Sentence examples for was being crippled from inspiring English sources

I don't advocate a marginal tax rate of 70 percent, but it's worth noting that we had rates in that range all through the 60s and much of the 70s, without much evidence that effort at top levels was being crippled.

Why did they never help the government when it was being crippled by yellow-shirt groups in Bangkok, they asked?

The Royal College of Nursing, which made Freedom of Information requests to 27 NHS trusts, said the NHS was being "crippled" by a shortage of nurses.

And the fact is that they are being crippled by them.

"It means dangerous ice labs are being destroyed, drugs are coming off the streets, and outlaw bikie gangs are being crippled," Wells said.

"A whole generation is being crippled with inordinate amounts of debt," said Jim Kline, a senior who is chairman of the Rutgers University Student Assembly.

Though the nuclear industry claims it is being crippled by overregulation, its powerful friends on Capitol Hill have threatened budget cuts to make the Nuclear Regulatory Commission compliant.

Chris Anderson, Wired magazine's editor in chief, says the Web is being crippled by a world of apps and screens in a cover story titled "The Web Is Dead.

It meant that prime ministerial austerities with the truth lacked sharp ripostes: no, £8bn doesn't begin to cover the NHS crisis; no, social housing is being crippled; and, no, there's no "parity" between mental and physical health.

The European Court of Human Rights regressed in its attitude towards balancing the rights of free speech and privacy, while in the UK newspapers argued they were being crippled by exponential libel costs and celebrities invoking privacy rights.

A blunt new report by Arab intellectuals commissioned by the United Nations warns that Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, the repression of women and an isolation from the world of ideas that stifles creativity.