Sentence examples for crippling costs from inspiring English sources

If that doesn't happen, it could face crippling costs.

The wind industry claims that the requirements would place "crippling" costs upon it.

Because the crippling costs of renting in London mean many people simply cannot raise enough money to secure decent accommodation.

Cases of cancer in Britain will treble in the next 20 years, inflicting crippling costs on the National Health Service, a report says.

Sir Nicholas Stern's report last year made clear the importance of investing now to avoid the crippling costs of adapting to a changing climate in the future.

Elderly people will no longer have to sell their homes to pay for social care because we've capped the crippling costs.

Potentially crippling cost increases could force the delay of "long overdue investments".

Fighting wars against the French for the best part of a generation had come at a crippling cost.

We would have a balanced budget, but at a crippling cost in human potential and long term growth.

For communities impoverished by drought, overlooked by the police, and cut adrift from modernity, this is a crippling cost.

Of that some £110m was absorbed by employees and directors as a reward for their past success.But the payout came at a crippling cost.