"war" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The war had sapped him, nerve and brain and soul.
- How the war on terror has sapped the power of U.S. courts to protect citizens' constitutional liberties.
- Democrats say the war has sapped resources from tracking terrorists and bolstering domestic security.
- But civil war and the demands of defending the sultanate had overextended the warrior society's resources and sapped its strength.
- After that, the struggle against apartheid led to capital flight, sanctions cut off foreign investment, and the wars against guerrillas sapped the state's resources.
- The long civil war over investiture sapped the energy of both German churchmen and intellectuals.
- The endless war has sapped the enthusiasm from my men, and with each month that passes we lose more than we are able to recruit, as well you must see.
- However, the war sapped away the strength of the Russian government more rapidly than it weakened those of the other belligerents and thus encouraged rebellion.
- By 1969 the war in Vietnam had sapped the federal budget, and the moon landing had temporarily satiated Americans' appetite for space exploration.
- Continual wars sapped Iraq's wealth and decimated its people.
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