The Helmand Province irrigation system, built by American engineers in the late 1950's, now lies crippled after years of neglect and Soviet sabotage.
It lay limp, crippled, its mesoglea torn, the bell deflated.
I would sleep for days and when I was awake I would spend hours lying there, crippled by fear, tormenting myself.
While the rest of the country lay in rubble – crippled by homelessness on a brutal scale, political unrest, cholera, chaos, crime, bad leadership, no leadership – the market slowly rose again from the ashes, just as it says on the tin.
The so-called victim, whose web of lies has crippled the Manhattan DA's case against the former International Monetary Fund boss, played host to a parade of paying male visitors in the weeks after Strauss-Kahn's arrest, a prosecution source said.
The ship, along with the destroyer, was crippled and lying directly in the path of the advancing German line.
Should I spend all afternoon lying in bed, telling myself I was crippled by my own procrastination?
When Washington froze Al Barakaat's assets, it crippled the company, forcing it to lay off 700 employees.
But Spacey has found a challenge in O'Neill, whose main object as a writer was to show that lies can not only cripple the psyche but also completely undo the transformative effect of love.
Famines lay waste to countries; bad diets cripple them silently.Governments often try to deal with the problems of nutrition in the same breath as the problems of starvation: by dishing out cheap food.
