Sentence examples for crippled infrastructure from inspiring English sources

A report from the Government Accountability Office released this month noted various reasons for the slow recovery, including a lack of resources, difficult terrain and crippled infrastructure.

The hurricane crippled infrastructure, blocking roads throughout the area and destroying a hydroelectricity plant in Jacmel.

The widespread flooding and the crippled infrastructure forced officials to rely on a limited number of helicopters to operate search and rescue missions and deliver supplies.

Beyond extreme weather events, human-induced climate change may bring a host of other threats, like more frequent conflicts, crippled infrastructure and lower economic productivity.

Difficulty in reaching parts of the country because of continuing insecurity and crippled infrastructure has compelled UNICEF to employ some unusual methods to distribute school materials.

Experts believe that with billions of dollars of investment in the nation's crippled infrastructure it could produce up to 6m barrels a day within five or six years.

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.

The terrorists employed routine Western technology to strike targets and cripple infrastructure in the United States, using airliners, not missiles or nuclear warheads.

Six months on from a hacking attack that caused a blackout in Kiev, Ukraine, security researchers have warned that the malware that was used in the attack would be "easy" to convert to cripple infrastructure in other nations.

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.