crippling

How To Use crippling In A Sentence

• And some soil-based diseases not only cause physical symptoms, but create cognitive impairment too, crippling a child's long-term potential. Blake Mycoskie: Today, TOMS Asks You to Go 'One Day Without Shoes'
• It's like paying off the mortgage on your house or choosing to lease a new car over three years instead of keeping your old banger with its crippling repair bills.
• John has attached old pram wheels to a wooden box so he can move easily among the raspberry canes without crippling his knees.
• Progressive symptoms, crippling claudication and limb ischemia warrant more aggressive interventions.
• He was apparently the only reporter in the city when U.S. forces were enforcing a crippling siege.
• Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.
• Lumbered with crippling debt, many farmers left the land, paving the way for the corporatization of agriculture.
• If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources. Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
• The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms.
• But the Wistow pitman says no amount of money can compensate for a crippling hand condition that could leave him on the unemployment scrap heap.