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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'cripple for' is not a standard part of English grammar and is not appropriate for use in written English.
If you want to express the idea that something is causing you to be in a difficult position or difficulty, you could use phrases such as 'trapped by', 'hampered by', or 'limited by'. For example: "We are severely hampered by a lack of resources in this project."
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"Even when not fatal, it can cripple for life.
Not only the [Ken ]Norton fight would've been not happening, but Ali could've been a cripple for the rest of his life".
Writing to Buber after the publication of I and Thou, Rosenzweig would not be the last critic to complain, "In your setting up the I-IT, you give the I-Thou a cripple for an opponent".
He was a cripple, for god's sake, and the world is cold and cruel!
A broken ankle left her hospitalized for a month "and totally out of it, a cripple for four months.
Marja, broken-hearted over the silence of Claude, attempts suicide by throwing herself from an eminence and is found by Gerald, a cripple for life.
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One friend was shot, crippled for life.
Will future cripples, for example, be wrongly aborted?
Mary contracted polio, and was crippled for life.
He was badly crippled for life and rendered unable to do physical or mental labor.
We are not even counting the thousands who have returned crippled for life.
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