Sentence examples for crippled state from inspiring English sources

William H. Timbers Jr. is dead right (letter, Feb. 7): passage of the House tax-reform bill has crippled state and local government efforts to raise capital.

The measures are President Raúl Castro's biggest maneuver yet as he strives to get capital flowing on the island, encourage private enterprise and take pressure off the economically crippled state.

He has been pushing state legislators to reach an agreement on how to fix Illinois's pension problems, which have crippled state bond ratings and cast a shadow over the governor's tenure.

The problem will be exacerbated by the country's crippled state since the Jan . 12earthquake, which killed upwards of 250,000 people and left one million homeless, living in squalid tent encampments.

D'r. SIR, -- Since my last nothing new has occurred, I suppose the crippled state of Congress is not new to you.

This has seen a country transformed, from its weak and crippled state under Boris Yeltsin to a resource-rich, increasingly confident country.

Had this prohibition had been adopted and retained, it would cripple state government today.

"This is something that can cripple state and municipal governments at a time when the federal government is, more and more, cutting back on the services it provides," he said.

Unless the Labour party starts to show some mettle, we will be stuck with a system that cripples state education, preserves the class structure and permits a few thousand frightening, retentive people to rule over us.

BBC Correspondent in Colombo say, the workers' threat to "cripple state services" seems to have had little impact with railways and hospitals functioning normally.

Governors, particularly in states with high levels of poverty, are expressing concern that such an expansion could financially cripple states [ 22].