Sentence examples for an effort to cripple from inspiring English sources

There will be an effort to cripple and to demoralize the Sunni community.

Republicans have added several ideologically charged provisions to their budget-cutting bill in an effort to cripple the new health care law, block new emissions rules, limit enforcement of last year's Wall Street overhaul and to rein in the Obama White House in other ways.

There was talk of potential Israeli military action against Iran in an effort to cripple its nuclear programme.

Since IS operatives attacked Paris last week, killing 129 people and injuring scores of others, the US has stepped up its strikes on the organization's oil assets in an effort to cripple its finances.

The US has stepped up its strikes on IS oil assets since the Paris attacks in an effort to cripple its finances, in a campaign known as "Tidal Wave II".

This is a reckless effort to cripple an irreplaceable organization out of pure politics.

Statistics in the report also indicated that Iran has begun to recover from the effects of the Stuxnet computer worm, which first struck the country nearly two years ago in an apparent effort to cripple its production of nuclear fuel.

Michael Kelly, who heads the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, described Mr. Jackson's recent budget as part of a continuing "effort to cripple, dismantle, devalue and defund public housing as we know it".

There was a spike in the number of suicide attacks, and AQI rebounded in strength through November 2009 and appeared to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the government.

What's more, the military commanders noted that they even lacked the legal authority to respond — especially because it was never clear if the attack was an act of vandalism, an attempt at commercial theft or a state-sponsored effort to cripple the United States, perhaps as a prelude to a conventional war.

The record industry's largely successful effort to cripple Napster, the online music site turned social phenomenon, has left it facing something potentially worse: a new generation of music-swapping sites, more numerous and much harder to police.