Sentence examples for crippling thing from inspiring English sources

At 22, being taken care of is a crippling thing.

In 2001, Modine contracted Lyme disease - "a very debilitating, crippling thing; you get memory loss, Bell's palsy, arthritis, vision problems" - from a tick.

"The fact is that when you're dealing with transnational criminal enterprises, one of the crippling things that you can do is seize their assets out from under them," said John Lovell, a lobbyist for the California Narcotic Officers AssociationNarcotic Officers Association

Don't worry, homeowners, say the rate-setters, crippling monthly payments are a thing of the past.

The blinkered process of selling a film that hasn't been universally praised is rather like creating a dating profile that understandably focuses on the expansive travelling and love of animals over the crippling loneliness and weird sex thing.

It's the weakness/failure thing that's crippling to us.

By his own account, he is a man apparently troubled by many things, but a crippling sense of modesty has never been among them.

It's absolutely the right thing to do to have crippling sanctions.

Take comfort in knowing that the only thing standing between you and crippling identity theft is a child who thinks it's "totes hilarious" to fart into Tupperware containers and leave them in the refrigerator.

Let's flush the pills, stock up on recreational drugs, drive fast cars, work long hours and stay inspired by nature's crippling deadline to achieve greater and greater things in our fourscore years and ten.

I have made the case before that laboring under this crippling fiction, the potential good that all things "public health" might do is much forestalled.