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Senior American commanders in Iraq are publicly complaining that delays in delivering radios, body armor and other equipment have hobbled their ability to build an effective Iraqi security force that can ultimately replace United States troops here.

Bankers see the rules as hobbling their ability to provide financial products that drive innovation and growth.

The court determined that separate schools, even if they had similar resources, were "inherently" — by their nature — unequal, causing profound damage to the children who attended them and hobbling their ability to live as full citizens of their country.

And now, with the stringent program of pruning redundant workers from state enterprises and Government agencies, tens of millions of the baby boomers are being laid off from their jobs, hobbling their ability to build equity in the new pension plans and in some cases to provide for their elderly parents.

But while Obama took the opportunity to discuss youth empowerment and urged the 600 graduates to make this the "century where women shape... the destiny of this nation," he didn't touch on an issue that might hobble their ability to achieve that destiny: mounting student debt.

Proponents of the measure, meanwhile, collected most of their $12.5 million relatively late in the game, hobbling their advertising ability.

And, as Iger realized during the Carr case, both partners were hobbled in their ability to make accurate judgments.

If ISPs are hobbled in their ability to make the same kinds of uses of information that everyone else has always enjoyed that's one fewer new competitor to worry about.

But shortfalls in capacity hobble their efforts.

Students who do not match must hunt for unaccredited internships, positions that can hobble their careers.

Instead, he played games with U.N. weapons inspectors, hobbling their work at every turn.