will-sapping

And it's a grueling campaign that can be will-sapping at times.

She had been resigned to a long, slow, will-sapping investigation, a slow progress through layers of administration.

But there was a will-sapping compulsion, a need to be with him, to belong to him, that stripped away her defences.

Proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning.

Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police, proposing debilitation and will-sapping techniques of conditioning.

After Nadal fought off three set points in the first set, he took command of the match and the angles with his will-sapping left-handed forehand.

It is the environmental impact assessments and the equalities impact assessments and the will-sapping tedium and cost of the consultations.

In fact the film represents his last best hope of making anything authentic from a life dominated by the all-pervasive, will-sapping effects of state control, particularly in television, the "factory of lies."

And the fact that lacing joyweed with sodium pentothal turns it into a powerful, will-sapping hypnotic that transforms innocent Terry children intoobedient zombies makes it all the more dangerous!

After a time that went unmeasured except by Eydryth's increasing thirst, pain from her wrenched ankles, and general misery from the will-sapping spell lying over the ensor- celled land, Alon halted.

In fact, it was only the coming of Alberico from the Empire of Barbadior, with his will-sapping sorcery and the brutal efficiency of his conquering mercenaries, that brought Tomasso and Sandre to a certain very late-night talk during the Duke's second year of exile.