Sentence examples for crippling inflation from inspiring English sources

Around the world, some warn the unusual strategy will weaken the dollar and lead to crippling inflation.

Two years later, Mr. Nixon pressured Mr. Burns to help the economy by printing vast amounts of money, contributing to an era of crippling inflation.

A social and economic crisis in Venezuela – which boasts the world's largest oil reserves but suffers from crippling inflation, widespread shortages and spiralling crime – led voters to punish the PSUV at the polls.

Earlier, more than 5,000 protesters banged pots, blew horns and whistles and carried banners in the capital to decry crippling inflation and shortages of basics including flour, milk and toilet paper.

NAIROBI, Kenya — At a time of drought, skyrocketing food prices, crippling inflation and intensifying street fighting, many of the aid workers whom millions of Somalis depend on for survival are fleeing their posts — or in some cases the country.

Venezuela's self-styled socialist experiment faces its toughest test yet this weekend in a parliamentary election held amid crippling inflation and spiralling crime that appear to have turned the tide against the late Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian revolution".

Massive foreign loans had been taken out to build the capital, and a crippling currency inflation was the result.

Between 1520 and 1650, Spain's economy suffered crippling and unrelenting inflation in the so-called Price Revolution.

Even all of these years later, I am given pause as I read about staggering inflation, crippling unemployment, extreme poverty and a seemingly never ending brain drain from Zimbabwe.

By Tsitsi Singizi BUHERA, Zimbabwe, 5 September 2006 – Like all Zimbabweans, the people of Buhera have endured some of the world's worst inflation, crippling unemployment and an HIV emergency.

But with inflation so crippling, many shoppers at those stores said the inconvenience was worth it.