Sentence examples for crippling storm from inspiring English sources

Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the governor, said the government was functioning well in the face of a crippling storm, which came at a difficult time for travelers.

During Wednesday's crippling storm, when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Web site was overwhelmed by people seeking the latest information and directions, legions of commuters had to rely on station agents scrawling updates on white boards.

Even if those farms do not materialize as fast as was once imagined, the sponsors argue that the transmission line is justified because it would allow faster recovery from crippling storms like Hurricane Sandy.

Mr. Halatyn was ready for — maybe not the worst, but a city-crippling storm, a storm as devastating as last week's blizzard.

City Council members will pepper Bloomberg administration officials over the city's sluggish response to last month's crippling snow storm.

On the roof of Hughes Spalding Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, on a foggy day before a crippling ice storm, I photographed a fragment of a Keith Haring mural.

For China's leaders, the gold-medal haul is wonderful news after a grim few months that have seen crippling snow storms, upheaval in Tibet and a deadly earthquake.

COMING off a month of heavy snowfall and crippling ice storms, many homeowners from the Northwest to the Northeast may have one New Year's resolution in common: to update their arsenals of shovels, snow blowers and ice removers to keep their sidewalks, driveways and stairs clean and safe.

The unprecedented view, unveiled here last week at the European Space Agency ESAA) headquarters, could help scientists devise better defenses against crippling magnetic storms.

Puerto Rico, he noted, was already facing crippling debt before the storm.

However other studies following Hurricane Andrew did find significant increased risk of fetal distress, and the level of prenatal maternal stress during the crippling 1998 Quebec Ice storm was found to predict autistic traits in children 6 ½ years later, as reported by Walder et al., in 2014.