The fear that World War I would incapacitate him as an artist -- hence, the severed hand -- prompted him to more or less incapacitate himself; he rendered himself unenlistable by his abuse of alcohol and drugs.
But he was shortly back in London for an operation on that ankle; it had been broken in 1909 but not set.On returning to his barracks, Mallory, who was riding a motorbike, hit a pillar at the entrance to his camp and crushed the same foot, incapacitating himself for the rest of the year.
But though he was physically on the mend by the start of this year, he found himself incapacitated.
Within weeks of an operation, his broken knee got infected and Young found himself incapacitated, swiftly losing confidence.
After William Shawn's death, Cecille stopped visiting the Delaware institution where Mary lives, and as time went on her younger son (Allen's elder brother is the playwright and actor Wallace Shawn) found himself incapacitated by fear at the prospect of doing so.
Vikram Amar, dean and Iwan Foundation professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law, discussed a largely fantastical scenario in which Trump could remain at the top of the ticket but pledge to declare himself incapacitated and allow Pence to take over as president if their ticket prevails.
The Iraqi authorities continue to insist that Baghdadi himself was incapacitated and had handed operational control to Afari after being badly wounded in an earlier strike - something the Pentagon has denied.
All of this makes it even stranger that a man known as a light drinker should have allowed himself to be incapacitated by alcohol.
The drugs, combined with a heart condition, led to a cardiac arrhythmia, and King was "thus incapacitated, was unable to save himself and drowned," according to the report.
Chemical warfare first emerged on the Western Front during the German offensive, and Smith himself would be temporarily incapacitated by gas.
Eisenhower proposed that Nixon, as Vice-President, could make the call that the President was incapacitated, while Eisenhower retained the power to declare himself recovered.
