Sentence examples for are crippled from inspiring English sources
verb
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
Tens of thousands are crippled.
Some sectors are crippled by unemployment.
The parties are crippled, with many senior members in jail.
We are crippled by tuition fees and debt.
Belarus's 10 million people are crippled by poverty and strictly controlled by Mr Lukashenko's secret police.
What about those who are crippled, rather than inspired, by repression?
They are crippled by an inability to build real emotional connections with other people.
Even if they keep workers on the payroll until they retire, GM and Ford are crippled by their past generosity.
And so, the apples rot, businesses are crippled, and dreams of fresh life in a new country are dashed.
Defaults are damaging and costly: banks are crippled, governments fall, populations suffer and countries are frozen out of capital markets.
