Sentence examples for hobbled that from inspiring English sources

The economic troubles have hobbled that trade, in both directions.

We learned, for example, that the beef we have been eating (until the U.S.D.A.'s sudden change of heart about the practice) might consist in whole or part of meat from a "downer cow," an animal so sick and hobbled that it must be dragged to the slaughterhouse with chains or pushed by a front-end loader.

But it is the nostalgics themselves, pouring cold water on our modern achievements, who hobble that very necessary pride.

Now that Washington has a chance to fight back, the White House must not be allowed to hobble that effort.

But a slowdown in exports and industrial output, brought about by the global slowdown and a continued territorial spat with China, a major trading partner, is threatening to hobble that growth.

Its alarming that Blunt interprets this ambition as a plan to "hobble that success and 'level the playing field'" and diagnoses it as "narrow-minded, self-defeating, lead-us-to-a-dead-end, remove-the-'G'-from-'GB' thinking".

Grayson's side have shrugged off that disappointment this season, while Millwall lost in the final and have seemed hobbled by that failure.

Cameron certainly didn't want his premiership to be hobbled in that way.

OWS will be hobbled unless that kind of leadership emerges.

After hobbling that gauntlet, the young people too lost on their phones to give me a seat almost look cute.

His firm, Thomas Weisel Partners Group, was a dominant force in taking technology companies public during the dot-com boom and was hobbled when that bubble burst in 2000.