Sentence examples for A crippling setback from inspiring English sources

One senior Bush official said that while the governor could endure a defeat here next Saturday, it would be a crippling setback with the potential to lead major supporters to defect to Mr. McCain.

"It's a setback, but it's by no means a crippling setback," said Harvey Lichtenstein, the chairman of the two-year-old nonprofit development corporation, which is coordinating a 10-year, $560 million plan to create a cultural district of theaters, dance studios, loft housing and performance spaces.

The long quest to revive the nation's nuclear power industry suffered a crippling setback Monday when two South Carolina utilities halted construction on a pair of reactors that once were expected to showcase a modern design for a new age of nuclear power.

His departure is seen not only as a crippling blow to Democratic efforts to regain control of the Senate but also as a setback to across-the-aisle cooperation, which is increasingly rare these days.

The rebellion had been struck a crippling blow.

The 2018 midterm election looked last Tuesday like a serious but not crippling setback for Republicans, yet the picture has grown grimmer for the party since then as a more complete tally of votes has come in across the country.

The resulting German-occupied territory held 64% of France's pig-iron production, 24% of its steel manufacturing and 40% of the total coal mining capacity, dealing a serious, but not crippling setback to French industry.

But it was not the crippling setback it could have been.

As Vote Hemp notes in its press release, Kentucky is not the first state to push for industrial hemp at the state level, only to encounter crippling setbacks due to federal strictures.

This has a crippling impact.

A crippling responsibility.