crippling

It was her own immune system, attacking the joint in her body and crippling her so badly that she often had to use a wheelchair.

She said a crippling asthma attack forced her to retreat.

The former Old Trafford and England star lifted the lid on three years of pain as he struggled to overcome crippling knee tendon problems.

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

And then the embarrassment is going to be crippling, to me, to the luckless company and to the Financial Times.

In the areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, a crippling sense of hopelessness set in and was passed down through generations.

After two years of crippling drought, things were starting to look up in the Middle East.

This aspect of Google (and, really, all major search engines) is crippling if you're really trying to get out a message.

The omission of validation and the lack of any support for mixed content is troubling but not always crippling.

A tiny tadpole can change into a frog, but a 747 Jumbo Jet can't add six inches to its length without crippling itself.

uncertainty about whether authorities in Europe are willing to put money up front to rescue Greece from its crippling debt crisis.

The disease left her with a crippling jumble of nerves jutting out from the base of her spine.

It's true that cleaning up the banking sector will be costly and unpopular, but it need not be crippling for the eurozone as a whole.

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

Lymphedema is a medical condition that causes abnormal swelling of the bottom limbs, eventually leading to crippling deformity.

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

The markets had temporarily turned away from the crippling debt crisis in Europe two weeks ago as the debt ceiling debate in the U.

Only a few weeks ago, Mr Mugabe landed a power deal with Namibia that should help ease Zimbabwe's crippling power cuts.

How could such a drastic shrinking of government take place without crippling essential public functions?

Mainly because of a crippling $288m loan guarantee for a trouble-plagued rubbish incinerator, the city is in a hellish financial state.

For some of us these experiences may be so overwhelming, so intense, and so crippling that they may lead us close to despair.

The weight of work was crippling as she was now doing the jobs of three people.

But even if covered, people have to make large co-payments, which for the elderly and those with serious health problems can be crippling.

So far, Mr. Aso has survived internal party strife following the LDP's crippling loss in a local Tokyo election last week.

That limitation is crippling because many of the most common design patterns rely on being able to pass this as an argument.

You don't want to be nervous all through the date that you might get stuck with a crippling bill.

The plane crash was a crippling blow to the criteria of the crude oil refinery business. To crown it all, buyers got cross at this.

Israel and Egypt would open at least two border crossings into Gaza, easing a crippling blockade.

In a step toward ending a crippling political stalemate, Iraq's prime minister-designate submits his plan for a broad-based cabinet.

The spread threatens one of the most ambitious health campaigns in the world, the effort to destroy the crippling disease once and for all.

These planes are up to 40% thirstier than their more modern counterparts, a crippling burden given the price of fuel.

"It really represents a grim, crippling picture, " he said.

The pain and anguish of that loss echoed through the Force, crippling Leia with despair.

Mills are expensive to turn off and on, while the capital needed to open up a new mine site is crippling.

The U. N. has hit him with crippling sanctions, and even his beloved Ukrainian nurse has flown home.

REPUBLICANS walloped Democrats in November, thanks to concern over big government, high taxes and a crippling deficit.

The dense foliage is thick with disease-carrying insects, parasites and persistent fungi capable of crippling machinery and people alike.

Despite the crippling cost that his support of Bush inflicted on his popularity at home, Blair insists that he did the right thing.

Even if a number of investors ask out, the firm likely will be able to sell investments without crippling their holdings, investors say.

They will usually be the one with a crippling addiction and an acerbic sense of humor.

Desolation hit me with crippling strength.

That might be the price society has to pay to keep the banking system afloat without crippling future taxpayers.

We've signed a couple of new acts, we wanna introduce them to people but the costs of putting out a single are crippling.

I forgive you. Words of forgiveness heal the heart by lifting the crippling burden of guilt.

Investment is restrained by red tape, poor infrastructure and regulatory uncertainty, as well as by the crippling tax burden on business.

Tutankhamun's bone disease was crippling, but on its own would not have been fatal.

Nothing is more apparent in this age of specialties than the dwarfing, crippling, mutilating influence of occupations or professions.

The water buffalo were out sun-bathing in the fields, lying languidly in the crippling heat, but I met few people on the road.

s swiftly rooted out, it takes hold and grows, crippling and eventually even killing those who insist on clinging determinedly to it.

According to a diplomatic cable written by the American ambassador last November, the low recruitment in the south of Pushtuns is crippling.

Avascular necrosis ( AVN ) of the head of the femur is a potentially crippling disease which mainly affects young adults.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe it was the crippling writers' strike or the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste , as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat .

The 2009 meeting was a relatively subdued affair as investors grappled with a crippling recession.

Government and media websites went down and telephone lines were jammed, crippling Georgia's ability to present its case abroad.

They do this in part because governments do not want their exchange rates to soar suddenly, crippling exporters.

The impacts came so rapidly that the dynamo had no time to recover before the next crippling blow arrived.

But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo.

United Nations officials call this a "lack of capacity" and say it could be a crippling problem for an independent southern Sudan.

Its profitability is limited by domestic price regulation and a crippling export tax.

The consequences of this planning has been congested roads, polluted air, loss of farmland and a crippling dependence on petroleum.

And some with that dementia also develop crippling symptoms like Gehrig's, gradually losing control of their muscles.

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

Can help end the crippling monopoly currently in place where Microsoft and Apple are the big boys and tough if you don't like it.

Part boxing, part judo, they are taught to use speed and power to topple their opponent and then deliver a crippling blow to his throat.

It could also give a boost to the big privatisation programme that the government is planning, to help cut its crippling debt burden.

Therefore estimates of growth in 2005 (up to 2%) are much more favourable than in the crippling German economy.

But in the short-term the best safety net is a safety net that works -- effectively, efficiently, and without crippling the economy.

Such large financial overheads are not for the fainthearted and on graduation students can find themselves with crippling debts.

Grotesquely overblown military spending and debt addiction are crippling United States.

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

The handset in your hotel room usually carries a crippling surcharge. The modem point may also be surcharged.

Soaring world food prices have put a crippling burden on Africa as a net food importer.

And since leaving he's waged a campaign to highlight what he believes is a crippling debt habit in American public finance.

Hamas wants Israel and Egypt to open their border crossings and ease a crippling blockade on Gaza.

The experimental drug uses a virus to try and block a substance that fuels the joint inflammation behind crippling forms of arthritis.

If your venture fails, you'll be left with a nasty bill, probably with crippling interest rates.

Crippling debts forces the company to close down.

As bond yields edged higher recently, several Wall Street banks issued warnings about potentially crippling debt-service costs.

Bari says Afghanistan is the closest of the four endemic countries in stopping the spread of the crippling polio virus.

By tackling the sources of this endemic strife Mr Gallois has removed a crippling distraction.

If, thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms can face potentially crippling fixed expenses.

With total abandon, Wolff urged his mecha deeper and deeper into the madness, destroying, crippling, killing.

Anglo-American forces under General H. Alexander deliver crippling blows to German General-Field Marshal Kesselring's troops.

Fuelled by health problems associated with HIV, a TB epidemic is crippling health services in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The group said if Israel wants a cease-fire it should end military action and its crippling blockade of Gaza.

They stocked up on food and supplies in defiance of a crippling Israeli blockade.

They have redundant mutations which render them stagnant, then unhealthy, then degenerative, and ultimately, crippling.

As symbolic a blow as the vote is to Iran, these are not the "crippling" sanctions that the most fretful Iran-watchers have called for.

Electronic information systems are crippling useful social mechanisms.

Treating these deep and sometimes crippling emotional needs is a crucial component of relief and recovery efforts.

In those cases, falling real-estate prices caused bad debt to mushroom, crippling the banking industry, too, and drying up credit.

Spiking involves hiding metal bars in tree trunks, thereby potentially crippling chain saws and hurting people.

Bad, sleazy government, Mr Narayan says, is holding India back, crippling the country in its race with China.

A crippling ice storm has coated much of the Midwest, leaving road to mess and power lines down.

Environmental and natural resource constraints could also prove crippling.

Feeding this imagination into the early-warning system may lead to crippling chronic anxiety.

My problem wasn't life threatening, but it was temporarily crippling.

Remember, you want a healthy dose of risk management, not a crippling one.

Potentially crippling cost increases could force the delay of "long overdue investments" .

The debts accumulated to pay for imported machinery became crippling as interest rates shot up.

Stock and house prices will fall steeply, depressing wealth and consumption and further crippling banks.

The political infighting has forced the discussion of the country's crippling fiscal deficit onto the back burner.

A malicious user crippling a system and getting superuser rights is a nightmare for any system administrator.

Crippling Blow - Another skill that enhances the attack of the Warriors' weapon of choice.

They have said that knock-off versions of the designer boots are crippling a generation of young women, 'literally breaking' their feet.

and diastrophic dwarfism, with progressive, crippling skeletal deformities.

German and UK banks have crippling exposures to Ireland, French and German banks to Greece, Spanish banks to Portugal.

Haiti also had to borrow to pay crippling reparations to France, the former colonial power: the loans were not paid off until 1947.

Meanwhile the middle-range chain-shot is excellent for taking down masts, crippling your enemy's ability to move.

He built the world's fourth largest army, crippling an economy that he refused to reform, viewing liberalisation as betrayal.

Supporters of Ukraine's new law have little sympathy for the crippling effect it will have on the industry.

Without trees, Haiti lost its topsoil through erosion, crippling agriculture.

For students and their families, the benefits may be more tangible: The chance to graduate from college without a crippling debt burden.

Falling prices would make their already crippling burdens even heavier.

the potential fines and the damage to your reputation could be crippling.

With old plaster-casting, the bone takes longer to knit and crippling effects from muscle in activity result.

The students' role in both crippling the Kuomintang and bolstering the strength of the Communists can hardly be overestimated .

Only by reducing Greece's now crippling debt burden, the troika insists, can a continued crisis be avoided.

The insurer has been battling crippling losses from risky mortgage securities amid the financial crisis.

Still, free billions from Washington during a crippling recession are hard to pass up.

Crippling symptoms of depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and even substance abuse are eased.

Performance anxiety can be crippling.

In September 2008, the energy firm Constellation Energy Group was facing crippling financial difficulties.

It is a crippling population problem that could be worse than any global economic slowdown.

While the attacks caused some business disruption, they were mostly annoying rather than crippling.

The attempt backfired when the credit crisis began, crippling Porsche's ability to pay down debt.

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

Buried inside this chilling lack of ambition are one delusion and one crippling myth.

The hypocrisy in some ranks has hurt the country and apparently is still crippling us.

Not having my medication doesn't mean enduring one bad headache. It means enduring about three days of completely crippling head pain.

She's tried putting it off until late at night, but the lack of sleep often leads to crippling migraines.

One rogue employee can't easily cause a crippling probe into an otherwise blameless company.

Also crippling fear can result from taking an imagined painful future too seriously.

These and other initiatives have reduced the crippling statist bias and extended the role of markets and civil society.

Terror Groups Lack Ability to Mount Crippling Internet-Based Attacks, FBI Says.

If you start erecting barriers to free trade of services, there's a risk of crippling the economy.

It's also expected to ease some of Nairobi's crippling traffic.

South Africa's crippling public sector strike has been suspended for 21 days, pending the outcome of more consultations with union members.

Ukraine's logic is clearer. The budget deficit is crippling. A big drain on the public purse is subsidised domestic gas prices.

But being a hypochondriac can be crippling.

It is scaring everyone into not talking, and that's crippling for science.

There is power disease and decay. Mages who study it risk their health and sanity. But learn to inflict crippling curses on their foes.

The benefits of a state-controlled system were on display last year when China was hit by a crippling blizzard and earthquake.

After all the debate about soaring health-care costs -- a big cause of U. S. fiscal problems -- crippling deficits loom.

As a result, many suffer conditions ranging from mild dental fluorosis to crippling skeletal fluorosis.

In some ways it is worse than child-crippling polio, still lingering in parts of Nigeria.

The most crippling weakness of the trilogy, however, is its hero.

you ain't doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You are crippling them. You are crippling for life.

For corporate America, health care has become a crippling expense.

Students graduate with crippling debts.

China endures a crippling drought, and then punishing floods.

Mr Brown said that failure to conclude an agreement "could deal a potentially crippling blow to the future of the WTO" .

the state has imposed crippling fines on newspapers.

In the eyes of nature, we are her children, despite procession of adolescence or crippling and stumbling for old age.

Today, we have put al-Qaida on the defensive in Iraq, and now we are working to deliver a crippling blow.

The companies' Chairman Fuijo Cho cited a relentless sales slide and crippling rise in the Yen as key reasons.

This includes, but is not limited to, abilities such as hamstring, entangling roots, frost nova, crippling poison, etc.

Cause crippling throughout the world.

Finally, China's state-controlled economic boom may soon lead to crippling inflation.

In Australia, falling wool prices in the 1990s and crippling droughts hit the industry hard.

And Pluto can reveal the selfish, greedy, and emotionally crippling aspects of ourselves too.

Was cursed with crippling arthritis.

Between 1520 and 1650, Spain's economy suffered crippling and unrelenting inflation in the so-called Price Revolution.

Persistent fuel shortages are crippling relief efforts in some areas.

Thus we should take even crippling action to avert trivial hardships that may befall our long, long line of descendants.

Egyptian authorities opened the border with Gaza for the first time in months, partially easing a crippling blockade.

Since fear is crippling , a fearful life fear of death, fear of judgment-is one not yet fully formed in love.

The high unemployment rate has a crippling effect on the economy.

Each time they faced crippling strikes.

Now the No. 1 issue has become freedom from crippling debt and restoring fiscal balance in the developed world.

The high unemployment has a crippling effect on the economy.

He was burdened with crippling debts.

If we can shift the immune system to attack the conserved proteins instead, flu cannot mutate to escape without crippling its own machinery.

In severe cases, it can cause changes to bone structure, calcification of ligaments, and crippling effects.

Crippling the bug before that stage is key, he says.

Labour costs are crippling: pension and health-care costs have risen 42% in the past five years, according to the Manhattan Institute.

The offense of willfully maiming or crippling a person.

Falling prices can make businesses and consumers reluctant to spend and invest, hurting profits and crippling the economy.

It's jammed the back flywheel! It's crippling us!

But, as taxes go, hardly crippling.

Strikes were as crippling as taxes.

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

Some say the government could slam on the brakes, crippling growth.

A broken marriage, a crippling car wreck, war, a miscarriage. . . we know the pain.

It is great because it seeks to prevent crippling injuries and death by removing the causes of home, highway and work accident.

Is there a cure? I heard this is a crippling disease.

Again, this is hardly crippling.

But when Soonae was 10 years old she was hit by a bus while crossing the street, suffering crippling mental and physical damage.

a crippling disease which sentenced him to a lifetime in a wheelchair

Recognizing the crippling power of distractions

Analysis Method on First Crippling Strength for Multiple-bolted Composite Joints

Design of Stainless Steel Tubular Sections Subjected to Web Crippling under One-Flange Loading

Ruinous economic policies led to crippling debt

How cheap imitation Ugg boots are 'crippling' a generation of fashion victim women

Free trade, loss of support systems crippling food production in Africa | News and Communication Services | Oregon State University

Britain's immigration policy is crippling business and the economy. Wake up, Mr Cameron

onerous new capital requirements could have a crippling effect on lending

the crippling effect of sanctions on the economy

Because it's not just Negroes but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice