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The all-pervasive micro-regulatory state "enervates," but nicely, gradually, so after a while you don't even notice.

The State Despotic By Mark Steyn 2009

Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

Broke Glenn Beck 2010

Vampires represent the fear of a shadowy cabal which parasitises and enervates the common man.

Zombies versus vampires in popular culture: an economic approach amuchmoreexotic 2008

In the pages of Water the Moon, I would come to discover with much relief the freshness that enervates even the most explored theme.

WATER THE MOON by FIONA SZE-LORRAIN EILEEN 2009

Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

Tocqueville’s vision and even the language anticipate Orwell’s 1984, or Huxley’s Brave New World Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

DIAMOND: Well, it's sort of interesting, because the same nerve that enervates our sinuses and our nose is the nerves that carry the information for migraine.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2009 2009

Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity.

Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point 2009

In short, anything that enervates, or saps energy, can exacerbate any tendencies we may have toward disease.

Influenza shots? No thank you! 2008

There is also my sense of writing against the wave of what enervates and murders writing; that is, stasis and consensus.

Lynn Crosbie reads Sid Vicious and Entertains A Few Questions Lemon Hound 2008