Sentence examples for cripple the infrastructure from inspiring English sources

In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane brings Gotham to its knees after he puts explosives in the city's cement (to cripple the infrastructure), and then threatens Gotham with a neutron bomb.

A major hurricane, tsunami or malevolent act of man could cripple the infrastructure that was largely designed and installed during the two decades after statehood, during an age where fossil fuel was cheap and abundant; when no one could imagine that the price of gasoline would rise above $1 a gallon.

"The tough policy choice would be to figure out how to have effective information technology sanctions on Iran that would cripple the infrastructure of the regime while still allowing civil society groups to use Facebook, Google or Twitter to get news or information about the world and get news and information to their family and friends," he said.

4. Lights Still Out Thirteen years of bombings and sanctions crippled the infrastructure and basic services of what was once a wealthy country.

Families here are still recovering from decades of war, which has crippled the infrastructure, leaving thousands of children without access to schools, basic health care, and clean water.

Large scale disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011) cripple the local infrastructure.

"There are 2 main goals of this IDF operation: to protect Israeli civilians and to cripple the terrorist infrastructure in the  #Gaza Strip," the I.D.F.

But the less frequent, more severe kind of space weather call it a 100-year storm can fry technology and cripple the energy infrastructure.

The film, directed by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney (whose many directing credits include "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine," and "Taxi to the Dark Side"), details claims that the malware Stuxnet joint-developed by the U.Stuxnet joint-developedto penetrate computers at an Iranian uranium enrichment facility and had potential to cripple much of the infrastructure at Iran's nuclear sites.

Mr. Barak was facing pressure from right-wing leaders and some northern Israeli community leaders to order an immediate bombardment of Lebanon, similar to the retaliatory air-strikes in June that crippled the Lebanese infrastructure and killed eight civilians.

–Exchange and Bank Stocks: Any attack that cripples the financial infrastructure either by shutting down Internet and telecommunications or by physically closing an exchange would make shares in these companies vulnerable.