Sentence examples for cripple sales from inspiring English sources

In doing so, Jobs joins a chorus of critics who argue that by locking up digital music, the record companies make their product less attractive and cripple sales.

But with cigarettes contributing 10% of the excise (indirect tax charged on domestic sales of products) revenues to a deficit-ridden exchequer, the government must tread with caution, lest it cripple sales.

But the recession crippled sales taxes and blew gaping holes in the county's financial ledger.

The decline in housing construction has crippled sales of pickup trucks, too.

In recent years outbreaks of mad cow disease crippled sales of beef products in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.

The loss could have crippled sales at a critical time, he says, but the recommendation technology from Richrelevance helped the company made it through unscathed.

And they will; not to make a fair return on ebooks but rather to cripple their sales in order to protect early hardback book sales.

Toyota's safety problems could cripple hybrid sales.

He stuck it out through a national tracheal mite epidemic in the 1980s; through a flood of Chinese honey that crippled domestic sales in the 1990s; and, so far, through the bee plague of the 2000s.

He had come here with a gelding he found three years ago at the racing equivalent of a car-boot sale, a cripple whose previous trainer had cashed him in for the equivalent of £450.

In the years before he arrived, flooding had destroyed its library and some instruments, the fall of Enron had hurt its fortunes, and a 24-day strike had crippled morale, depressed ticket sales and drove off several musicians.