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Led by General Miltiades, the Athenians inflicted a crippling and humiliating defeat on the Persians.
3) The Wall Street Journal accelerated the backspin against military action with a Wednesday piece criticizing "facile Washington commentary" that exaggerates the ease of deposing or crippling Saddam Hussein through force.
Actually, given the crippling effect of the gay controversy on the first six months of Clinton's presidency, it implied Gore was willing to give the gay issue priority over non-military issues as well.
Musharraf accused former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of weakening the military, crippling the economy, and tolerating corruption.
These arrears are crippling the United Nations, which gets a quarter of its $2.