Sentence examples for crippling action from inspiring English sources

Netanyahu and his rightwing cabinet will wait for the "crippling" action against Tehran anticipated by secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Thus we should take even crippling action to avert trivial hardships that may befall our long, long line of descendants.The present deserves a break for another reason, Mr Nordhaus says.

"We will still hold the door open [for negotiations], but we also have made it clear that we will take actions, as I have said time and time again, crippling action working to upgrade the defences of our partners in the region," Clinton told Thai television.

Starting from experimental evidence, the authors of the present paper assume that purlins are semi-continuous at the junction between the single and lapped sections, and propose to take into account the web crippling action at the edge of the lapped zone in interaction with the bending moment.

BA only narrowly avoided crippling strike action over the Christmas period - but the threat of industrial action is expected to have had an impact on bookings as fliers sought alternatives over the festive period.

A series of strikes, culminating in the crippling industrial action of 1982-83, brought Mumbai's textile industry to its knees.

SPORADIC strikes by postmen over the past 16 weeks will turn into crippling nationwide action from October 22nd, if the two sides in a bitter dispute over working conditions and pay cannot get closer.

His world was not theirs, the world of causes — social, historical, economic — but something almost causeless, the mal du siècle, in its turn-of-the-century form: the crippling of action by thought, the erasure of the present by the future (fantasy) and the past (remorse).

What began as a small lawsuit brought by four former Uber drivers against the tech-titan just expanded into a potentially industry-crippling class action suit that could force the company to rethink its entire business model.

There is other work being done, under Lord Dyson, the master of the rolls, to reduce the crippling costs of libel action, which have such a chilling effect on publishers.

Those who formed Ipso (apart from funding its operation) did so knowing that HMG seemed committed to activating section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 so that once a "recognised regulator" took to the stage, as Impress has now done, publishers faced paying the crippling costs of libel actions even if they won the case.