How To Use Disabled In A Sentence

Even more unsurprising is the fact that this neo-nazi moron was parked in a disabled parking spot. Think Progress » Virginia DMV Pulls License Plate Coded With Neo-Nazi Message From Truck With Anti-Islam Imagery
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.
Five soldiers were each fined ￡140 for swiping a wheelchair from a disabled tourist.
The new policies fail to accommodate the disabled.
Judith C had been disabled since birth, getting about with sticks and, for much of her life, leg calipers.

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The phones can also be used with appliances such as washing machines to aid the disabled. The Sun
Disabled and able-bodied pupils got together for a dance and drama day.
I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
It is hard for the able-bodied to understand the difficulties that disabled people encounter in their daily lives.
Please give your seat to an elderly or disabled person if they require it.
Also patron of beggars, hermits, horses, the physically disabled, and the woods.
A wing was converted in keeping with the existing architecture of the hall to provide accommodation for families and disabled guests.
But Stevie is by no means the only disabled performer strutting his stuff at the festival this year.
Several key buildings in Waterford, including churches, are still not recognising the needs of disabled people because they're not wheelchair accessible.
There was an item on Dustbury last week about refineries post-Katrina, linking to Hatless in Hattiesburg's suggestion to replace refineries which were destroyed or disabled by Katrina with new refineries on military bases slated for being "realigned," and to Engine of the Future's suggestion to lift for three years the EPA regulations requiring different fuel blends for different regions, so that gasoline can be shipped wherever it's needed, avoiding artificial shortages. Oily residue - BatesLine
The idea of consultation with disabled people is hardly a new one. Times, Sunday Times
Next to the Delousing Hut was a small hut known as the 'LZ' that housed ill and disabled POWs. Stalag 18A
I had one girl who was gifted, another couple who are learning disabled and another who is a second-language learner.
Use the term advisedly, as some find it an offensive allusion to the disabled. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
Struggling to support his wife and disabled teenage son, he has taken a second job at a car wash. Times, Sunday Times
Since he published a paper on fluoroquinolone side effects in 2001, says Dr. Jay Cohen, a medical researcher and associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, "I have received several hundred emails, most of which relate terrible, often catastrophic reactions that are slow to pass, leaving some people disabled for months or years. The ignored risks of America's most popular antibiotics
They are often minorities, almost always impoverished and disabled by their illness.
I am disabled with RA and nerve issues so unfortunately I become bedbound quite often. The Winner of the SlouchBack Giveaway
She risked her own life to help a disabled woman.
Dr. Annalu Waller, a computer scientist and expert in augmentative and alternative communication, is also Scotland's first disabled woman Episcopalian priest. Archive 2007-05-01
The grant is towards the cost of computer training courses for lone parents and disabled people.
Students debate whether the PGA was wrong in not allowing a disabled golfer, Casey Martin, to use a golf cart during professional tournaments.
Each centre will be designed to help even the most physically disabled or confused people move around and orient themselves easily.
Contact with other disabled yachtsmen of like mind would be helpful.
A number of the disabled professionals were actively involved in disability issues.
He accused the government of ratting on its promises to the disabled.
It's made me much more sensitive to the needs of the disabled.
A disabled man has lost his claim for unfair dismissal.
She is officially registered disabled.
Old age disabled him for hard work.
They spoke of incidents of violence, which included a disabled woman twice narrowly escaping injury from a youth firing an air rifle and a pensioner's pet dog being shot dead.
Suspecting the electronic ignition, the team disabled the electronics and started the engine ‘the old way,’ using just the magnetos.
The new law should allow more disabled people to enter the mainstream of American life.
To say that evangelical Christians believe that non-evangelicals deserve to suffer and die is like saying that people who sell life and disability insurance believe that those who don’t follow their advice to buy insurance *deserve* to suffer and live in penury and/or have their families suffer and live in penury if they die or become disabled. The Volokh Conspiracy » HRW’s Whitson Defends Fundraising in Totalitarian Countries:
What would you say to a parent that's contemplating having their intellectually disabled child sterilised?
Less known was his tireless work to support disabled people. Times, Sunday Times
The club has vigorously defended the mayor against attacks by other disabled advocates who say Brown has done little for them.
Tulowitzki was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday afternoon and the Rockies recalled infielder Chris Nelson from Triple-A Colorado Springs to fill his roster spot. Troy Tulowitzki Injury: Shortstop Out Six Weeks With Broken Wrist
Accessibility for disabled users and accessibility for diverse methods of browsing the web are connected issues.
There is no disabled access and space does not permit one to be provided.
The word "crip" is part of disability culture, disabled artists, activists, and writers are turning it inside out and putting "crip" back out there as an empowering word. Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid?
All of us are disabled in some way. Christianity Today
Most of these tools have been specially adapted for use by disabled people.
It saved his life but left him severely disabled: unable to speak, bedridden, and paralysed for eight months before he died.
Science can be one area of schoolwork that gives disabled students a sense of achievement and self-esteem.
Additionally, a select number of staterooms on all ships are carefully designed to provide comfort and security, ensuring a safe onboard environment for disabled guests.
Should the disabled parking bay have been used for the mayor's limousine?
In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
Pity welled up in her heart as she watched the disabled child.
Diseases like multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy or polio can leave people disabled.
We all need to reflect on the huge amount of wasted potential as disabled people struggle against continual discrimination and barriers. Times, Sunday Times
Asking Disabled people produces a quite different approach.
They feel that working alongside disabled students gives a particular significance to their teaching and learning.
However, when Twitter geolocation is launched, the feature will be disabled by default.
Complaints from the disabled community in New Jersey led to four theater chains there to add special device for the hearing impaired.
Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled.
The new policies fail to accommodate the disabled.
There is a lack of adequate provision for disabled students.
The candle now fell from his hand, and he attempted to pull off his wig; but it had been tied close on, to appear more natural, and his fright disabled him; he therefore flung himself upon the bed, and rolled the coverlid over his head. Camilla
Disabled and able-bodied children will now be able to enjoy the playground together because of its specially designed equipment.
The work failed, marriage prospects paled, her friend deserted her and she found herself faced with the prospect which she now understood only too well, of disabled health, unemployment, disgrace, and a second child to maintain unaided. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
The vessel is designed to enable able-bodied and physically disabled people to experience the adventure of off-shore sailing.
The compensation has provoked claims of misusing public funds and demeaning the value of a disabled person's life. Times, Sunday Times
She did all this tendon damage and it really disabled her.
If an officer of the Reserve Corps who has been retired pursuant to these regulations and whose retired pay has been terminated on account of his recovery shall again become totally disabled and if his relapse is not due to any new intervening cause, he shall again become entitled to retired pay. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9897
I feel so care free that I could go down on a disabled child and call them a nymphomaniac, just like him. Cheeseburger Gothic » There will be a short break in transmission while I get back under this bus.
It took the disabled shoppers two hours longer than their able-bodied counterparts to complete the same activities.
Motorists who park their vehicles at bus stops are making it impossible for disabled passengers to climb aboard, a disability organisation claimed today.
He was alone in an airless, partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off.
Tom Hawthorne was at the Social Security office picking up paperwork for a disabled associate when the bomb exploded.
It would seem logical that reassignment need only be considered in respect of positions for which the disabled employee is qualified.
They said their set-up could someday be adapted to help disabled people operate a motorized wheelchair or artificial limb.
After making sure the building's alarm system was disabled, they climbed through the hole and then into the space above the ceiling.
He said 75 disabled bays in the city are now compliant with the technical rules.
She has disabled herself from walking by a fall.
She did not perceive herself as disabled.
A 740-foot cargo ship was disabled and floating adrift in high winds about 540 miles southwest of Adak on Sunday. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 21, 2009
On May 2, things got worse for the native of Los Angeles, as he tore his right quadriceps muscle and was placed on the disabled list.
ONE SHOULD never call a person disabled, they are differently and distinctly abled in all respects.
Disabled drivers are an ever-growing minority group.
Our vision of life surely should encompass the abled and disabled alike.
They should also allow lump sum payments for adapting homes if owners become disabled. The Sun
The disabled and seriously ill are denied access to the extra care these benefits allow. The Sun
Vodianova also shared some stories from her childhood -- she grew up in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia and started working in a market at age 11: "I come from a very poor background, bought up by a single mum, with a little sister who is mentally disabled. Natalia Vodianova Poses With Adorable Babies For (BUGABOO) RED (PHOTO)
However, down the street a further two if not three disabled parkers had also got fixed penalty tickets.
The Government agreed before Christmas to remove the unjust anomaly which excluded parents of severely disabled children, under the age of two years, from getting the domiciliary care allowance.
Some one wrote in all capital letters that unqualified disabled workers were slacking off and getting special privileges.
The decision not to allow disabled athletes to take part was seen as petty and bigoted.
I will certainly be contacting them and I hope to enlist the help of other disabled groups and organisations to protest against the ban.
Relatives of elderly and disabled people are defrauding councils of millions of pounds by pocketing money meant for carers, the spending watchdog claims. Times, Sunday Times
Most confirmed abuses have been committed by workers rather than other disabled people.
He had suffered casualties - one man missing, presumed dead, another partially disabled.
So what needs to be done to improve the employment prospects of disabled people? Times, Sunday Times
Home alarm devices can be disabled by a crafty intruder.
Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died.
The council says the scheme will give pedestrians greater comfort and safety as well catering for the needs of the disabled.
The Princess Royal told the couple to ‘carry on building their lovely safe boats’ and officially named one of the couple's Devon luggers, which will be used by disabled sailing group, Queen Mary Sailability.
I need to have the front passenger airbag disabled? Times, Sunday Times
And while the MagicMouse can be picked up and grokked nearly instantaneously (though it sucks that right-click is disabled by default), the OpenOfficeMouse requires about two days of acclimation according to the FAQ. Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse | FactoryCity
But it must not be allowed to succeed, because it produces manifest injustice. The supervening event has not made the plaintiff less lame nor less disabled nor less deprived of amenities.
After the war he founded the Disabled Society, lobbying the government to improve the quality of artificial limbs.
Robin stars as a disabled janitor who befriends a young boy.
Congress amended the Social Security Act in 1967 to help the disabled.
Even with a much smaller capacity than Wembley, Swindon's County Ground accommodates the same number of disabled fans.
Eight short steps for a woman, one giant leap for the soul of the disabled. Times, Sunday Times
The law on assisted suicide acts as a safeguard for disabled people. Times, Sunday Times
Five soldiers were each fined ￡140 for swiping a wheelchair from a disabled tourist.
I order my library nooks online andmy husband picks them up for me as I am disabled and have a hard time getting around. Color me Badd « Awful Library Books
Of the rest, about half were clearly recognizable as developmentally disabled adults.
He was born disabled.
Police cars, buses and disabled drivers have all been victims of overzealous parking wardens since the Parkwise scheme was introduced.
They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice.
One of the main priorities therefore was to make the whole building accessible to disabled people.
Reliever Joba Chamberlain is headed to the disabled list with a strained flexor tendon in his arm. Arm Injury May Cost Chamberlain a Month
Early in March a great transport sailed from Manila Bay, laden with sick and disabled soldiers -- the lame, the healthless and the mad. Jane Cable
Although there are some neutral descriptive adjectives used with the word, such as 66 year old, disabled, or American, the majority of words collocating with spinster are negative.
A landlord cannot refuse demands from disabled tenants to adapt rented accommodation.
It is thought only half a million are seriously disabled and unfit to work. The Sun
He was born disabled and voiceless with a gaze permanently haunted by a look of terror.
The ruling, primarily intended as a safety measure, could lead to a widespread boycott by disabled entrants.
Once the Denivanian defenses were disabled, the slow, bulky troop transports would take their capitol, with escorts to defend from the remnants of the defense fleet.
These policies resulted in many elderly and disabled people suffering hardship.
If you are elderly or physically disabled, massage can be beneficial.
With the footboard just 40 cm high compared to one foot for ordinary buses, senior citizens and disabled passengers can board and alight easily.
He maintained this gift even after he had been disabled by the recurrence of teenage polio.
Self esteem for esteeming the child as a disabled child. Checkers
She has long been a champion of prisoners' rights/the disabled/free speech.
he is permanently disabled
Pilkington suffered from angina, his wife was also not well and he was the main carer for their disabled son.
Armed officers, who were lying in wait for the would-be raiders, disabled their van using Hatton rounds - bullets designed to deflate tyres with minimum damage.
Few people have daily contact with mentally disabled people.
New ramps will help the disabled gain better access.
A disabled caravanner who kept a penknife in his glove compartment to use on picnics has blasted the authorities after being dragged through court for possessing an offensive weapon. Latest Articles
Several people feared putting special schools and mainstream schools on one site would lead to bullying of disabled children.
We're trying to improve access for disabled visitors.
The ruling, primarily intended as a safety measure, could lead to a widespread boycott by disabled entrants.
Partially disabled, his craft is captured by a huge, whale-like space vessel crewed by a handful of rather unfriendly aliens.
In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.
These students were labelled `learning disabled'
Disabled students face different problems from their able-bodied friends.
With the sprinkler systems disabled, the fires raged uncontrollably, weakening the steel and leading to the collapse of the buildings.
If your firewall has been disabled, or your antivirus is out of date, that news will display here. SP2 security ‘crater’
When a disabled child dies some people think it is a merciful release but it was the beginning of a nightmare for us.
The law on assisted suicide acts as a safeguard for disabled people. Times, Sunday Times
He introduces a song of heart-warming beauty ‘Scorn Not His Simplicity’ and dedicates it to every proud parent of a disabled child.
The removal van will cost £23,000 and the disabled toilets about £4,000.
It's made me much more sensitive to the needs of the disabled.
A trip to the Ladies and the Gents also involves a walk up steps - which, as well as making the toilets difficult to service, also means there is no disabled access.
Discounting 2007, when Kennedy missed more than a month on the disabled list, Kennedy set career-lows in batting average (.250), on-base percentage (.322) and slugging percentage (.329). Adam Kennedy's rough season and Jim Riggleman's regret
There would be chairlift access for disabled people to all floors.
For example, it enables the more severely disabled to adapt equipment, such as computers, to meet their needs.
“Disabled” is currently a neutral term, but it might have once had a euphemistic ring to it, and may one day become a dysphemism. Waldo Jaquith - The euphemism treadmill.
Barbara said residents suffered draughty and leaking windows which were difficult for elderly and disabled people to open and close.
He says, we have lifts, automatic doors, disabled fitting rooms and shopping trolleys.
Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
Carter was permanently disabled in the war.
Contact with other disabled yachtsmen of like mind would be helpful.
INFRA-RED remote control receivers are to be installed at some of Darlington's top attractions in a bid to encourage disabled users.
It made me sad reading about that woman, to be driven to such a measure is indicative of how bad it actually is in some areas, but you have to admit, co-ercing a spacker to 'lift her nightie up' is up there with knock a door run and theiving bottles of milk off doorsteps .. not everyday for months/years on end. if it was your daughter? or is it ok because she was disabled? doesn't matter now though does it? they are both dead. only a harmless bit of fun. discuss? was gonna suggest your user name should be 'benni' 77, but i'd lose the moral high ground Army Rumour Service
It's one of those sexual tease jobs that involve a cornered woman in a night dress and a Peeping Tom psychopath; she's a psychiatrist, he's a garage mechanic and quite possibly a gay fruitcake who's killed (or "disabled" in the play's horrid vocabulary) a whole bunch of women before, and an Alfred Hitchcock-style "scopophiliac" to boot who likes watching women from a distance in various stages of undress. Undefined
Few challenge as many preconceptions of disabled athletes. Times, Sunday Times
Evidently, it's only frivolous if somebody has been disabled for life.
Gradually they have been manumitted; the slaves are free, women vote, young people have a childhood and a charter, the mentally unstable given a place, the disabled access.
Disabled people are widely discriminated against in most types of employment including the health and caring professions.
The crosspatch is therefore disabled physically, socially and psychologically.
There's the airshow scholarships helping disabled people like Brian Hucker learn how to fly.
He said the car was a lifeline because he was disabled and his wife was the main driver.
The statutory half-fare bus pass has not been welcomed by many people in South Lakeland due to the infrequency of buses in the county and the problems of access for many disabled people.
Apart from looking rather untidy such displays can cause major difficulties for people in wheelchairs or the visually disabled.
This is the sort of lack of joined-up thinking that's getting in the way of what disabled people need.
All 4 groups of severely disabled children need-and deserve to have-proper care and support.
She wasn't emotionally disabled or hysterical but in these day she used to cry almost all the time.
It was also heard she needed to care for her ten-year-old disabled son. The Sun
Some electricity companies do free visual wiring checks for elderly or disabled people.
A wing was converted in keeping with the existing architecture of the hall to provide accommodation for families and disabled guests.
The nearest public conveniences in Chantry Lane do not have any disabled facilities.
We will fund a scheme to provide free bus transport for the elderly and disabled. Times, Sunday Times
Treating disabled people like children only reinforces negative images of disability.
It also gives the medical profession a privileged position in determining who is disabled, as the study and treatment of normal and subnormal human functioning is the specialty of that profession.
A disabled car owner has been left with no transport and a hefty bill after vandals sprayed his car with a corrosive substance.
These machines have proved a real boon to disabled people.
Hours are very flexible Caring for older or disabled people can be both physically and mentally demanding but it also presents opportunities for career advancement. The Sun
Rebuilding Together is a national non-profit organization dedicated to repairing homes for low income, elderly and disabled homeowners.
Because she is disabled and uses a wheelchair, many people found it difficult to talk to her. Times, Sunday Times
It tells disabled job applicants that they will be given fair consideration based on their ability.
The bays should ensure other motorists visiting the street will avoid the most convenient parking space for a disabled resident.
Disabled visitors are welcome; there is good wheelchair access to most facilities.
You have a child who is disabled and for whom you receive the disabled child premium.
The accident left him severely disabled.
The elderly or disabled are particularly vulnerable, although some younger people with poor circulation can also suffer from the condition.
Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kudos to federal workers helping a deaf colleague
His family knew hardship after his father was disabled in an accident.
Feliciano is on the disabled list with a strained rotator cuff, which is often synonymous with an injury to the teres minor muscle on the back of the pitching shoulder. The Pedro Feliciano Controversy
This is asked as an avid fan of Landies and being a disabled driver.
The beep can be disabled with a simple click on the audio icon on the taskbar, which brings up the Audio Setting menu.

How To Use Disabled In A Sentence

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