(1) It proved surprisingly easy to cripple vital services to households and businesses, and to disable or disrupt major public utilities.

(2) We may be young and fairly likely to stay healthy, but one poorly timed illness or accident can cripple us financially before we've had the chance to establish ourselves.

(3) An emotional cripple

(4) In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye.

(5) Only four or five compromised client machines can cripple a server; in this way it's a fiendishly economical attack.

(6) However, it was modified to accept an electron bolt gun, giving it the ability to disable (/ cripple / damage) much larger ships.

(7) We must cripple the American war machine and lend all possible material support to those suffering its wrath.

(8) A blockade would cripple Taiwan economically without damaging its infrastructure.

(9) Business and consumer confidence is fragile, and there are fears that high debts could cripple future spending.

(10) Now British players are calling for government intervention, warning that the foreign invasion could cripple the development of the game, despite a sharp rise in popularity in recent years.

(11) They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it.

(12) With 24 actual plies, it can withstand severe cuts that would cripple a tire with just 12 actual plies.

(13) And the arthritis isn't the typical osteoarthritis that strikes so many older people or the less-common rheumatoid arthritis that can cripple victims as young as six months.

(14) The first part of their plan was to disable all orbital satellites around the earth, to cripple the technology of advanced secular nations.

(15) Did the sudden motion cripple its electrical systems?

(16) Finally, we should spread our eggs over many baskets, so that no single breakdown cripples our electricity grid.

(17) A young man crippled by a disease of old age may not get the operation he and his family have been hoping and praying for over the last year.

(18) But he refuses to allow his children to be immunised against the disease that crippled him three decades ago.

(19) A rude person with a fate of becoming disabled will eventually be crippled , but because of his/her personality not many people will care.

(20) Her son was crippled after a road accident when he was five.