oil inventories worldwide had tightened after a year-and-a-half of supply cuts by major oil producers, along with Venezuela's ongoing economic crisis that has sapped its production.
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The pan-European stocks index was still on course for a weekly loss after two straight weeks of gains, though, as Brexit chaos, Italy's budget showdown with the European Commission, and anxious oil markets sapped risk appetite.
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Think about our reactions to recent health-care crises: A baby named Charlie Gard, on the other side of the Atlantic, is dying from an awful mitochondrial disease that has sapped his ability to control his body.
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Church leaders said they had stepped forward to mediate and reconcile political parties, which would lay the basis for the recovery of an economy battling a severe dollar shortage that has sapped supplies of fuel and medicines.
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Tax reform, regulatory reform and infrastructure spending should have encouraged greater capital spending to stretch out the economic cycle, but c-suite confidence has been sapped by tough trade talk, Syria and every other threat Trump makes.
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The Yankees have their own young stars, but Gary Sanchez has only appeared in 66 games this season, and even then as a diminished version of himself, his power sapped by the injuries that have sidelined him.
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Demand for seeds, fertilizer and other agricultural materials — which flourished as rising Chinese demand and American ethanol production drove up crop prices — has slumped in the face of a global grain glut that has sapped farm income.
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Brazilian consumer prices gained 215 percent in the month to mid-August due to a one-off increase in fuel taxes, as well as a regulatory decision to raise power rates as scarcer rains sapped hydroelectric generation.
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There, an enterprising chef decided that the traditional way of preserving fish and rice — in which they were arranged in layers, pressed under weights and left to ferment — took too long and sapped flavor from the fish.
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While currencies of some oil-exporters benefit from the steep rise in oil prices, concerns that an oil supply shock and growing geopolitical tensions would damage an already fragile global economy sapped investor demand for riskier assets.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone manufacturing activity contracted for a seventh month in August as a continued decline in demand sapped optimism, a survey showed, likely strengthening expectations for monetary easing from the European Central Bank next week.
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But the solid 5.3-point win over a surging Bernie Sanders, which sapped some of the Vermont senator's momentum and juiced fundraising, is still being hailed by Clinton allies as a turning point for the campaign's morale.
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He is presenting himself as an antidote to the politics-as-brawl predilection that has become so central to the messaging of both parties and, he believes, has sapped the electorate of any hope for an alternative.
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And as briefly luminous scenes in Los Angeles and Manhattan give way to Bella's drab council house (whose screeching wallpaper would have sapped anyone's will to live), Mr. McGuigan labors to dispel the odor of the grave.
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Nearby works in the smaller "Pod Worlds" cases include miniature landscapes like the "Bleached Reef," which respond more directly to coral decay, where its algae-powered color is sapped due to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A world stock index climbed as bank and energy shares rose on Friday, but the momentum was sapped by a report that Washington may fire a new salvo in its trade war with Beijing.
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In the meantime, Trump's unignorable presence has sapped any urgency out of the movies about US politics that have come out this year (Adam McKay's Dick Cheney film Vice, a still-unseen question mark, isn't due until December).
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The start-up of three LNG export plants in northeastern Australia has sapped gas from the local market and also led to higher prices, as most of the new supply is from higher cost coal seam gas wells.
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On November 22nd French competition officials raided its offices, seeking evidence that its dominant position is squeezing rivals and sending prices higher than they should be (even though lower electricity prices in recent years have sapped its revenues).
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Overall, however, there was a sense of relief that Bud had been sapped of most of its punch from when it was a Category 4 hurricane two days earlier with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (210 kph).
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A more than halving of oil prices since 2014 has sapped the supply of foreign currency in Nigeria, making it difficult for businesses to import basic equipment or for foreigners to repatriate dollars, raising the risks for investors.
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The U.S. aerospace and defense company said the cost of ramping up production of next-generation Gulfstream business jets has sapped profits in its highest margin unit, overshadowing a strong fourth-quarter performance, led by information technology services.
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After taking over as CEO in late September, company veteran Ian McIntosh said year-to-date results had "significantly improved", suggesting an upturn after a first half sapped by a soy price-hedging effect and emerging trade tensions.
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Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, stagnated last quarter and Italy is in outright recession, raising the risk that a temporary slowdown becomes a more lasting downturn as business confidence is sapped by a steady flow of negative news.
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Political tensions in the U.S. also capped Wall Street gains, as the fallout from the sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday sapped confidence in U.S. President Donald Trump's ability to push through his economic agenda.
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But they also acknowledge that some issues in the recent past — the spotlight on her earnings after leaving the State Department or the long-running controversy over her private email server — may have sapped public sympathy for her.
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Ultimately, though, the scheduling issues and the hoops that organizers would have to jump through in order to meet the Warren campaign's exacting standards sapped enthusiasm for a high-dollar event, and so organizers eventually pulled the plug.
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But some of those countries have felt the brunt of the global slump in commodity prices, which has sapped government budgets and caused the likes of Zambia and Mozambique to turn to the International Monetary Fund for support.
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Such a debate would be an embarrassment for Kramp-Karrenbauer, who won the CDU party chair last December before committing a series of gaffes that have sapped her popularity and raised questions about her credentials to succeed Merkel.
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As an economic crisis in Brazil sapped demand for many of Argentina's industrial exports over the past year, the government also fell behind on paying for many public works, leaving builders without the cash needed to keep workers.
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Despite Mr. Maduro's low popularity, however, the opposition's momentum has been sapped as Mr. Guaidó has failed to depose the president or solve the shortages of food, medicine, water and power that plague the country's 30 million people.
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But much of Simpson's leverage had been sapped by his own agent's savvy, by the fact that many of his endorsement deals hinged on the notion that he actually play football, preferably in the AFL or the NFL.
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Still, a strong U.S. dollar sapped some of the price strength, and both crude benchmarks remained nearly 0003 percent below the highs reached after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries announced plans to cut production late last month.
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Several OPEC sources said Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies would propose to set a new collective ceiling in an attempt to repair OPEC's waning importance and end a market-share battle that has sapped prices and cut investment.
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Years of ultra-low interest rates and an overcrowded banking market—most of which is served by public-sector and co-operative lenders—have sapped profitability, even though both Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank are well capitalised and amply liquid.
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If the numbers were misrepresented, the world's top importer of the grain may have to spend more on foreign wheat purchases to meet local demand, even as it faces a dollar shortage that has sapped its ability to import.
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TOKYO, Aug 5503 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds largely firmed on Tuesday as a North Korean missile launch sapped investors' appetite for risk, with the benchmark 10-year yield falling to zero for the first time in over four months.
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High inflation caused by the pound's fall after the Brexit vote has sapped consumer demand over the past year, and British growth has slowed to be the weakest of any major economy at a time of a global upturn.
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The president has slammed NAFTA, and Mexico's role in it in particular, saying it has sapped manufacturing jobs from the U.S. The administration has suggested it will try to seek bilateral trade deals rather than those with several nations.
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HONG KONG, March 28 (Reuters) - China's yuan fell on Thursday, touching a five-week low, as trade negotiators from Beijing and Washington wrestled with a range of issues while lingering fears of a sharper global economic downturn sapped confidence.
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PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron's special advisor Ismael Emelien joined a wave of departures from the Elysee as the French leader struggles to rebuild his popularity, sapped by "yellow vest" protests and a scandal surrounding his former security chief.
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LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Emerging equities retreated from last week's three-year highs on Tuesday after a North Korean missile test sapped Asia's big bourses, though dollar weakness capped the losses, with China's yuan approaching a one-year high.
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That would undermine the impact of supply cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which partly aimed to force traders holding oil in storage to sell to reduce bloated inventories that have sapped global prices.
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But since then an escalation in trade tensions between the United States and China, plus a growing swathe of global government bond yields sinking into negative territory thanks to a worsening economic outlook, has sapped demand for the euro.
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The two most promising policy ideas to do so are refundable tax credits to those whose earnings are too low for them to make ends meet, and subsidized employment in places where trade imbalances have long sapped labor demand.
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His eight-year papacy was noted for its doctrinal orthodoxy but also for public-relations disasters — including an early speech that offended much of the Muslim world — that church experts said sapped influence and power from the shy German.
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But since then an escalation in trade tensions between the United States and China, plus a growing swathe of global government bond yields sinking into negative territory thanks to a worsening economic outlook, has sapped demand for the euro.
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LONDON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Euro zone manufacturing activity contracted for a seventh month in August as a continued decline in demand sapped optimism, a survey showed, likely strengthening expectations for monetary easing from the European Central Bank next week.
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The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon's film "21966 Hour Psycho" (21966) is materially the same as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (20133), except run in ruthlessly slow motion, silent, attenuated and sapped of drama, forcing the audience to project and manufacture meaning.
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"The Q22021 data was disappointing as the trade war weighed on exports and investments whilst the lagged effect of the government formation and budget bill approval sapped fiscal expansion," said Kobsidthi Silpachai, head of capital markets research at Kasikornbank.
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While safety lapses have been going on at some companies for years or even decades, the decline of the lifetime employment system has likely sapped the loyalty of workers who are more likely to raise concerns themselves, Kunihiro added.
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Sterling fell half a percent to a 1-1/2 week low on Friday as a resurgent dollar and comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that a possible trade deal was probably dead sapped demand for the British currency.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau fell for a third year in a row in 27.9790 as a prolonged anti-corruption campaign and slowing economic growth sapped sentiment in the world's largest casino hub.
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Egypt's pound EGP= and the Thai baht THB= are 53% and 5.2% higher, while Mexico's peso MXN= is now only 2% better off having been sapped by the recent run in with Donald Trump over migrants breaking the border.
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SAO PAULO, March 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aereas made deeper capacity cuts following a heavy fourth-quarter loss as an economic crisis sapped demand and weakened the local currency, driving up the cost of servicing hefty foreign debts.
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Meituan Dianping, which has a market valuation of around $42 billion, has seen its shares drop 13 percent since listing amid cooler economic growth and a biting trade war between China and the United States which has sapped investor confidence.
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In June, Interior Minister Jorge Burgos, who also led the cabinet, resigned after policy disputes, while a student protest that ended with violent confrontations with police and the sacking of a Catholic church also sapped the president's popularity, Adimark said.
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Sterling fell half a percent to a 1-1/2 week low on Friday as a resurgent dollar and comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that a possible U.S.-British trade deal was probably dead sapped demand for the pound.
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The currency was last traded at 3.9480 onshore on Tuesday and has been a relative outperformer in the region as a combination of rising U.S. yields, recovering oil prices and global trade tensions have sapped most high-yielding emerging market currencies.
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The measures come after inflation sped up to 4.7 percent in March and was running at a 12-month rate of almost 55 percent, a trend that has sapped people's spending power and hammered President Mauricio Macri in the polls.
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Steel manufacturers in Russia, such as market leader NLMK and its closest competitor Evraz, have struggled over the last two years as oversupply helped to push world steel prices to 11-year lows and Russia's economic crisis sapped domestic demand.
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Though, as she'd mentioned, she began her career investigating white supremacists groups at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Benson is running a campaign that has been deliberately sapped of high-pitch emotional appeals, aggressive anti-Trump rhetoric, or overt progressivism.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept 9 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand weakened slightly on Friday as doubts over Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's tenure and uncertainty in global markets over the path of interests rates in the United States and Europe sapped the currency's recent momentum.
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Over-the-counter supplements, like the amino acid 5HTP, can help replenish serotonin—the "joy chemical" sapped from your brain during MDMA use, making you feel depressed the day after—as can amino acid-rich food like turkey, salmon, and quinoa.
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Inpex Corp dropped 2.6 percent and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co tumbled 6.1 percent after U.S. oil prices slipped on Tuesday, extending losses into a second session, as a strengthening dollar sapped demand for crude, while rising U.S. output helped dampen prices.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's "absolute power" in its region has sapped the capacity of arch-enemy the United States to wage war against it, the commander of its elite Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday, according to semi-official Mehr news agency.
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Oli has said he will promote peace, stability and development in one of the world's poorest countries where revolving-door coalitions have sapped business confidence, curbed growth, spurred corruption and slowed reconstruction after a 2015 earthquake that killed 9,000 people.
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In his campaign, Trump railed against NAFTA, saying that the deal has sapped manufacturing jobs from the U.S. He has kept up that rhetoric since he took office, and his administration has taken actions against what it deems unfair Canadian practices.
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TOKYO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged up in choppy trade on Tuesday, but the broader Topix ended flat as a solid yen and worries about possible policy moves by the central bank next week sapped risk appetite.
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As a long-running U.S.-Sino trade war and tech sector slowdown sapped growth, the Fed pivoted, moving from shrinking its balance sheet by around $50 billion per month through July, to expanding it by $60 billion monthly by October.
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Soon-to-retire sales chief John Leahy has been asked to stay until the end of the year to help steady the operation, but his successor has not been officially confirmed, adding a sense of vacuum that has also sapped morale.
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Meituan Dianping now has a market valuation of around $38.5 billion, having seen its shares drop 25 percent since listing amid cooler economic growth and a biting trade war between China and the United States which has sapped investor confidence.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Doctors for the Belgian Olympic medical team suspect polluted water in Rio's Guanabara Bay is responsible for a serious illness that sapped the strength of Evi Van Acker, Laser Radial 2012 bronze medalist, her coach told Reuters.
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Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, stagnated in the fourth quarter and Italy is in outright recession, raising the risk that a temporary slowdown will become a more lasting downturn as business confidence is sapped by a steady flow of negative news.
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Sterling fell 0.8 percent to a 1-1/2 week low on Friday of $1.3103 as a resurgent dollar and comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that a possible U.S.-British trade deal was probably dead sapped demand for the pound.
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The organization is facing a bevy of lawsuits and an exodus from its executive board amidst ongoing infighting that has sapped its financial resources as well as its ability to mount an effective push against any new gun control legislation.
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Despite the strong support, stiff opposition from Mr. Sessions and a few other outspoken Republicans — Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia among them — stalled the bill in the Senate and sapped momentum from a simultaneous House effort.
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Inpex Corp dropped 1.7 percent and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co tumbled 4.6 percent after U.S. oil slipped on Tuesday, extending losses into a second session, as a strengthening dollar sapped demand for crude, while rising U.S. output helped dampen prices.
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The experiment has had mixed results, as output in the United States has proved more resilient than some analysts expected while the resulting low prices have sapped the finances of countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, which depend on oil revenues.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May reappointed most of her ministers on Sunday but brought a Brexit campaigner and party rival into government to try to unite her Conservatives after a disastrous election sapped her authority, days before Brexit talks begin.
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U.S. industrial output fell in August for the first time since January as Hurricane Harvey battered oil, gas and chemical plants along the Gulf Coast and a cool summer sapped utility demand in the east, the Federal Reserve said on Friday.
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The southern African nation is in the grip of a severe shortage of U.S. dollars that has sapped supplies of fuel and drugs, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa struggles to live up to pre-election promises to quickly revive the troubled economy.
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One final stop — Stephon Gilmore's interception near the goal line with 4 minutes 17 seconds remaining — punctuated a defensive effort that evoked Belichick's first masterpiece against the Rams, when he sapped their potency by erasing the versatile back Marshall Faulk.
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Nine-times PGA Tour winner Appleby said he was nowhere close to swinging at 100 percent over a year after his 2015 surgery, nerve impingement having sapped some of the strength from his left leg and requiring him to retrain his motor patterns.
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CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldovans go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential race that could propel a pro-Russian Socialist candidate to power after disclosure of a billion dollar corruption scandal that has sapped trust in politicians favouring closer ties with the West.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will reduce the number of statutory working days for its coal miners to 276 a year from 330 as it bids to tackle a chronic supply glut that has sapped prices, the country's work safety watchdog said on Monday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Doctors for the Belgian Olympic medical team suspect polluted water in Rio's Guanabara Bay is responsible for a serious illness that sapped the strength of Evi Van Acker, Laser Radial 2012 bronze medallist, her coach told Reuters.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is close to an accord over a contractual dispute with the builders of several gas pipelines, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday, heralding a solution to a case that has sapped investor confidence in his administration.
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And it's no wonder folks will have to fork over that fat price tag: Spaceport America, the 18,000-acre commercial spaceport in New Mexico and the first in the world, cost over $200 million and sapped the state of 108 million taxpayer dollars.
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Bunge and its agribusiness peers Archer Daniels Midland Co , Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co have been cutting costs and restructuring operations as years of oversupplied grains markets dragged down prices and sapped trading opportunities for quartet, known as the ABCDs of grain.
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Meanwhile the lure of the public sector—which was expanded to create more posts for bumiputeras, and in which Malays are now vastly over-represented—has sapped entrepreneurial vigour among Malays, as has a welter of grants and soft loans for bumiputera firms.
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Steep drops in equity markets over the last two months have sapped investor confidence, spurring fund managers to predict global growth to weaken over the next 21.8 months, the worst outlook in a decade, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's December investor survey showed.
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Steep declines in equity markets over the last two months have sapped investor confidence, spurring fund managers to predict global growth to weaken over the next 12 months, the worst outlook in a decade, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's December investor survey showed.
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Over the last five years, conflicts in Syria and Iraq have continued to frustrate the United States diplomatically, sapped military resources and provided a breeding ground for Islamic State radicals, who have spread bloodshed and destruction in the region and the West.
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President Erdogan was able to use the FaceTime smartphone app to call a TV station, a bizarre scenario that risked the appearance of weakness but also sapped plotters' momentum and allowed him to call for the public to flood the streets in opposition.
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Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, stagnated in the fourth quarter and Italy is in outright recession, raising the risk that a temporary slowdown will become a more lasting downturn as business confidence is sapped by a steady flow of negative news.
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And a lot of the money has been sapped from one authority in particular: the M.T.A. The authority — a sophisticated operation that contracts with multiple bond experts — has had to pay $328 million in bond issuance fees over the past 15 years.
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The confrontation, according to a Mexican official, chilled the warmth and good will that had been built up between the two sides over months of negotiations, and sapped whatever level of trust had been developed after a difficult start to the relationship.
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The dollar rose against Japanese yen on Thursday as optimism around easing trade tensions between the United States and China sapped demand for the safe-haven currencies, even as the holiday-thinned trading kept large moves in the FX market in check.
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The return of Prachanda, who still uses his nom de guerre, which means "fierce", but has lost his former Robin Hood image, is unlikely to end the revolving-door politics that has sapped business confidence in one of the world's poorest countries.
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Kendra doesn't think she'll be able to sleep — she's not tired; her day has hardly started — but the Bloody Marys have sapped her strength and before long she is falling, falling, the buzz of an outboard motor fussing in through the screen.
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"Otello" was presented in the LightSpace Studios in Williamsburg, a high-ceilinged photo and film production house whose smooth walls emitted a penetrating odor of fresh plaster and paint and created harsh acoustics that in places sapped all warmth from the voices.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Rising raw material costs and a string of natural disasters that disrupted production sapped business confidence among Japan's big manufacturers in the September quarter, a central bank survey showed on Monday, taking it to the lowest in more than a year.
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The acts of political violence that the film shows — a coordinated attack on three buildings in Paris, along with the symbolic dousing in flames of the bronze statue of Jeanne d'Arc located near the Palais-Royal — are hollow symbols sapped of meaning.
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But the bear raid has undeniably shredded the nerves of investors, sapped risk appetites, built a tall wall of worry, replaced greed with fear — to the point where overall Wall Street sentiment has reached a zone where it represents a bullish factor for forward returns.
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He argued that Republican policies—from trade deals that above all affected low-skilled manufacturing jobs to "right-to-work" laws that sapped labour power—could be seen as ways to alter the balance of economic power as much as principled attempts to liberate markets.
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The tender comes despite an acute dollar shortage that has sapped the country's ability to purchase from abroad and forced its central bank to ration dollars for essential commodities, the result of a 2011 uprising that chased away tourists, foreign investors and their hard currency.
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The virus outbreak in China has sapped risk appetite around the world recently but stimulus and containment measures from China were well-received by investors, even as the death toll from the fast-spreading virus in mainland China jumped to 563 as of Thursday.
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The former British territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" pact meant to safeguard its ways but the refusal of Beijing to give ground on a demand for full democracy has sapped many people's faith in the formula.
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Hunt said the Brexit process had sapped Britain's national confidence "We need to remember now what we are capable of as a country and we need to remember that the economy has not suffered in the way many people thought it would," he said.
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S.-Korea group to buy chip unit * Takata has dropped 20.4 pct over past 21 days By Ayai Tomisawa TOKYO, June 2611.56 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Wednesday as a stronger yen sapped risk appetite, while mining stocks underperformed as oil prices tumbled.
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"Imagine the privilege, or lack of understanding, to be able to refer to doing work around the house as "helping," he wrote, adding, "If you're only "helping" then I bet you there is someone in your house who is feeling overworked and emotionally sapped.
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TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds slipped on Monday, pulling yields away from recent lows, as investors' risk aversion waned after the weekend passed without any missile launches by North Korea and sapped some of the safe-haven appeal of fixed-income assets.
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While the "one city" banners remain, the inquiries into Mr. de Blasio and his aides have sapped much of the mayor's ability to court new voters at the moment, some of his advisers believe, especially skeptical whites who have mostly shunned the mayor's agenda.
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In a sign of just how far the three-year Brexit crisis has sapped British power, May dashed to Berlin and Paris to ask Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to allow the world's fifth largest economy to put off its divorce from April 12.
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In a sign of just how far the three-year Brexit crisis has sapped British power, May dashed to Berlin and Paris on Tuesday to ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Macron to allow the world's fifth largest economy to delay for a second time.
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Like much of contemporary feminism, International Women's Day has been sapped of its politics: Instead, every year, women are fed pollyannaish platitudes about their strength and courage, even as those with the power to improve the material conditions of women's lives decline to do so.
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In other words, unlike in some other places around the world (look at many countries in Europe, for example), where regulations have sapped the labor market of its vitality and led to permanently high unemployment rates, the U.S. job arena is healthy, dynamic and resilient.
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A combination of disgust with Chargers ownership—the bumbling Spanos family, too incompetent to reach actual villainy—and a growing dislike of the NFL's gradual transformation into the hokiest film's evil villain has pretty much sapped away my interest in and enjoyment of football.
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That investigation found that a mile of train track in New York cost at least five times as much as anywhere else in the world, an inefficient use of money that had sapped funding that could have been used to fix the aging subway system.
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In a sign of just how far the three-year Brexit crisis has sapped British power, May dashed to Berlin and Paris to ask Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to allow the world's fifth-largest economy to put off its divorce from April 12.
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But with his team trailing, 20-63, with 11 minutes remaining, after Jack's interception return had sapped the energy out of the stadium, Barkley, breaking two tackles, zoomed out to the edge and down the sideline for 68 yards and his first career N.F.L. touchdown.
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I can perceive all the value systems encoded here: sapped by the torpid decadence of India, with its eternal servitude, Mary can be healed only by contact with the rugged moors and wholesome English Nature, and by learning to respect the robust English working classes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to buy previously owned homes fell more than expected in August to their lowest level in about 1-1/2 years as the housing market continues to be sapped by a shortage of inventory that is also pushing up home prices.
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Hunt said the Brexit process had sapped Britain's national confidence "We need to remember now what we are capable of as a country and we need to remember that the economy has not suffered in the way many people thought it would," he said.
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Bunge and its agribusiness peers Archer Daniels Midland Co , Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co have been cutting costs and restructuring operations as years of oversupplied grains markets dragged down prices and sapped trading opportunities for the companies, known as the ABCD quartet of grain traders.
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An axiom of conservative thought holds that a representative democracy, with a high rate of participation, will inevitably fail, because the underclass will vote for more and more downward wealth redistribution until socialism takes hold, or the country gets sapped of productive incentives and the economy collapses.
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"It sapped a lot of the optimism that this was going to be easy and that the Republicans were going to be able to use their clean sweep to quickly pass legislation, " said Mark Cabana, head of U.S. short-rate strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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The FTSE 100 rebounded from Thursday's plunge to gain 1.1 percent, but put in its worst weekly performance in two months as jitters over Britain's divorce from the European Union, the U.S.-China trade war and worries about global growth sapped confidence in the UK market.
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But as the game approached, he tried to dispel any notion that his energy remained sapped, dashing down the field just before kickoff while shouting and waving his arms to incite the Oklahoma side in the sea of red that made up the Rose Bowl crowd.
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Almost from the moment Salah trudged down the tunnel, heartbroken, however, it was clear something was different: whether Liverpool's confidence had been sapped by the departure of its record-breaking talisman, or whether Real suddenly felt liberated by his absence, or both, is hard to say.
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Speaking at ISDA's annual general meeting in Lisbon, Giancarlo warned that stringent Basel III demands have sapped capital from trading activities, leading to reduced market liquidity that may have been the trigger for more than a dozen major flash trading events since the passage of Dodd-Frank.
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Joe Cokanasiga and fellow winger Ruaridh McConnochie will make their World Cup debuts and look to stretch the Americans, with Jones hoping his side takes better care of the ball than they did against Tonga, when a series of handling errors and penalties sapped their momentum.
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Four years later, as Prime Minister Modi mobilizes to win re-election in May, he and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are being buffeted for a lack of jobs, falling farm prices and rural wages, a tax reform that led to unemployment and a demonetization exercise that sapped liquidity.
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Shot in Eastwood's typical workmanlike style, so sapped of color that it sometimes approaches black and white, the movie excels at capturing both the moment-to-moment drama of ditching the plane and the remarkable calm that Sullenberger and his crew displayed while making life-or-death decisions.
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EDP posted a weaker-than-expected 2017 profit after its revenue fell 6 percent as a severe drought in Portugal and Spain sapped its reservoirs for hydropower and forced it to resort to more expensive power generation including coal and combined cycle plants, the company said in March.
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HONG KONG — Since he took power seven years ago, President Xi Jinping has faced a growing din of foreign condemnation over his government's human rights record, a trade war that has sapped China's strength and now, for a second time, mass protests in the streets of Hong Kong.
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It upsets me that our energies as a society are being sapped by the President's culture of divisiveness in Washington," he said Friday in New Hampshire, adding later, "Because of the many concerns I've talked about today, I've established an exploratory committee ... as a Republican in the 2020 election.
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The dollar, which started the week on a weak footing as a thaw in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing sapped demand for the safe-haven greenback, extended its fall as investors fretted about an inversion of the short end of the U.S. yield curve in bond markets.
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That was never more apparent than over the last week, when fresh questions about his refusal to release his tax returns and the blocking of his executive order sapped the spotlight from his efforts to build support for the health measure and even the unveiling of his first budget.
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The Browns had a brief flare of momentum when they scored a touchdown with 23 seconds left in the second quarter on a 12-yard pass from Cody Kessler to Terrelle Pryor, but Elliott's second touchdown sapped the Browns, who are 1-19 in their last 20 games.
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While the College Football Playoff has sapped the importance of some lower-tier bowl games, the Rose Bowl still matters to Big Ten and Pac 12 schools, and Wisconsin is no doubt eager to get back in the win column after losing their past three trips to Pasadena.
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S.-Korea group to buy chip unit * Takata has dropped 20.2 pct over past 21 days By Ayai Tomisawa TOKYO, June 2614.88 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged down on Wednesday morning after a slightly stronger yen sapped risk appetite, while mining stocks underperformed on the back of weaker oil prices.
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The moves pushed down the premium investors demand for holding Italian risk relative to that of safer Germany to around 290 bps, down from a five-year high over 300 bps on Tuesday and sapped some demand for safe-haven assets such as German bonds, the dollar and Swiss franc.
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In Western societies beset by growing inequality (neo-liberal economics has also sapped the credentials of liberalism), political discourse, debate on college campuses and ranting on social media all reflect a new impatience with multiple truths, a new intolerance and unwillingness to make the compromises that permit liberal democracy to work.
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Argentina's already-struggling economy has suffered a series of setbacks since Macri took power, led by a drought that sapped grain exports earlier this year and a sharp devaluation of its peso currency that prompted the government to seek a $50 billion standby financing deal with the International Monetary Fund.
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Critics in Congress had complained for years about the costs — more than $20153 billion over the life of the program — and reports that some of the C.I.A.-supplied weapons had ended up in the hands of a rebel group tied to Al Qaeda further sapped political support for the program.
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Though London and New York are rivals to host the partial public listing of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, the enthusiasm of some Western business leaders — even for such an important contract — has been sapped by concerns about human rights and a lack of limitations on executive power in Saudi Arabia.
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Add in the grass-roots energy of the liberal resistance to President Donald Trump, the disaffection of moderate suburbanites turned off by Trump and a conservative wing sapped of enthusiasm by Republican infighting, and Democrats see an opportunity for a brighter future in the South starting in next year's midterm elections.
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The improved mood toward Italy also reduced the premium investors demand for holding Italian risk relative to that of safer Germany to around 290 bps, down from a five-year high over 300 bps on Tuesday, and sapped demand for safe-haven assets such as German bonds and Swiss franc.
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His ongoing comments have riled politicians, educators, parents, and students who contend that arming teachers is not the answer to the nation's gun problem, nor should it be the responsibility of a teacher to learn how to carry and use a weapon while also instructing dozens of children in districts already sapped of resources.
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Given the volatility of the period—she ended up cancelling some of the the live dates she planned, in part because emotional toll of singing songs about her breakup with Barney was too much—the warmth of the original is sapped out, leaving an frigid ballad, with Arca's electronic cracks spiderwebbing across its icy surface.
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The companies, including German car group Volkswagen and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp, were some of the hardest hit by Russia's economic downturn, in which annual car sales more than halved from a 20183 peak of almost 3 million vehicles, and a sharp devaluation of the rouble raised prices for imported parts and sapped profits.
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S. market open; new byline; previous TOKYO) NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against Japanese yen on Thursday as optimism around easing trade tensions between the United States and China sapped demand for the safe-haven currencies, even as the holiday-thinned trading kept large moves in the FX market in check.
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The descent into political crisis just days before Brexit talks begin has sapped confidence among business leaders and infuriated bosses who were already grappling with the fallout from the vote to leave the EU. DFS said it now expected to make core earnings of 82 million-87 million pounds ($106 million-$111 million) for its year to end-July.
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With the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump's likely acquittal in his impeachment trial on Wednesday, a Democratic presidential debate on Friday and the New Hampshire primary the following week, the Iowa Democratic Party's inability to deliver a timely caucus result sapped the caucuses' eventual winner of much of the momentum he or she might have gained.
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Britain's descent into political crisis just days before Brexit talks begin has sapped confidence among business leaders and infuriated bosses who were already grappling with the fallout from the vote to leave the EU. Therefore, when the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee meets this week, no one expects a change in rates, according to experts.
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Unlike North Korea's Kim Jong Un, President Rouhani is a true moderate: He has publicly supported Iranians protesting corruption and repression; he has sidelined conservatives itching for war with the United States; his government has launched a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has sapped the power and influence of the most hardline, anti-American elements in Iran.
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Risk aversion receded after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday a U.S. team had arrived in North Korea to prepare for a summit between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump had pulled out of the summit last week, which had sapped investor risk appetite and helped push the dollar to a two-week trough of 108.955 yen on Thursday.
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Expertly shot by Darius Khondji and Diego Garcia, with a synthesiser-heavy score by Cliff Martinez, "Too Old To Die Young" is set in a world sapped of energy, a purgatory where shaded lamps and neon signs furnish nothing more than faint patches of light in the gloom; so maybe it is appropriate that the characters drift around like ghosts.
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An ill-judged snap election in June cost her party its majority in parliament and has sapped her authority at a time when she is trying to heal deep divisions within her own party and negotiate Britain's departure from the EU. The European Parliament's Brexit negotiator doused hopes that those negotiations were nearing a breakthrough, saying "major issues" must still be resolved on safeguarding citizens' rights.
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Critics of the USMCA's predecessor, the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, said it sapped U.S. jobs in favor of cheap labor outside the U.S. Broadman, who also was a senior economic advisor to George H.W. Bush, has urged the Mexican government to clarify that it has already committed to labor reform, irrespective of the USMCA, in order to boost its own domestic economic growth.
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Editor: Peter Cooney + 1 202 19673 8310 Picture Desk: Singapore + 65 6870 3775 Graphics queries: + 65 6870 3595 (All times GMT/ET) Britain's May brings back foe, aiming to unite party before Brexit LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May reappoints most of her ministers but brings a Brexit campaigner and party rival into government to try to unite her Conservatives after a disastrous election sapped her authority, days before Brexit talks begin.
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But despite what far-right figures might claim about working-class resentment of elites, or what liberals might argue about "economic anxiety" giving rise to Donald Trump's presidency, such concerns weren't necessarily the primary cause of the recent far-right swing in the US. True, some voters in black neighborhoods in the Rust Belt may have rejected Hillary Clinton after their communities' wealth was sapped under Barack Obama.
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Thorgy and Chi Chi also wound up on the bottom for their performances, but at least their skills were a bit varied; Thorgy sapped the room of all of its energy playing the violin while dressed as Phyllis Diller, while Chi Chi did a baton-twirling number that would have been cute if she hadn't worn your cousin Jeffrey's church shoes and an outfit she bought on sale at Zazzle.com.
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Many industries are saddled with inventory while financial market gyrations, including lack of clarity on China's currency policy, have also sapped confidence Finance Minister Lou Jiwei on Monday that the 2015 budget deficit was 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), two days after the finance ministry said China had budgeted for a deficit of 3 percent of GDP in 2016 in a bid to support the economy.
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to large cities ordering bars and restaurants to close and sapped demand for air travel, leading many to predict a recession for the U.S. Another PIMCO alum, Mohamed El-Erian of Allianz, harshly criticized the Fed earlier Monday, saying it should have been "laser-focused" on some of the more technical issues in the markets and saved the interest rate cut for later.
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In a sign of just how far the Brexit crisis has sapped British power, May dashed to Berlin and Paris on the eve of the summit to ask Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to allow her to put off the departure date to June 30 from April 12 But in Brussels, a "flextension" until the end of the year or until March 2020 was shaping up to be the most likely option, EU diplomats said.
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If he continues to be cut out of visits of foreign leaders when they come to meet with the president, if he continues to stay silent in the face of major crises or major issues, if he continues to not have a senior leadership just beneath him in the flowchart of the State Department, that's going to be another troubling sign that the State Department is being sapped of its role and influence.
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Although the arrangement gave the Obama campaign highly effective control, it meant that when he was elected, his former campaign manager, David Plouffe, could mothball the entire apparatus, folding Organizing for America, and its 2.23-million-member email list, into the Democratic National Committee as a fully controlled subsidiary—a choice that sapped grassroots energy from the Democratic Party and contributed to its losing 22.2 state legislative seats over the next eight years.
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I say yes – there will be difficulties — though I believe that with energy and application they will be far less serious than some have claimed but if there is one thing that has really sapped the confidence of business over the last three years it is not the decisions we have taken it is our refusal to take decisions and to all those who say we cannot be readyI say do not underestimate this country.
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A flurry of disappointing U.S. earnings including from Boeing and General Motors was set to tug Wall Street off a five-month high too as profit taking on tech stocks and miners sapped Europe.. Focus had also returned to what may happen with tariffs after EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told a Swedish newspaper on Wednesday that the bloc was preparing $20 billion of levies on U.S. goods if Washington imposes them on imported cars.
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S. trade thaw dim over weekend * Dollar subdued as Fed talks about global risks * European stocks struggle with car woes * Wall Street hit by Apple slide, trade woes (Updates to mid-afternoon in U.S. markets, changes comment) By April Joyner NEW YORK, Nov 66.793 (Reuters) - World stocks fell on Monday as worries about softening demand for the iPhone dragged down shares of Apple Inc and persistent trade tensions between China and the United States sapped investor sentiment.
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The greenback rose 0.3 percent to 109.670 yen on an ebb in risk aversion after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday a U.S. team had arrived in North Korea to prepare for a proposed summit between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump had initially pulled out of the summit last week, which had sapped broader investor risk appetite and helped push the dollar to a two-week trough of 108.955 yen on Thursday.
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But the Romanov collapse was so sudden and so thorough that it left no credible institutions capable of governing effectively, let alone in the midst of widespread social turmoil, an imploding economy and the devastations of World War I. To explain the significance of Lenin's return a month after the czar's abdication, Merridale reconstructs a familiar story: how the war sapped confidence in the monarchy; how the provisional government had to share power with the radical Soviet of Workers' Deputies; and how Lenin, learning about the autocracy's collapse from his place of exile in Zurich, was so bent on returning that he accepted the assistance of Germany to travel more than 2,000 miles over eight days in a sealed railway car through Germany, Sweden and Finland before finally reaching Petrograd in April.
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