Sentence examples for handicapped by a certain from inspiring English sources

And Tony Blair, for all his huge first parliamentary majority, was always handicapped by a certain lightness of manner entirely consonant with the verbal slipperiness that later defined him.

Still, throughout his political career he was handicapped by a certain personal reserve and austerity and coolness of manner that prevented him from appealing to the imaginations and affections of the people.

The doctor was handicapped by a lack of small talk.

The report states that the Soviet withdrawal plan was handicapped by a publicly announced timetable.

She was severly handicapped by a respiratory collapse following a fall at home.

It is a beguiling book, superbly illustrated but handicapped by a shortage of first-rate sources.

As in Paris, the official right-wing candidate there was handicapped by a rival.

In the past, Mr. Chang said China was handicapped by a lack of infrastructure.

The project was also handicapped by a seeming indifference to strict cost controls.

This hypothesis relies on Zahavi's handicap theory, which proposes that individuals that express male epigamic traits are handicapped by a reduced immune response (Zahavi 1975).

Oat research is also handicapped by a lack of DNA sequence information.