Sentence examples for incapacitating from inspiring English sources

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.

Electrical wiring, oxygen systems and insulation blankets join batteries as dangerous sources of smoke or fire.The big danger is not just fire damaging the aircraft, but smoke incapacitating the crew on the flight deck.

Euthanasia, also called mercy killing, act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful and incurable disease or incapacitating physical disorder or allowing them to die by withholding treatment or withdrawing artificial life-support measures.

In 1857 Frederick William IV, crushed by memories of the mass insurrections and diplomatic defeats that he had been forced to endure, suffered a series of incapacitating strokes.

Migraine typically recurs over a period lasting 4 to 72 hours and is often incapacitating.

In about half the patients showing tertiary-stage symptoms, the disease is relatively benign, but in the rest it is incapacitating or fatal.

The symptoms of Sydenham chorea range in severity from mild to completely incapacitating.

The steamer Northcote, transformed into a gunboat, attempted to attack the village from the river, but the Métis lowered the ferry cable, incapacitating the boat.

The disease may be totally incapacitating to the sufferer in the advanced stages.

Dengue, also called breakbone fever or dandy fever, acute, infectious, mosquito-borne fever that is temporarily incapacitating but rarely fatal.

The Army wanted to know to what degree an "incapacitating agent" could incapacitate, and how its effects could be reversed.