Sentence examples for Once crippled from inspiring English sources

At once crippled and cosseted by fear, the hypochondriac suffered in order to work, to write or to discover in solitude".

That is one of several reasons to wonder whether the splits that once crippled their party may reappear.All of Britain's big parties are rumbling coalitions of interests, attitudes and ambitions.

It has since emerged that Brown had links to drug dealing, owed debts of more than £45,000 to other Johnson Crew members and had once crippled a member of the Burger Bar Boys.

The long-standing Rotary partnership "has brought about the near-eradication of a disease that once crippled millions of children and adults," said Dr. Momen.

By Simon Ingram CAIRO, 1 September 2005 – As Indonesia strives to contain a recent polio outbreak, Egypt is in the last stages of freeing itself from the disease, which once crippled thousands of children here every year.

Polio transmission levels are now at their lowest ever, with the virus beaten back to only a few remaining reservoirs in India, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Niger, and Nigeria, presenting an unprecedented opportunity to eradicate a disease that once crippled hundreds of thousands of children each year.

Thus, the system was once again crippled by a problem that would never have arisen in federal court.

Once you cripple the upper class, the lower class also falls.

We walked into town once and were crippled.

The opposition counters that it is these same ministers who created the debt; they are answered, in turn, by the argument that it is Hizbullah's relentless militancy that has crippled once-hopeful efforts to leverage loans into investment.

Thus Jane takes Rochester once he has been crippled and blinded, unable to exert his male power.