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Example sentences for: cripple

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In Hong Kong the South China Morning Post reported on its front page that Indonesia's anti-riot forces have been ordered "to shoot to cripple rather than kill" in clashes with protestors.
When he got caught telling a dumb, nasty about Chelsea Clinton--the kind of crack that might cripple the career of someone else in Congress--he apologized immediately, was forgiven by the president, and the love-in continued.
Just one lawsuit can empty a firm's coffers and cripple its reputation.
If they can't have their own man in the Oval Office, it seems, they will do anything--no matter how petty or self-serving or just plain stupid--to cripple the Democratic agenda that won Clinton his office not once, but two times in a row.
Henry VI was the Jimmy Carter of the 15 th century: Ostentatiously pious, surrounded by mediocrities, and oblivious to England's crumbling international prestige, he managed to cripple the military and bankrupt the government simultaneously.