But local government had been crippled.
He had been crippled by arthritis for years.
Later, during the Cultural Revolution, his father had been crippled after being beaten by Red Guards.
The bank had been crippled by property loans that went bad amid the financial crisis.
For months, the state had been crippled by a crisis of leadership.
A BROOKLYN CHILDHOOD piece tells about the little Gallagher girl who had been crippled by infantile paralysis.
Our largest single source of traffic, accounting for more than half of our monthly page views, had been crippled.
He didn't get it from his father, a slight, almost frail man, who had been crippled by childhood polio.
The baby was dead, however, and his mother had been crippled in the same hail of bullets.
Their old towns and cities had been crippled by the decline of heavy industry and corrupted by big business.
Alice was 42, and her life had been crippled by a series of mysterious ailments: nausea, vertigo, cramps, spasms, fainting spells, fleeting paralyses.
