It blurred the proper boundaries between emotions and generated forms of desire and pleasure which sapped male moral strength at its most sensitive point.
This process has finally sapped the foundations of the culturalhistorical tradition.
It sapped the productivity of workers and thus acted as a brake on economic development.
While popular discontent eroded the social base of the regime and sapped the morale of its troops, it nurtured the rebels.
Once again, as in 1913-15, the quality of the reportage declined as deepening financial problems and falling circulation sapped the morale of its staff.
His strength is slowly sapped and his will crushed by the weight of the burden he voluntarily carries.
Their desires did not outstrip the means of satisfaction, and self-sufficiency prevailed, whereas the present was a time when desires for luxuries drained money, sapped discipline, and weakened health.
Yet the fluctuations in the domestic economy and political unrest still sapped deter mination and diverted the attention of the political leadership from many facets of the foreign assistance policy.
