Sentence examples for crippling penalties from inspiring English sources
Ships took three years to build (not helped by frequent strikes at the militant yard), incurring crippling penalties for late deliveries.
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act even includes a clause that any "conspirator" organization would be fined 10 times more than a trespasser, opening the door to crippling penalties for environmental groups.
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, last week attacked the requirement to have insurance, the so-called individual mandate, as potentially imposing a crippling penalty of $1,500 on a family earning as little as $25,000 a year.
The North Carolina Legislature took just four hours at a special session yesterday to pass a law to protect the state's tobacco companies from potentially industry-crippling penalties in a class-action smoking lawsuit in Florida.
The F.T.C. quickly set out to debunk the idea that it intended to (or even could) hammer bloggers with crippling financial penalties.
It was fiercely opposed by the newspaper industry, which said the potential for crippling financial penalties would impact free speech, discouraging the press from conducting difficult investigations and holding powerful people to account.
Suddenly, Railtrack found itself locked in a contract with Virgin to deliver a non-existent signalling system on the entire west coast mainline by a firm date - 2005 - with crippling financial penalties if it failed to do so.
"And we want a financial distribution model that means even though you may suffer the sporting penalty of relegation you don't have to suffer a crippling financial penalty at the same time".
They are designed to offset as far as they can the inequalities that arise from the chances of life, to ensure that a "bad start" or a stroke of bad luck, illness or accident or loss of work, does not carry the heavy, often crippling, economic penalty it has carried in the past.
The six would consider "limited, targeted and reversible relief that does not affect our core sanctions," he said, alluding to penalties crippling Tehran's oil exports.
