1.   A brief electrical outage had sapped its power.

2.   The lack of oxygen at this height saps power.

3.   And issues such as the ordination of women are threatening to sap the power of the Vatican still further.

4.   Fourteen years later, he desperately wants to return one last time, even though a bulging disk and cervical bone spur have sapped the power from his arm.

5.   Institutionally managed savings now slip across national frontiers like quicksilver, sapping the power of governments to finance themselves through inflation.

6.   Phoenix, impressed with an anti-gang approach used in California, wants to sap that power by using the courts to keep problem gang members from gathering in public.

7.   Phoenix, impressed with an anti-gang approach used in California, wants to sap that power by using the courts to keeping gang members from gathering in public.

8.   That is no problem overseas, where small-car drivers disdain automatics for sapping the power and reducing the economy of tiny engines.

9.   The high altitude sapped enough power to leave the engine totally maxed out just keeping up with traffic.

10.   The fact is that cable television for sometime has been systematically sapping the power of the networks to formulate a national audience for any but the biggest events.