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    1. Plants under the care of the ants are protected by them and are also used as a source of food either for them directly thru the sap or pollen of the plant or indirectly thru the use of aphids and other insects which attack the plant and which in turn are ‘milked’ by the ants (for their nectar)


    2. Ants and tree sap:


    3. If your tree is leaking sap, this is usually an indication that the tree is under some type of stress and is opened to attack


    4. with coffee as thick as the sap that runs from under


    5. But Deirdre had no answer for the boy, knowing in her sap that boys were made up of many things but rarely of a constant heart


    6. You're just the poor sap who believes him


    7. But Deirdre had no answer for the boy, knowing in her sap that


    8. He just crushed the plant to pulp, ytith and all, getting them stuck in the sap and snapping them at leisure


    9. draws the sap and concentrates it into the leaves


    10. sap his strength as they ascended hill after hill

    11. The flat plain was covered with mud, small puddles and an occasional sap nub


    12. Sap from the plantain’s leaves would ease the itch and redness of her gashes


    13. It was so large, a farmer could have harvested enough sap to fill ten amphorai, each a metrete in volume


    14. But she knew it was only a matter of time before the stress and despair would sap the last bit of his strength


    15. ” I listened again and his voice seemed to be coming from a sap that ran off the main trench I turned down it and there at the end propped up against the wall was old Dawson


    16. We usually used a old sap trench or the like and just threw them in piles of decomposed and decomposing bodies


    17. It’s down to those Essex lads in the next trench they have found a spare sap trench and are busy filling it with any of our of Turkish corpses


    18. The newly-cut tree was still green and heavy with sap


    19. Eventually we came to a small sap where a sniper plate had been erected this was a steel plate with eye holes cut into it and a rifle slot


    20. ” We set the gun up in its own little post in a small sap that led out the back of the trench facing the German trenches

    21. The next morning after parade and breakfast we were loaded into cattle trucks and taken to the SAP Quarter Master in Silverton, which is on the opposite side of Pretoria


    22. I can tell you, that story of a smoker sharing his last cigarette with his mate is nonsense! I noted a disturbing tendency to hide behind a tree and smoke alone during SAP COIN training after a cigarette shortage occurred


    23. Once I tried to dye one of them to decent SAP blue, but it turned out a horrible purple colour so I gave up and got used to the shivering


    24. "Sergeant, just sit back and relax and we’ll show you how we kick the (you know what) out of this criminal who obviously needs re-education in manners when dealing with female members of the SAP


    25. It became a game between us actually, and I am sure he would have been disappointed if we had stopped playing it! I really liked old Sergeant van der Merwe whose views were entirely SAP and nothing wrong with that either


    26. That was the obvious way, but the SAP liked non-obvious ways very much


    27. Or the other version, which goes that the Generals forgot to inform the Prisons Service that the SAP had switched from FN rifles to the R1 (SLR), which was longer because it used a better flash suppressor and now could not fit into the boxes


    28. Unlike the Army and SAP COIN, we did not need to carry the rifles with us all the time which was a blessing


    29. Accordingly the SAP issued us with slings to be used only on the border, and we duly slung the rifles over our shoulders while on patrol


    30. There are a couple of things in this world which astonish me, and this was one of them, because SAP COIN normally did not make such errors, being utterly professional when it came to counter-insurgency where the acknowledged kill ratio was beyond anything the West ever heard about

    31. And once SAP COIN tracked you down, you were dead


    32. In history we have seen that the Nationalists tried the same tactics by painting the SAP Casspirs yellow


    33. The changes were utterly ridiculous and the Nationalists made fools of themselves because it made no difference! People still died at the hands of the SAP! Only a politician who could be that short-sighted and keep his high paying job, for in the real world he would be fired on the spot


    34. Legally, according to the longhaired liberals in parliament, the SAP had to fire three warning shots before aiming only to wound


    35. In the first place, the SAP were issued with six-shot revolvers for many decades, and thus the poor policeman had to use 50% of his ammunition as warning shots? How silly is that? Practically speaking, what do you do when a man comes at you with a knife? Do you really have time to fire three warning shots? And the warning shots should be fired deliberately (read slowly), with much shouting to convince the criminal hell bent on murdering you to cease his attack


    36. A further point which is forgotten during the border war was that the SAP were not bound by the Geneva Convention, and thus could have used any ammunition they desired


    37. We studied different crimes and the Criminal Procedure Act as it related to the SAP


    38. The SAP for once agreed with me because they offered a small grant for white members who could speak a black language


    39. In this case the SAP were called to arrest the man, and the State prosecutors decided to charge him with Crimen Injuria


    40. It is important to remember that the SAP was neither judge nor prosecutor

    41. The court, rather sarcastically asked: “Why ten minutes?” Perhaps the Judge expected a better performance by the couple, and the SAP detectives expected less? I just don’t know the answer to that one


    42. The fact is that the SAP was for many decades an honourable organisation, but as with the defeated German Army in 1945, and the Confederacy of American South in 1865, nothing good is said about them today


    43. Understandably, the current and future historians were not members of the old SAP and they must be kind to their new masters if they want to be published


    44. Be that as it may, no one can deny that up until 1994, the SAP was considered (by its enemies and friends) to be one of the most feared Police Forces in the world


    45. It must be said that service to the public, both black and white, was provided by the SAP, and its Latin motto: Servamus et Servimus meant just that


    46. For decades the public relied on the SAP for this type of assistance, and there were few problems and much mutual respect


    47. In fact, the SAP was respected by citizens


    48. Legally the SAP had been created by parliament in 1913 with the sole purpose to enforce the laws of parliament


    49. In other words, to “maintain law and order,” for how chaotic would it be if the laws of a country are ignored by the citizens? The SAP had absolutely no other reason for its existence, and neither does any other police force in the world


    50. They had never been created because the political system of the Union of South Africa (founded in 1910 after the Boer War), which had created the SAP in 1913, is known as the Westminster System














































    1. Much was accomplished, but slowly the virus of Washington fever sapped the vigor of reform


    2. The tension of marching through the metropolis, running for my life in the Coptic city, and crawling through kilometres of caves has sapped me of all my energy


    3. A piece of it broke away, but the physical exertion sapped my strength


    4. You, however,will continue to give and give until you are sapped of your youth and beauty


    5. concerns, and they took root in her and sapped her spirit


    6. sapped my spirit was over, at least for now


    7. Once the marital thread that binds woman to her nuptial bed is sapped, won’t that tend her to turn loose? If it comes that, won’t that damn my character? Moreover, what’s the guarantee that my rendezvous with Vivek wouldn’t affect my future relationship with Gautam? After all, all men are possessive about their women


    8. The insidious combination of fever and dysentery had sapped their strength to the point where they could no longer keep pace with the rest of us


    9. At last, as her family bade her farewell when she boarded the Madras Mail at Waltair, she felt something vital had sapped within her


    10. But degeneracy had not yet sapped the kings and the people; though clad in silks and cloth-of-gold, they were still a vital, virile race

    11. The nostalgia sapped his strength


    12. The overwhelming loneliness of being a stricken child had sapped her feelings


    13. " Mitchell pulled back, feeling the pain when he looked into the eyes of a young man sapped of his confidence; likely due to his habitual dependence on chemicals


    14. The permanent greyness had sapped his wil to groom


    15. His injuries had sapped his strength, and he slid slowly out of sight


    16. As he lay there on the bank bordering the beach, guilt flowed through him and sapped his desire


    17. She had even stopped satisfying her own needs some time ago as her forced abstinence slowly, steadily sapped her libido away, but in the last hours it had returned with such incredible force that now she was seriously worried she might come all over this bed while Clayton Hargrave watched, teasing her with barely a fingertip to her skin


    18. The increased gravity sapped his strength, the


    19. It’s as though the last vein of his moral rein on my heart got sapped


    20. The wind sapped his strength

    21. feel sapped and exhausted without a deep sense of satisfaction, contentment and


    22. She was emotionally torn, her body felt sapped of any remaining strength


    23. She continued to push against his forearm, but a quiver from his touch sapped her strength, and with it her resolve


    24. Gradually sinking away more and more from energy as one child after the other sapped her up, she left off reading, dropping the more difficult things first


    25. She had been drained, sapped, all of it sucked out of her


    26. Candle making apparently was hard and extremely hot work in his day and therefore sapped a man of energy and fluids


    27. For day and night your hand (of judgment) was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer


    28. This turmoil has sapped my


    29. La grande illusion had sapped my libidinous energy and I gave up thoughts of conquests and sexual gratification


    30. In the evenings, the sound of the frothing, phosphorescent waves and the fresh sea breeze after a sweltering day in the sun restored the energy that was sapped in the daytime

    31. His momentum sapped, he stumbled to a halt with no more than twenty yards separating them


    32. Getting killed by an assailant he could barely see sapped Eric's confidence, but having Rose at his side and the prospect of joining Lucy reassured him


    33. His resistance is sapped, his urge to yield is fortified, until in the end he defeats himself


    34. The cold had already sapped most of Joey's strength


    35. At that, everyone became even more sapped of strength


    36. Lucifer had sapped her strength and upon losing the shield Holly had tried to resurrect it but it just wouldn’t comply


    37. His age may not have been more than three or four and thirty, but his haggard expression and unhealthy hue told of a life which has sapped his strength and robbed him of his youth


    38. He worked so hard and so long, his daily trips on unhealthy ferries and hot cars sapped his vitality to such an extent, that all his life had been spent and lived by the time he crossed at night the threshold of his home


    39. The constitution would be sapped


    1. The two cooks who arrived before us are both ill with something that is sapping their strength


    2. He told us that there was nothing worse for sapping a man’s strength and moral than thirst especially in conditions like this


    3. A depleted treasury must find creative ways of raising revenue however dry the well in order to pacify the demands of its citizens; engendering more spending promoting a vicious cycle of tax and spending policies sapping the energies and moral vitality of its productive citizens who grow increasingly cynical while the Rabble grows more demanding and the government more obliging


    4. for a long time that was sapping her energy


    5. Not only were we rather high in altitude, sapping our endurance, but also, the dry, rough terrain was hard on both men and horses


    6. He sounded like he was drunk and he found it hard to continue his speech, it was sapping his energy


    7. She had charged into battle against her father with a horrible cut already sapping her strength


    8. The furious sea was sapping his energy quickly


    9. He instantly felt the painful energy radiate, a child missing his original innocence, sapping the life from his soul


    10. The two men closed in from behind to grab her, believing that the knife was distracting or sapping her will to fight

    11. You are sapping their vitality


    12. Zygmunt finally admitted to himself that he felt awful and he sat down as he experienced his strength sapping away


    13. Maybe it was the confrontation with Landon, yep, that could be sapping her strength


    14. It was a very good word to describe the disease that was sapping the foundations of society and destroying the health and happiness and the very lives of so many of their fellow countrymen and women


    15. Something in the water was sapping my strength, so I couldn’t paddle or even turn my head


    1. multiple feelings of hatred, frustration and anger which saps


    2. “And he thinks these saps can lead him to his 'treasure'? What in the Spur could that be?!” Jista wasn't buying that explanation so easily


    3. “The place were most of our casualties occurred and where Snowy got his was underground in these galleries and saps the fighting was vicious down here hand to hand using bayonets and bombs and it was brutal in its intensity


    4. Somewhere along the line another fat politician will try to live up to his politically correct god and reduce the SAPS to a “civilian service”


    5. I ask you to please stop imitating the longhaired liberals by criticizing the police (SAPS) all the time


    6. We are not at that level yet, and no, I do not agree with what is going on right now in the SAPS


    7. It is horrifying situation when the majority of citizens in a civilised country cannot trust its own police force! And now we see with the SAPS (who replace the SAP), that history is repeating itself


    8. More people will die, and the SAPS will again be seen as a “tool of oppression” if they are not careful


    9. Whose fault is that I ask? What right does the SAPS have to turn away from rioters and ignore what is happening in right in front of them? None whatsoever, for they are the country's police


    10. The current SAPS High Way Patrol members tell me that it takes a lot of top speed away through drag but I believe that I could have lived with that

    11. Very bad decisions were made by guess who else but our elected politicians who see the SAPS as a political scoring exercise


    12. I see from newspaper reports that one third of the SAPS (tens of thousands of members) cannot hit a one foot square target eight feet away from them


    13. The SAPS is now despised for being incompetent and corrupt


    14. No doubt there are bad apples but how incompetent is the SAPS if the jails are 400% full? And the criminal courts have two years in backlog cases? With such figures why change the formula with foreign “advisers”


    15. The SAPS lost no less than two commissioners (political appointees) to corruption in the last ten years


    16. How will you feel when the current Minister of Law and Order says: "I don't mind if my black policemen kick whites to death whilst in SAPS custody


    17. * Many readers asked me about the SAPS storming a house in Johannesburg a few years ago


    18. The above is another reason why I find the training of the new SAPS by outsiders so absurd


    19. That Rooinek was so upset that he changed his plans to rather go to the Kruger National Park (just in case the SAPS also had such tendencies)


    20. With the Second Iraq invasion the SAPS lost most of his dogs handlers

    21. Is quite ironic, and caused a lot of headache to the SAPS to replace them


    22. Most of those who stayed on in the SAPS were worked out and almost all hit concrete ceilings


    23. Probably only the Crime Combating and Investigation Division (old CID) is of interest to us and regardless of your opinion of the effectiveness of the SAPS they are needed by forensic law practitioners


    24. Many of our cases are registered at the SAPS and the docket handed over for arrest when the client wants to go that route


    25. The SCCU's mandate is to prosecute complex commercial crime cases emanating from the commercial branches of the SAPS


    26. conflict saps our physical, mental, and spiritual energy


    27. There are several types of hangers-on—the poor saps who think a plea for help will be enough to gain them largess from your limitless store of wealth, the demanding types who resent the fact you won't shower them with gold simply because you have it and they don't, the flatterers who kiss up to you in the hopes of being offered a reward, and the plain thieves and con artists, of course


    28. Corrupted by a Western culture that saps a man – tells him,


    29. labelled an habitual criminal at which point SAPS would bundle all of the remaining


    30. They still feared the return of the Khmer rouge, so with the rifles and ammunitions that had been washed up years before and kept in good condition, with oils from tree saps, remained on constant vigil

    31. We just find some poor saps in their sleep and they wake up with a headache from the blood loss


    32. Then you will not carry any destructive grudges… destructive negative energy that saps and destroys all of your positive energy


    33. “Did you know that Scott’s brother is one of those saps?” Jeff snapped


    34. Whoa! It saps everything


    35. We tend to laugh at the poor saps nowadays, but don’t: If you’d gone through the Depression years, you wouldn’t have found the idea that your whole world was going to end in a cataclysmic disaster all that far-fetched


    36. Christianity, faithfully interpreted, saps the foundations of the civil law, and this was always understood from the very outset


    37. It affects the essential principles of civil liberty, and saps its hopes at its very foundation


    38. this question affects the essential principles of civil liberty, and saps its hopes at the very foundation, 469;


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    Synonyms for "sap"

    blackjack cosh sap fool muggins saphead tomfool exhaust play out run down tire deplete reduce subvert debilitate undermine enervate milk juice tree sap pitch

    "sap" definitions

    a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant


    a person who lacks good judgment


    a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people


    deplete


    excavate the earth beneath