A major stumbling block preventing this from occurring is the crippling debt these developing countries will subsequently owe.
All she had to do was find a way to prevent them from crippling her logic for now.
At Berlin powerful influences, notably that of Herr von Holsteinthat mysterious omnipotence behind the throne were working for this end; the crippling of Russia seemed too favorable an opportunity to be neglected for crushing the menace cf French armaments.
Both of these conditions can be quite painful and crippling.
But the scattered heterogeneity of his possessions, the frequent crippling of his authority by national privileges or by political discords and religious quarrels, his perpetual straits for money, and his cautious calculating character, almost outweighed the advantages which he possessed in the terrible Spanish infantry, the wealthy commerce of the Netherlands, and the inexhaustible mines of the New World.
But years of crippling drought, poor wheat yields and a lack of equipment, meant that their incomes were going down and down.
Children are the most susceptible to the crippling effects of lead poisoning because their nervous systems and brains are still forming.
Countries agree to grow cash crops in order to pay off their crippling debts.
Crippling pain began to take over her mind and body.
Despite the crippling nature of the symptoms, many successful doctors, lawyers, business people, performers, and entertainers function well in society despite their condition.
Electrolysis uses a needle and an electrical impulse to direct electricity into the hair follicle, thus crippling the follicle for further reproduction.
From occasional sad days to a crippling sense of hopelessness, it is a mental illness with complicated roots.
He closed his eyes to the darkness, struggling against his crippling terror.
Her hunger became crippling.
However, the only prospective clinical study shows no increased risk of crippling pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis and emphysema ).
If his touch was hard to resist last night, it was crippling today.
If so, he might have the key to crippling the cancer afflicting his operations.
If you often find yourself in the middle of an anxiety attack, you know just how crippling, and life altering it can be.
In the ensuing chaos, Yersin received a saber slash to his right hand and a crippling blow from a rifle butt.
Lord Lister's discoveries brought these new methods to bear with a certainty and a celerity previously undreamed of; and many visceral maladies, such as visceral ulcers, disease of the pancreas, stone of the kidney or gall-bladder, perityphlitis, ovarian dropsy, which in the earlier part of the 19th century were either fatal or crippling, are now taken promptly and safely in hand, and dealt with successfully.
Mack's march to Ulm was therefore a necessity of the situation, and his continuance in this exposed position, if foolhardy against such an adversary, was at any rate the outcome of the high resolve that even if beaten he would inflict crippling losses upon the enemy.
Many of the crippling and fatal diseases globally are threatening to overwhelm third world countries.
Many opponents of declawing equate this procedure with crippling an animal.
Memories bombarded him, almost crippling him.
More importantly, they never experienced crippling joint or back pains.
Only when the threat of war and crippling sanctions are removed will a genuinely progressive mass opposition to Saddam be likely.
She doubled over, pain from Czerno's attacks crippling her.
She held her breath, the pain in her arm crippling.
That's right, get to the finish line first, but also gain some boost by crippling your opponents.
The Dutch criticism on him has been that he might have done more to reform the clumsiness of their constitutional procedure, and thus given them some return for the crippling expenses of the war.
The effects of this legal quagmire on capitalism are crippling.
The human emotions were crippling the cold logic that brought her to this point.
The pain in her stomach was almost crippling.
The scent of blood was crippling.
Throwing off the shackles of religion had n't removed the crippling chains of shyness.
Unfortunately sagging ratings and a crippling economy finally took its toll on the grand dame of soap operas.
When his eldest brother died, he'd felt pain and anger, but he'd never felt the crippling ache he did standing on the rocks near the ocean staring at Katie.
Young children often have a fear of strangers that is quite normal; social phobia is not usually diagnosed until a child reaches adolescence and has crippling fears that interfere with normal function.