Sentence examples for cripple power from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON — Even while rapidly expanding its electronic surveillance around the world, the National Security Agency has lobbied inside the government to deploy the equivalent of a "Star Wars" defense for America's computer networks, designed to intercept cyberattacks before they could cripple power plants, banks or financial markets.
Critics fear that green goals will trump economic realities and that the rules will cripple power generation and kill jobs.
Weather.com's experts admonish us to prepare for more large-scale climate events that will cause extreme property damage, contaminate water supplies and cripple power grids resulting in prolonged power outages.
According to Hamilton, the Clause was needed only to guard against cavilling refinements by those seeking to cripple federal power.
It would cripple the power of Congress and the Justice Department to protect voters from discriminatory state rules.
Clarendon Code, (1661 65), four acts passed in England during the ministry of Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, designed to cripple the power of the Nonconformists, or Dissenters.
Sure, Fox News has ruled the ratings for the past decade-and-a-half, but Media Matters has sought to cripple its power to compel news aggregation.
He brought along the exact target chart, and it showed a very carefully worked-out system, according to which only key plants in Leningrad were marked as necessary targets, so as to cripple the power of resistance of the fortress.
Had the move against Pearl Harbor with carrier-based aircraft been ruled impossible by Japan's senior commanders because of some American defensive innovation, those very resourceful men in Tokyo would doubtless have come up with another way to achieve their purpose, for the Japanese government had decided that it was vital to cripple our power in the Pacific.
They launch wave after wave of attacks, crippling the power system and unleashing pestilence and plague.
Bad Luck vs. Bad Practice: Radiation has been detected in rice crops near the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan.
