Sentence examples for and the crippling of from inspiring English sources

Incisive, uncondescending and quietly compassionate, Sweat explores how the decline of industry and the crippling of unions goads the manufacturing class into racist and anti-immigrant positions.

The failure of Task Force Hawk made it clear that the 82nd's "speed bump" status in the Gulf War and the crippling of armored units in the Balkans by their own heft were two sides of the same problem.

There is of course a second and much more disturbing possible implication of spiking lending rates in China - which is that the slowdown in credit creation will lead to tumbling asset prices, widespread bankruptcies and the crippling of the banking and wider financial system.

Commentators who envision Barack Obama running on his foreign-policy successes in this year's campaign generally adduce examples like the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the crippling of al-Qaeda.

The killing of Osama bin Laden and the crippling of Al Qaeda, the president said, meant that "a terrorist organization that has actively sought nuclear weapons is now on the path to defeat".

With the disappearance of Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Lehman, and the crippling of Citigroup and big English banks, a financial oligopoly tantamount to a cartel has sprung into existence.

And this tends to strain the "spirit of unity and goodwill" that Deukmejian talked proudly about in his State of the State Address and hasten the crippling of a lame duck.

Ireland's wonderful Druid theatre has become a regular fixture at Oxford Playhouse with shows such as The Playboy Of The Western World and The Cripple Of Inishmaan.

The young actor, who has carved out an impressive stage career since the days of wands and wizardry with roles in Equus and The Cripple of Inishmaan, is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.

With the Leenane trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West) and The Cripple of Inishmaan, McDonagh certainly had fun pastiching elements of traditional Irish theatre.

Most reassuring of all was to be reminded that McDonagh's early work, including The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Cripple of Inishmaan, was no flash in the pan.