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Example sentences for: crippling

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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."
The judges' 2-1 decision deals a crippling blow to the FDA's efforts to curb the targeting of underage smokers.
But packet switching is not terribly reliable: Packets routinely get lost or delayed, crippling communication.
Izvestiya 's lead story Thursday claimed the Russian government is playing down the crippling effects of drought on the country's grain harvest because it knows it cannot afford to provide compensation to farmers.
Led by General Miltiades, the Athenians inflicted a crippling and humiliating defeat on the Persians.