The music business is now facing a new challenge that further threatens the financial stability of an already hobbled industry.
For instance, one may regard a set of proposed regulations as foolish and likely to hobble the industry regulated, but perhaps desirable if one believes that we would be better off without that industry.
Tiny, often part-time farmers, with few economies of scale, antiquated methods and old equipment hobble the industry.
The for-profit educational lobby argues that, in fact, the criteria are too stiff and would hobble the industry because so many of its students depend on loans to attend.
At the time, these standards failed to enthuse some on the environmentalist left, who want regulations that crack down so hard as to hobble the industry or effectively ban fracking.
That doesn't sound like much, but given the large number of songs that they stream, Web music companies say the cost could be enough to hobble their industry.
Japan's economy is likely to suffer, at least in the short term, as power disruptions hobble its industries.
Tillman is concerned that Washington may be hobbling its industry by involving the state in a heavily tiered system in which growers and processors cannot also be retailers.
Dealmaking accelerated at the beginning of 2018, after a 2019 defense budget facilitated a healthy jump in spending and Congress lifted the "sequestration" caps that have hobbled the industry since 2013.
While they concede that stricter rules will make things harder for fishermen, they also say that without them the fish would be depleted to the point of hobbling the industry.
