Sentence examples for great handicap from inspiring English sources

"Can you believe that Tom Cruise was nominated?" Like he had to overcome a great handicap.

It hardly seems fair that Uruguay should have to tolerate a great handicap in tomorrow's semi-final.

Expurgation is a great handicap to many playwrights, and the radio audience is the finicky and sensitive in the world.

Apparently out of boredom, he added a prize of his own, the Brett Award, "to the student who has worked hardest under a great handicap — Jake Barnes".

"My great handicap, I find, in dealing with all this is my lack of grounding in German philosophy," he confessed to his old Princeton teacher Christian Gauss in 1937.

It is a lamentable fact that he never completed his autobiography, to be titled How Many Of You Are There In The Quartet? Joe Morello was a complete master of the time signature games  and was one of the most gifted small group drummers of the time, thoughlosing his sight was a great handicap to him.

Malaysia may be a democracy in broad outline, and opposition parties do win seats in parliament, but only against great handicaps.

People who overcome great handicaps, who refuse to allow the world to tell them something is impossible, are courageous, like Jim Abbott, the one-handed pitcher of the Yankees.

The Pulitzer Prize Board stated: "They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements". After a brief stint as an anchor and news director at KPTV Oregon Television, in 1963, Lambert joined Life magazine as a staff reporter.

"One of the great handicaps of the moment is that the people whose job it was to put this right at the centre, were all made redundant about three years ago".

UMNO itself, having led the country's development for decades, has become perhaps its greatest handicap.