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Example sentences for: crippling

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The Star suggests that Shields' breakdown may be in part attributable to the fact that the "stressed-out" actress is battling a "crippling disease": temporal mandibular joint syndrome, or TMJ, which sounds a bit like the aforementioned floppy trunk syndrome.
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.
The papacy in Rome had lost prestige with the dissolution of the Jesuits and the crippling loss of revenue from the Hapsburg Church reforms.
So for me, at least, this experiment tends to support Microsoft's contention that Jackson didn't really remove Internet Explorer as he claimed to have done but casts doubt on Microsoft's contention that you can't truly remove Internet Explorer without crippling Windows.
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.