Sentence examples for hobble the effort from inspiring English sources
The protests have put a damper on what was already a fading prospect.They may also hobble the effort to create a new democratic constitution, in place of the one written by the generals after the 1980 coup.
Countries like France, Germany, Italy and Spain place so many restrictions on their forces in Afghanistan that they are hobbling the effort.
But some European countries have placed so many restrictions on where and how their forces will operate — including barring deployments in the south — that they are hobbling the effort.
Every passing week of uncertainty, Mr. Spagnuolo said, hobbles the efforts to recruit people to come to Denver and speak their minds.
Critics say the delay in building a U.S.-backed Syrian opposition force, which Obama first announced last June, continues to hobble the broader effort.
On Friday, many of those critics said that although they were happy to see the case dropped, they would press forward with attempts to hobble the board, which oversees efforts by private sector employees to unionize and bargain collectively and seeks to ensure that neither unions nor employers violate the laws governing such activities.
The investigations are playing out as United States officials work to stanch the flow of money to Iran — part of an effort to hobble the nation's ability to develop its nuclear program.
Now that Washington has a chance to fight back, the White House must not be allowed to hobble that effort.
If Europeans spent more on their own defence, she added, their troops would be more useful when deployed with Americans.The Franco-American courtship leaves Britain looking oddly out of place, not least because it is hobbled by the effort to ratify the EU's Lisbon treaty.
Efforts to harry and hobble the President are another -- and they are unacceptable.
The resistance from Meadows and his allies threatens to hobble the entire effort Ryan cannot lose more than twenty-two House Republicans and still pass the bill.
