Sentence examples for crippling degree from inspiring English sources

Industrious, and conscientious to a sometimes crippling degree (he supported his mother and two of his sisters, with whom he also lived, off and on), Wilder worked within the margins of literature's prevailing taste.

Fourteen years ago, I visited an aunt who was homebound due to a very crippling degree of arthritis.

In short, the class of 2009 faces crippling debt, devalued degrees, and more competition than ever.

We can't be a country that tells Michael and millions like him that college is important but then allows predatory institutions to stick them with crippling debt, worthless degrees and an uncertain future.

It's disturbingly easy to get accepted, receive thousands of dollars in loans and then flunk out with crippling debt and no degree to show for it.

The debt amassed by the millennial generation and its descendants is nothing short of crippling, and increasingly a degree (either vocational or academic) is no longer the guarantor of success that it once was.

The aim is to root out colleges that saddle students with crippling debt while giving valueless degrees or often no degrees at all.

Still, by rescuing the company from what could have been crippling claims, the plan provides a degree of protection to holders of Tepco shares and bonds, circumventing chaos in financial markets.

Attorneys general from more than 20 states have joined forces to investigate for-profit colleges that too often saddle students with crippling debt while furnishing them valueless degrees.

And while too few of their students acquire degrees, too many end up saddled with crippling debt".

Yet what is especially crippling about it here, say businessmen and Western diplomats, is the degree to which the generals insist on sticking their fingers in every pie.