Sentence examples for fatal handicap from inspiring English sources
But this could become a fatal handicap against the Pacers, who score and defend better than the Celtics.
What helped win the election became a fatal handicap in office, as Tsipras resisted pressure even to make contingency plans for Grexit.
But Mr Negron faces what some Republicans, including the House majority leader, John Boehner, concede is a fatal handicap: Mr Foley's name, not his, will be on the ballot in November.
I thought he was harboring a fatal handicap; I thought surely I was halfway down the road to victory even before our tokens were banked and the puck had fallen out.
The former chief executive of eBay has by now spent about $120m of her own money on her campaign to become governor of California, and yet the latest polls have her trailing her Democratic rival, Jerry Brown, who says he has spent $11m.This is not to say that possession of a personal fortune is a fatal handicap in politics.
Being a billionaire in itself — Mr. Prokhorov owns 20 Jet Skis, a 200-foot yacht and a mansion outside Moscow — might seem a fatal handicap in an era of anger at the rich that is as prevalent in Russia as anywhere.
On the Swabian side, distrust between the knights and their foot soldiers, disagreements amongst the military leadership, and a general reluctance to fight a war that even the Swabian counts considered to be more in the interests of the powerful Habsburgs than in the interest of the Holy Roman Empire proved fatal handicaps.
As MTX doses increase, they impose a greater oxidant buffering handicap, proving fatal for both normal and abnormal cells.
It just wasn't the kind of acting that traditionally wins awards, inasmuch as it did not involve a foreign accent, physical handicap, drinking problem or fatal disease.
Class is not Curtis's handicap but his inspiration, and the fatal flaw in his films is not social complacency but metaphysical smugness.
Congenital malformations defined as: structural abnormalities detected prior to birth by ultrasound or at or soon after birth by clinical examination, X-ray, or ultrasound and, in the event of neonatal or perinatal death, by autopsy; and classified as major if fatal, potentially life threatening, likely to lead to serious handicap, or likely to lead to major cosmetic defect.
