Sentence examples for crippling damage from inspiring English sources

But in-depth analysis showed that the arm suffered no crippling damage, said Ron Dittemore, the space shuttle program manager.

NASA then had to make sure the carbon fiber structure of the robotic arm had suffered no crippling damage by being bumped by a work platform, said Ron Dittemore, the space shuttle program manager in Houston.

In Montenegro, the last remaining republic still tied to Serbia in what is left of Yugoslavia, Mr. Kostunica is straining to repair the crippling damage inflicted by Mr. Milosevic.

"As damaging as they are, these cuts don't begin to reflect the crippling damage sequestration will do to our armed forces and national security," he said in a statement.

While grids in higher latitudes are especially vulnerable, the growth of the transmission network in the United States, which now includes about 200,000 miles of high-voltage lines, has increased the risk that a severe storm here will cause crippling damage.

In particular, the 1943 Tottori earthquake caused crippling damage to Tottori City and its surroundings due to strong ground motions.

He added: "It means a magazine such as Private Eye or websites for which regulation was never intended could face crippling damages which could put them out of business".

Ruling that the online music start-up company MP3.com had willfully infringed the copyrights of the Universal Music Group, a federal judge yesterday ordered the company to pay potentially crippling damages in one of the first cases to test the legal boundaries of digital music distribution.

The military historian Correlli Barnett has argued that "in objective truth the Great War in no way inflicted crippling economic damage on Britain" but that the war only "crippled the British psychologically" (emphasis in original).

PATERSON, N.J. — President Obama, surveying some of the most crippling flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene, vowed on Sunday that budgetary wrangling in Washington would not delay federal aid to stricken communities.

Gore went on to decry corporate decisions to develop herbicide-resistant crops and a bacterium that could prevent commercially crippling frost damage to crops.