Sentence examples for crippling legacy from inspiring English sources

The real culprits include Chicago's anemic economy, the crippling legacy of machine politics, the uncompromising unions and the handful of dynasties running the city.

The President continued: "Their cause must be our cause... because it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice".

"Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.

"Because it's not just Negroes, but really it's all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.

The last of the region's big banks still in state hands, it was excluded from privatisation in the early 1990s because of its crippling legacy of communist-era housing loans.

The crippling legacy of the coalition's new system of tuition fees is laid bare today, with a government analysis that shows Britain will be loading almost £200bn of debt on to the students of the future.

Building political and economic institutions was never going to be easy in a geographically scattered country with a crippling colonial legacy — low literacy, high unemployment, and inflation.

He still has the in-basket, and the crippling financial legacy of his predecessor, yet slowly and surely, bit-by-bit, he and Hilary Clinton have been building up America's diplomatic and political capital in the world.

We have finally disposed of the crippling burden of our legacy retiree costs.

While the management changes - provided they also bring an improvement in fund performance - may help to discourage investors from cashing in, it may not have that much impact on New Star's share price, as its collapse is largely due to its crippling debt - a legacy of its £364m return of capital to shareholders (including Duffield and some of his managers) during 2007.

Ettinger talked about something that he calls the "legacy effect," the crippling hold of the past.