Sentence examples for cripple themselves from inspiring English sources

The OECD shows that the average household income in Chile is only $17,773 £11,7188) meaning that domestically families have to financially cripple themselves for tuition fees.

In Foxcatcher, it's not so smarting: we expect sportsmen to cripple themselves, just as we expect interns at merchant banks to work all hours by hoovering coke in the loo.

She explored why the practice persisted for so long: it was perpetuated by women, because they believed it was a way to gain an advantage in a male-controlled marriage market; and it functioned as a class signifier, because peasant women working in the fields could not afford to cripple themselves.

"They are crippling themselves terribly," one lobbyist lamented to The Washington Post.

Veterans should stop crippling themselves and begin to participate in the exercise of their rights as an influential and effective institution in a participatory democracy.

In principle, taxpayers could fund all this directly without crippling themselves – and fund it they should, if they believe it will improve the politics of this country.

Maybe people were less impressed by a money-back guarantee and more eager to shell out $289 for actors crippling themselves in Spider-Man.

Within days of the attack, city, state and federal bodies that were in many cases crippled themselves set up a one-stop shopping center for victims' families and affected businesses on a West Side pier.

After spending 14 months researching what every parent already knows (and what the A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., established in an 18-month study), namely, that schoolchildren are virtually crippling themselves carrying books to school, Nike has introduced a line of carryalls that hit the ergonomic buttons.

The crippled reactors themselves, and the undoubtedly frenzied work going on there, were obscured by hills, some with cherry trees in full blossom.

American planners appeared to have chosen the targets as much for symbolic reasons, to humiliate Mr. Hussein and encourage ordinary Iraqis eager for an end to his repression, as out of any expectation that they could, by themselves, cripple the regime.