Sentence examples for handicap him from inspiring English sources

But might this handicap him when it comes to confronting secularism in the West?

Last week Mr Hausner resigned from the SLD, though not from the government, saying that he was tired of "existing political formations" and calling for the creation of a new "socio-liberal" party which was both pro-European and pro-market.But even if Mr Kwasniewski has many of the qualities needed for leading a new centre-left party, his communist past would handicap him.

In order for Judah to compete against Brett, the research team organizing the skirmish had to handicap him — giving Judah thick mittens and a blindfold to take his senses out of the equation.

His reserved manner handicapped him further.

Kim Jong-nam was born from a marriage his grandfather reportedly never approved, an issue that handicapped him when Kim Jong-il was considering which son he would designate as successor, analysts in Seoul said.

What handicapped him — and impelled the long, sometimes fabulous stylistic detour of Mannerism generally, from the work of the majestic Venetians Tintoretto and Veronese to that of the extravagant El Greco — was the aesthetic and metaphysical orthodoxy of the Renaissance: pictures were complete fictions, at once analogous to the existing world and superior to it.

He was not yet 40, but his handicap allowed him to stay.

But Wilson, who has died aged 37, from injuries received in an accident during a race in the US IndyCar series, never let this unavoidable handicap hold him back.

His own life story in overcoming a severe physical handicap insulated him (and thereby Mr Blair) against the inevitable charge from the left that cajoling recipients of incapacity benefit back into work was inhumane.

One handicap for him may be that he has such a good, clean method that batsmen pick up his deliveries more easily than those propelled with more complicated actions.

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.