96 collocations for cripples

It crippled the American resources for the war that ensued; made the eastern States hostile to Jefferson's, as well as his successor's administration, and tended to foster in the minds of the populace at large, an idea that we shrank from a contest with Great Britain in consequence of inherent weakness.

Thus the agitation, in one nation, for disarmament, unpreparedness and a patched up peace, while the other nations are armed and embittered, not only renders the situation of the one people critically perilous, but actually cripples its power to serve the cause of world peace and humanity.

Why should they be dependent on a country that crippled their commerce, that stifled their manufactures, that regulated their fisheries, that appointed their governors, and regarded them with selfish ends,as a people to be taxed in order that English merchants and manufacturers should be enriched?

"You cripple a man by giving him too wide a field of action.

The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers to Wood that it crippled the pitcher's hand and compelled him to cease playing.

It would wear out your youth in servile cares; it would cripple my energies; it might even, after a time, change our love to disgust and aversion.

Denmark is said to be impoverished by the disproportion of the learned to the industrial class; production is insufficient, and too much of a good thing cripples the country.

The Chinese are certainly adepts in the art of diminishing the size of, or rather crippling their trees, many of which very often scarcely attain a height of three feet.

It is a method which does render impossible nearly every way of forcing candidates upon constituencies, and nearly every trick for rigging results that now distorts and cripples the political life of the modern world.

There had been first her dowry; next her demands for the division of the property on their father's death; and the works had been saved only by means of a large pecuniary sacrifice which had long crippled their prosperity.

Governor Berkeley could not have chosen a more effective way of crippling the expedition.

And now it may be said that the desertions which had crippled Washington, the reluctance to enlist on the part of the farmers, and the tardy response to his calls for money, probably were owing to the general sense of security after the surrender of Burgoyne.

R59667, 20Mar50, Roy J. Snell (A) CRIPPLED HEARTS, a play in three acts by Margaret Mayo and Aubrey Kennedy.

The more frequently you can perform acts of benevolence and generosity without crippling your means too much, the better; and what would be ostentation and prodigality in another is becoming and necessary for those of our rank.

I can see that I committed one great mistakeI made all my improvements at once, laid out all my capital, and crippled my self.

But unhappily they carried the infection along with them, which desolated the fleet not less than the city, and crippled all its efforts.

There are iron mines at Arendal and elsewhere, but the rise in the cost of charcoal, due to the scarcity of wood, has greatly crippled the iron industry.

Adams, as minister to Paris, had perceived the selfish designs of the Count de Vergennes, and saw that his object in rendering aid to the new republic had been but to cripple England.

The contemptible "Peace Faction" continually crippled the administration all through the contest of nearly three years.

Sometimes I think he's a little off up here," and she touched her head as she said this, "and that perhaps he got hurt worse than he thinks, the time he met with the accident that crippled his arm.

It cripples individual development.

The Spanish had but one chance to cripple Dewey, and that was by closing with him, but they never seem, except in the case of the flagship, to have contemplated taking the offensive.

Indeed, Dade himself would not have ridden him in such a contest, because his anxiety lest Surry should be hurt would have crippled his own dexterity.

How shall this branch be held responsible, without crippling its efficiency?

But France hated England, and was jealous of her powers, and would do anything to cripple that traditionary enemy.

96 collocations for  cripples