Sentence examples for crippled operation from inspiring English sources

Some wondered whether UP's crippled operation would ever recover.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Port operators along the East Coast have reached a tentative deal on a new contract with the union for longshoremen, averting a possible strike that would have crippled operations at 15 ports, according to a federal mediator.

For now, the threat of a strike at Delphi — an action that could cripple operations at G.M., its largest customers — is mostly symbolic.

In the second such salvo in as many days, Hamas said it fired three rockets at the airport on Friday, an apparent bid to cripple operations there anew.

The ensuing political crisis has crippled government operations.

The resulting power outage has either shut down both government and private hospitals or severely crippled their operations.

The demonstrations last year by the P.A.D. yellow shirts -- largely led by Mr. Sondhi -- crippled the operations of the pro-Thaksin government for months and shut down the capital's airports for a week in December.

In addition, American faced an easier comparison with results in the quarter a year earlier, when its bookings were weakened by the aftermath of a pilot sickout that crippled its operations.

Rather, he said, it was a military offensive last year by Angolan government forces that chased Unita away from diamond mines and finally crippled its smuggling operation.

But the loss of a cooling system will cripple station operations until the problem can be resolved.

These crude instances of cyber-mischief involve overloading the victims' servers with requests so as to cripple their operations.