If certain kinds of thought required devices like paper and pens, then the kind of poverty that precluded them looked as debilitating as a brain lesion.
The N.C.A.A. stopped short of shutting down Penn State's program, but officials insisted that the breadth and significance of the penalties were nearly as debilitating.
Depression and anxiety are real illnesses, and they're as debilitating as they are destructive.
Bessie Smith took another approach, more satisfying but probably just as debilitating.
Less than two years ago, Tranghese described the seemingly annual controversy over the B.C.S. as "debilitating and wearing".
Depending on which part of the system malfunctions, the symptoms can be wide-ranging and confusing, as well as debilitating.
At Riverbend, where residents open their own doors and pick up their own newspapers, a strike just is not viewed as debilitating.
Together with a 48-page report made public recently by investigators from the United States Justice Department's civil rights division, they paint a bleak picture of the schools as debilitating dumping grounds for troubled children.
Bournemouth supporters are certainly unlikely to tolerate sob stories from United, as Howe has had to contend with a fraction of United's resources and an injury roster just as debilitating.
"For four years now the Rohingya have suffered state-sponsored denial of access to healthcare, livelihood, food and civic life as well as debilitating restrictions on their freedom of movement.
This may result in a markedly increased morbidity and substantial loss of function, as well as debilitating cosmesis rather than in a complete termination of life, as is the goal.
