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It has hobbled the work of prosecutors by requiring them to disprove a shooter's claim of self-defense when a slain victim cannot contradict that claim.

China is desperate to become a player in global information culture, but it has hobbled itself with the government's argument that the Internet is a patchwork of national values, rather than a shared global ethos.

That has made the authority one of the largest debtors in the country — it owes nearly $27 billion — and has hobbled it with fast-growing interest payments.

In some ways Britain is a strange place to seek inspiration: the British scheme is hopelessly behind schedule, a victim of the kind of IT snafu that has hobbled the Affordable Care Act.

Most of Time Warner Cable's systems have refused to carry it, a fact that has hobbled CNNfn executives as they tried to persuade unaffiliated cable companies to carry it.

The S.E.C.'s rudimentary technology has hobbled its ability to untangle these events and police the automated trading firms.

It eventually cost her the premiership and has hobbled her party ever since.

Diplomats said it could further widen the breach that has hobbled peace talks between Israel and Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon and the patron, along with Iran, of Hezbollah.

Most of its board members are former government officials.Shoddy management has hobbled the company from the start.

as its first order of business, dispensing with the messy political infighting that has hobbled Republicans in the past.

A similar pattern of belligerence has hobbled Trump's presidency.