SAPS

abbreviation for

1. South African Police Service

Example Sentences

But the South African Human Rights Commission said on Friday that it had begun an investigation into the SAPS's handling of the Stilfontein mine incident, following complaints that the blockade may have infringed the miners' right to life.

From BBC

The strategy saps the migrants of the funds and energy they need to keep going.

From BBC

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling stronger than any third-party candidate has in decades, pulling in roughly 10 percent of registered voters across the battleground states as he saps support from both President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, a new series of polls has found.

From New York Times

Advertising dollars depend on eyeballs fixed to the game, so this sort of engagement is a win-win — for the leagues and their advertisers at least, if not always for the saps placing the bets.

From Los Angeles Times

"When oxygen reacts with tantalum, it forms an amorphous insulating layer that saps tiny bits of energy from the current moving through the tantalum lattice. That energy loss disrupts quantum coherence -- the material's ability to hold onto quantum information in a coherent state," explained CFN scientist Mingzhao Liu, a lead author on the earlier studies and the new work.

From Science Daily

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