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Example sentences for: crippling

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At the great Sauternes vineyard Château d'Yquem they make none of their legendary wine if the weather has been particularly bad--a crippling financial decision, less and less likely to be made as the old standards of the owner, the Comte de Lurs-Saluces, are replaced by those of management gnomes.
In the course of researching and writing this article I suffered crippling bouts of gas and added 6 pounds of blubber around my middle.
Editorial pages and pundits agreed: If a conservative ideologue like Rehnquist says the Senate is crippling the federal courts, then Something Must Be Done.
It, too, was toppled, during the 1871 Commune at the instigation of painter Gustave Courbet, who had to pay the crippling cost of having it re-erected two years later.
With all due respect to TMJ sufferers, Keeping Tabs can't help but note that Shields' symptoms, while no doubt troublesome, seem to fall just a bit short of "crippling."