1.   His astronomical travelling expenses all but bankrupted the club, and his non-appearance at over half the games sapped team morale.

2.   Knowing it was all pointless sapped my morale.

3.   And regulators seldom visit hospitals, but when something goes wrong they pile on in a way that can sap staff morale and scare away patients.

4.   Beat cops say the overtime work -- combined with a dwindling number of officers on the street -- is increasing fatigue and frustration and sapping morale.

5.   It saps your morale.

6.   To encourage enterprise, he seeks to change the pessimism that saps newsroom morale.

7.   While there is no concrete evidence of this, the investigations are indeed sapping morale in this country, particularly the morale of corporate leaders.

8.   Rebel ambushes and checkpoint attacks have sapped the morale of Russian troops, though both sides have refrained from major offensives in recent weeks.

9.   Large-scale fighting has mostly ended in the small separatist republic, but rebel attacks continue to bleed Russian troops daily and sap military morale.

10.   The army angrily denounced the investigations, saying they were sapping military morale.