Sentence examples for crippled world from inspiring English sources

Even relatively apolitical figures in the Sarkozy government, like Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, have praised Mr. Strauss-Kahn for his performance in Washington, describing how crucial the fund is to the management of the crippled world economy and the shaky euro, and how vital it is that he remain in his post.

A crippled World War II veteran stalks a contractor whose prison-camp betrayal caused a massacre.

If, however, we all live through this grim moment of nuclear and other threats without Asia going up in flames (and then, undoubtedly, a crippled world economy going down in flames), historian Alfred McCoy offers quite a different vision of what World War III in Asia might look like in 2030.

Tony Tan, Singapore's deputy prime minister, pointed out that a ship sunk in the right spot, where the sea lane is only 25m deep, "would cripple world trade".

But virtually all of the proposed provisions that Washington had feared would cripple world food trade and endanger billions of dollars a year in farm exports were watered down or eliminated.

One might blame this on the recession that crippled the world almost a decade ago, in the wake of the global financial crisis set off by the implosion of home values in the United States.

Flint is again the site of a showdown between G.M. and the U.A.W., as a 45-day strike at two auto parts factories has crippled the world's largest auto maker.

This city's downtown was nearly deserted on Monday as police and government officials prepared for an international trade meeting that is likely to draw thousands of protesters, some threatening the same violent tactics that crippled a World Trade Association meeting in Seattle in 1999.

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In fact, there are more rich people today than there were before the credit crisis destroyed Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns and nearly crippled the world's financial industry.

Later DNA analysis established that at least five of these individuals were victims of The Great Plague – also known as The Black Death – that crippled the world in 1665.