Sentence examples for potentially crippling effect from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kartagener said the count, in effect, suggested that it was illegal for a police officer to miss his target while shooting, an argument that would have "a potentially crippling effect on law enforcement".

In the rare instance where additional investment in a particular area is made, such expansion is only achievable at a very real and potentially crippling effect on other departments, as was recently the case in the Province of Alberta.

The VICE story does not mention that Johns Hopkins University as an institution has launched a Lyme Disease Center founded by JHU doctor John Aucott, who "has spent more than a decade studying the disease's potentially crippling effects".

In a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Michael Troncoso, senior counsel for the California attorney general's office, warned the panel that the measure would have "potentially crippling effects" on California's ability to enforce some of its landmark consumer protection laws and "strip away in a significant way the state's ability to regulate toxics".

On one hand, they described an aversion to drugs because of the anticipated side effects and, on the other hand, they felt compelled to take medication due to a fear of the potentially crippling effects of an uncontrolled disease.

Underlying these factors was the profound feeling of ambivalence that is marked, on one hand, by an aversion to medications because of the anticipated side effects, and on the other, by a fear of the potentially crippling effects of an uncontrolled disease.

I was reminded of fear's powerful potential and often realized crippling effect on how we live our lives.

Cancer leaves in its wake not only a host of physical side-effects, but also potentially crippling financial costs.

Potentially crippling cost increases could force the delay of "long overdue investments".

While osteoporosis may be a potentially crippling condition, it can be identified early during the course of the disease and effective therapy can be administered.

But it has a certain crippling effect.