1.   Apple marketing chief Guerrino DeLuca said last week that Apple had gotten into too many side businesses that sapped resources without advancing sales.

2.   But just as gambling may boost the fortunes of some, it can sap the resources of people it lures, the study said.

3.   His father, in particular, seems to sit inside him like a bitter seed, greedily sapping resources and sprouting at the most inopportune times.

4.   New drugs like Viagra sap the resources of a health care system that is straining to provide basic care.

5.   Not by taking control of the nuclear arsenals or enslaving humanity, but by sapping our resources and literally polluting us to death.

6.   Some of these aides have grown openly weary of an investigation that has sapped enormous resources from the administration and taken the focus away from an ambitious policy agenda.

7.   The Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia and a border war against our former Chinese allies in the north sapped resources.

8.   Debt is sapping the resources of economically powerful countries, which must prop up poorer nations.

9.   If the edict is ignored, enforcing the fine could sap valuable resources and time officers would otherwise devote to fighting crime, he said.