The trustees' approach toward the looming disaster reflects deep-rooted problems at the authority that have hobbled its response, causing hardship for hundreds of thousands of its customers, according to an examination of its performance by The New York Times.
With the response hobbled by a fractious European Union, many economists now expect the downturn to last longer here than across the Atlantic.
Republicans felt that John Major was hobbled in his response to the IRA ceasefire in 1994 as he became increasingly dependent on the Ulster Unionist party, at that time Northern Ireland's largest, for support.
Most tellingly, perhaps, it also represents a pragmatic response to a hobbled economy.
The "lesson of Somalia" later hobbled the international community's response to genocide in Rwanda and it continues to resonate in Sierra Leone.
There's very little growth in the demand for electricity, thanks to energy efficiency, demand response, and a hobbled economy.
In politics, when a public policy increases inequality, expands rights and power for global companies, makes workers more precarious, hobbles our response to climate change, and deindustrializes Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, we call that a bad policy.
Aid has been slow to arrive and the response — despite valiant relief efforts — has been hobbled by poor coordination and overconcentration in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The administration's response was "heroic," Mr. Travis said, but hobbled by understaffing in the Police Department — about 26,000 officers at the time — as a result of the layoffs demanded by the 1970s fiscal crisis.
Ballmer sees a competitive landscape where Microsoft is surrounded by competing operating systems and browsers (which are also operating systems) and hobbled by a consent decree that limits their competitive response.
