Sentence examples for crippling handicap from inspiring English sources
Warner prepared a generally sympathetic profile, but the piece also took into account what she described as Bush's "potentially crippling handicap" — a perception that he wasn't tough enough for the job.
The host of that particular show was Jeanine Pirro, a former judge and district attorney who was deemed bombastic enough to gain a toehold at Fox several years ago, despite her crippling handicap of being neither blonde nor routinely coherent.
The best cooks, whether in Brazil or Thailand or France, for that matter, seem to come from those countries' poorest regions, where cooks free of "the crippling handicap of affluence" (as A.J. Liebling put it) are compelled to make the most of things.
On the other hand, the lack of perceptual capacities can be a crippling handicap in one's attempt to negotiate the world: similarly a lack of adequate emotional responses can hinder our attempts to view the world correctly and act correctly in it (Nussbaum 1990, Thomas 1989).
The answer, which may be of some comfort to the 21-year-old German as she looks back on her 6-4, 6-3 defeat, is that Maria Sharapova dredged up every ounce of her once-familiar competitive ferocity in order to overcome what should have been a crippling self-imposed handicap.
What is clear is that any candidate who does not fit that description will enter the race with a crippling, though not necessarily insuperable, handicap.
A Daily Mail editorial called "the crippling green taxes imposed by Ed Miliband's Climate Change Act in 2008" a "monstrous handicap" that had driven the steelworks and its 5,000 workers over the precipice.
Students graduate with crippling debts.
It also has crippling limits.
