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Example sentences for: cripple

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Also in The New Yorker , an admiring profile of business-news tycoon Michael Bloomberg suggests that he has the brains and financial muscle to cripple Dow Jones.
Quoting a military manual leaked to the Jakarta Post , the paper said platoon leaders have been authorized to use live ammunition "in self-defense to cripple rioters who are clearly threatening to kill others [or to] cause heavy material damage."
The only way to squelch subversive messages is to block the Internet entirely, which would cripple economic growth.
Last year's spin: Confused computers could cripple basic services.
National policies could increase the number of charter schools, cripple local education bureaucracies, and limit the power of evil teachers unions.