Sentence examples for a crippling expense from inspiring English sources

So a retiree with, say, $6,000 in drug expenses would find himself paying the full $4,500 -- a crippling expense for many families.

Owning the consumer may look attractive the margins are better, and there are those sirens of ego and fame that go with having a brand but buying your way to that can be a crippling expense.

Along with tuition, many charge illegal admission fees that run as high as $150,000, a crippling expense that students must recoup from patients after they graduate.

Now we have a situation where the crippling expense of higher education not only puts off 17- and 18-year-olds applying to university, it also puts off 13- and 14-year-olds even thinking about going.

The Jeune École school of thought of the 1870s and 1880s sought alternatives to the crippling expense and debatable utility of a conventional battlefleet.

Because of the crippling expense of mainstream Western theatre and the development of these experimental groups, the theatre in the late 20th century has become highly polarized.

Various surprises lay in wait, not the least of which was the crippling expense of the expedition: Louis VII of France had reached no further than Hungary when he began sending urgently to Paris for extra funds.

Ten others fell out of trees while watching the rally, and did not have their broken bones fixed.Economists fear that the hiring of witchdoctors is adding to the already crippling expense of Kenyan funerals, the number of which has increased sharply thanks to AIDS.

HSBC avoided the crippling expense of paying idle dealmakers throughout most of the downturn, not to mention the suspicion of Eliot Spitzer.

Historians tells us that one of the contributory factors to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire was the crippling expense of the state-organised circuses that distracted the populace from the tiresome realities of life in Rome.

His points about the uselessness of leafleting as a publicity tool, the crippling expenses involved in taking a show to Edinburgh and the woefully long odds of success were all fair ones.