Sentence examples for crippling tragedy from inspiring English sources

The candor with which Schultz speaks of a crippling tragedy, or the possibility of a fresh one, is startling.

It requires patience: the privilege of those who are not personally touched by the crippling effects of tragedy.

I Dreamed of Africa is punctuated by terrible tragedies - crippling car accidents, the death of friends and friends' children.

They gave the world a front row seat as refugees risked life and limb facing beatings, persecution, unimaginable tragedy, racism, and the crippling bureaucracy of the world's humanitarian resettlement program all in desperate search for somewhere safe.

Informing his situation and crippling his will is the trauma of a tragedy he suffered a few years before.

That is not just because it is a human tragedy, but also because it is crippling national economies and jeopardising development more broadly.In this section Bang and blame Quoth the raven Battle ready Crash-test dummies ReprintsThis political will has translated into more money for the fight against AIDS.

His tragedy, and ours, was that his crippling inner wounds outstripped his proven strengths.

The movie prefers the hero moniker, presenting this '90s story as a rise-and-fall tragedy in which Napster — had it not been hampered by crippling lawsuits stemming from the recording industry's siege mentality about its business — could have become iTunes before iTunes.

In doing so, in crippling the discussion before it can begin, we truly harm those who have suffered tragedies, and those who will suffer tragedies again in the future.

"Every new case of polio is a personal tragedy, and every new case is a setback in our global fight to defeat this crippling, deadly disease," said Mr. Lake.

The great tragedy is that after producing five novels in five wonderfully productive years between 1929 and 1934 he suffered crippling writer's block.