Sentence examples for crippling threat from inspiring English sources

Fifa's announcement comes just a week after Jacques Rogge, the president of IOC, identified match-fixing as a "potentially crippling" threat to the future integrity of all sport.

Fiscal conditions are slowly improving for American cities, aided by increases in sales tax and income tax revenue, but rapidly rising pension and health costs for city workers continue to pose a potentially crippling threat, according to an annual study released Thursday by the National League of Cities.

A statewide employee-benefits program that has enabled hundreds of local governments and school districts in New Jersey to save tens of millions of dollars on health insurance has averted a potentially crippling legislative threat.

The problem is security: Opening millions of connections in this hybrid environment leaves the corporate firewall looking like Swiss cheese, dotted by open incoming ports that expose the enterprise to crippling security threats.

It's a rather dense clause, but in explaining it, White House officials drew a distinction between non-nuclear threats that they view as only "crippling" and potential threats that might be "devastating".

They had experienced layer upon layer of trauma: entrenched community violence, ruptured attachment with primary caregivers who had left for the U.S. years earlier, crippling poverty, gang threats.

This would lift the threat of crippling trade embargos, and the threat of invasion.

Without the threat of crippling addiction, maybe drug use could increase, not decrease, because they're "not so dangerous" now.

The courts are being packed with government loyalists, and media is scrutinized for "balance," with the threat of crippling fines for those deemed to have strayed.

But they will still be short of the 60-vote majority that would enable them to ward off the threat of crippling Democratic filibusters.

British Airways urged passengers today to make Christmas bookings despite the growing threat of crippling strikes next month as it plunged to a record pre-tax loss of £292m during its most profitable trading period.