1. He was burdened with crippling debts.

2. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.

3. He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.

4. A crippling attack of malaria kept him in bed for months.

5. The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small American high-tech firms.

6. The new cuts will be seen as a crippling blow for people on low incomes.

7. Arthritis is a crippling disease which affects people all over the world.

8. Fines were also imposed and crippling fines were threatened.

9. But what causes this crippling complaint?

10. No crippling Whitewater developments or unpleasant October surprises appeared.

11. He has ordered a crippling interest rate rise this week if the Pound comes under renewed pressure.

12. Furthermore, expanding prison populations have crippling consequences for prison regimes.

13. These protests were added to a series of crippling miners' strikes which had begun in early March.

14. Every soldier in the field saw crippling and horrid injuries, and one can imagine the impact that had.

15. Alzheimer's disease is one of the most crippling and distressing diseases of the elderly.

16. The blow was so crippling because confidence had already taken quite a few knocks.

17. Wheelchair-bound since childhood because of a crippling bout with polio,(http://) Pomus died in 1991.

18. Both democracy and the modern corporation had dealt crippling blows.

19. High interest rates are crippling and an unstable economy can produce them at any time.

20. It was a mammoth and indeed crippling undertaking and by the end of the Darius reign the vast empire was in decline.

21. May 1983 Mental Health Many women refugees suffer from acute mental health problems, most particularly crippling depressions and anxieties.

22. Brave Gail Devers was suffering from Graves Disease but it took doctors two years to diagnose the crippling thyroid illness.

23. Where we followed his lead-particularly in low-income housing-we often had the opposite effect, crippling community-based organizations.

24. A leadership style that has made her a remarkably effective prime minister would be a crippling liability in the White House.

25. The sharply increased volume of traffic increased the opportunities for profits, but also for crippling losses.

26. Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection.

27. Most notably, it bans firms from frustrating a bidder by crippling themselves with debt or swallowing poison pills.

28. In some areas of the Black Triangle, ten per-cent of all live births resulted in infants with crippling birth defects.

29. The concentrated pathos of her narration, and the clarity with which she conveys its crippling effects on Blanche, is breathtaking.

30. Now those landowners have become greedy and demand high rents - and we help to exploit the peasants by levying crippling taxes.

1. He was burdened with crippling debts.

2. Arthritis and rheumatism are prominent crippling diseases.

3. He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.

31. The result is a crippling and ever-growing burden of fruitless debt.

32. Taken to extremes, what begins as an anxiety may develop into a full-blown phobia, crippling the life of the sufferer.

33. Where those crippling deformities came from mystified generation after generation of parents and doctors.

34. He is reported to be suffering from a crippling kidney disease.

35. A VILLAGE pub landlord looks set to leave his business because of crippling rent rises.

36. This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine.

37. Within large-scale industry, the crippling specialisation of the individual machine-minders is one aspect of the division of labour.

38. What is temporary paralysis in half the face next to the crippling paralysis of a stroke?

39. And most ominously, it often has the effect of crippling the performance of formerly productive work groups.

40. Many of the people we care for suffer from other crippling disabilities as well as their blindness.

41. In one year under Labour, borrowing reached a crippling 9 percent. - the equivalent of ￡55 billion today.

42. Skilful horsemanship overcame those problems, but then just 24 hours before the Derby, Nijinsky suffered a crippling attack of colic.

43. Already the young farmer has lost more than half his winter wheat crop to a crippling drought.

44. Some might say that typical annual percentage rates of around 24 percent are crippling.

45. And the heat inside the mill would not be so unpleasant as the crippling cold endured by field-workers in winter.

46. Strikes were as crippling as taxes.

47. They both suffered from crippling pains in their hips.

48. But most crippling were the communication failures.

49. The strong yen is crippling exports.

50. As a result Heath rarely exhibited Nixon's crippling diffidence.

51. It's certainly a crippling handicap taken on too early.

52. By the end of April(http://), new loans stood close to six trillian yuan and economists have begun to warn that the explosive supply of capital may create a crippling bad loan problem in the future.

53. Armenia is occupying a region of Azerbaijani territory, which has resulted in Turkey enforcing a trade embargo against Armenia since 1993, crippling the Armenian economy.

54. Without reform , however, those apathetic young voters face a crippling tax burden.

55. The American military presence on the islands had suffered a crippling blow.

56. Violence spreads inexorably across the nation, filling our streets and crippling our lives.

57. Nightstalker's Crippling Fear now has a minor effect during the day.

58. Zimbabwe is a more recent example of this crippling medical emigration.

59. Some adults experience a webbing between fingers or toes, or a crippling form of arthritis in which fingers and toes twist around one another.

60. The conflation of money and capital is one of the crippling weaknesses of mainstream economic thought.

61. Beyond the human cost, the crime rate is crippling black enterprise.

62. For many, that crippling menage a trios – guilt, inhibition and shame, still lingered in the bedroom.

63. Objective To study the methods of treatment and management for increasing the living rate or decreasing the crippling rate in extremely low-birth-weight infant(ELBWI).

64. This "report of 1944 was a crippling blow to any future that dispensational premillennialism might have within Southern Presbyterianism."

65. The 14 - inch torpedo has no hope of crippling a modern dreadnought.

66. Remarkably, the child recovered from a disease which had swept the world, killing and crippling millions.

67. Dracunculiasis is a crippling parasitic disease on verge of eradication, with fewer than 1 800 cases reported in 2010.

68. What started a simple discussion about pay has degenerated a crippling strike.

69. Krait and cobra venoms, including that of the king cobra, act very quickly by crippling the nervous system.

70. This means not moderate sanctions or watered-down sanctions. This means crippling sanctions, and these sanctions must be applied right now.

71. Dracunculiasis (more commonly known as guinea-worm disease) is a crippling parasitic disease caused by Dracunculus medinensis, a long thread-like worm.

72. Criminal charges against a firm are potentially crippling and are extremely rare.

73. Avascular ofhead of femur is a potentially crippling disease which mainly affects young adults.

74. Jonas Salk, who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, dies in La Jolla, California.

75. This week brought the 115th confirmed case of polio, a crippling and at times fatal disease passed on virally, mainly through bad hygiene.

76. And for all the bubbliness of China's property market and the reckless spending of local governments, the country will probably avoid a crippling debt crisis.

77. It has sky-high unemployment yet at the same time suffers from crippling skills shortages.

78. Both are rebels from Korea's crippling and prohibitively expensive treadmill of education, marriage and family, hailed as the be-all and end-all by the taciturn older generation.

79. Sadly, their hearts either haven't developed or have been shut down due to early psychic trauma, such as being raised by narcissistic parents,(Sentence dictionary) a crippling handicap both emotionally and spiritually.

80. A crippling weapon is infused with binding power so that when a target is critically hit their movement is slowed by half.

81. The threat of post-publication sanctions, such as criminal fines or incarceration, can be as intimidating and crippling to the ability of a news organization to operate as any prior restraint.