Self-governance, however, is being replaced by corporate-governance, and your freedom is being sapped in the process.
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Mr Paisley has been sapped by age and by slow-burning resentment at his new politics.
The very success of many parts of the world in limiting population has sapped donors' enthusiasm.
Months of legal wrangling had sapped enthusiasm for the project (Mr Knott-Craig was an early sceptic).
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Lamm says a 12-year legal battle between Winston and his brother, Bruce, sapped the company of money.
Two miles into our northward hike, however, the toil of schlepping our packs over loose sand sapped us.
In recent weeks, the falloff in oil prices has sapped some of the euphoria from ethanol stocks .
As such, each man imposed regulatory-spending-tax-monetary regimes that stifled private-sector incentives, sapped entrepreneurial vitality, and chilled investor risk-taking.
In recent years revenues have been sapped by the economic crisis and the difficulty of attracting rich visitors.
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Much of Germany's second-quarter GDP growth came from trade, even as a wider trade gap sapped America's economy.
Instead, Mr. Obama's power and influence have been sapped as a direct result of his own choices and decisions.
It was a full two seconds faster than his previous effort on a rain-sapped Belmont track a week earlier.
Its forward momentum sapped, the elected council eventually resigned en masse in 2007.
Shooters these days are often brown and gray, sapped of color and detail.
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As the automobile and airplane sapped Rhode Island of its summer prominence, the Ocean House saw its fortunes slowly fade.
For some, the debt crisis has sapped faith in the Dutch political establishment that guided the country into the euro.
Patriotism, too, was necessary, to keep Russia secure from the enemies both within and without that sapped her moral fibre.
The resulting bargains gradually sapped imperial power, and after the Vandals sacked Rome itself, in 455, the last emperor soon departed.
An obsessive concern with the hereafter sapped their will to take practical steps that could have made their lives more bearable.
But the U.S. lead on what is repeatedly described as a "Green New Deal" will have its strength sapped without worldwide co-operation.
This has sapped sales of Windows-based PCs, the foundation of Microsoft's fortunes.
Neil Gillies, chairman of the Democratic Party in Hardy County, agrees that bureaucratic interference and cultural affronts have sapped the president's popularity.
The soaked wetsuit sapped her body's remaining warmth on this icy beach.
Any energy which had not yet been sapped by the dense humidity was spent on mocking Argentina's demise rather than cheering on the boys in red.
The volatility of equity markets in recent months has sapped the confidence of investors but it has been a boon for some exchanges.
The uncertainty over the outcome of talks in Washington over the fiscal cliff has sapped the natural inclination to buy declining shares.
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But confidence had been sapped by the dissembling, and along came East Asia's downturn to further weaken Japan's banks and to cut exporters' profits.
Afflicted trees produce fewer cherries, and harvested beans are sapped of flavors like "Meyer lemon" and "sugar sprinkle" that draw gourmet roasters like Ms. Anunu.
But, as electronic trading has sapped business from the trading floor, many desks are unmanned and traders have left to conduct business "upstairs"--on a computer.
Fiscally and militarily, not unlike Bush, Obama has sapped our vitality.
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