Pinch hitters have almost all of their chances against fireballing, late-inning relief pitchers capable of breaking bats and crippling wills. |
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I can sit here today and testify to you that bitterness is a destructive, crippling force. |
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My crippling gynecophobia will prevent me from being anywhere around women again. |
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The assessable family income might barely put them out of the running for a medical card and medical expenses can be crippling. |
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It is also of course a very eighties song, a very eighties thing, with its chest-beating passion and crippling lovelessness. |
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The most crippling injuries were to Simon's right leg, mangled beyond recognition below the knee, the entire calf musculature torn off. |
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The court heard the crime was born out of desperation over crippling financial pressure. |
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Now, the inland city's water supplies are all but depleted as Australia's crippling drought parches farm and playing field alike. |
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A mere eight years ago, France was brought to its knees by crippling strikes when the government tried to force through pension reforms. |
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Intelligent gearing, with sixth proving something of an economy gear, even means the fuel consumption isn't too crippling on a long run. |
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John has attached old pram wheels to a wooden box so he can move easily among the raspberry canes without crippling his knees. |
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It is, after all, free information usable for blackmail, theft or provoking a crippling system breakdown. |
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Faced with decisive turning points, where clarity is vital, this could be a crippling weakness. |
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I keep waiting for him to warn me off, to use his own crippling accident and this video to scare me straight. |
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They were perfectly aimed, blowing his arms out of their sockets and probably crippling him for life. |
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One such issue is the crippling and dangerous state of unemployment amongst young people. |
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Angry pensioners have banded together to protest at crippling council tax levels leaving them on the poverty line. |
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She remains unswerving in hope while enduring monstrous headaches and crippling depression. |
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The conductors are furious at huge rises given to train drivers in a bid to solve a crippling shortage. |
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He had struggled so much they bound him hand and foot, crippling his efforts to escape. |
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Faced with the prospect of crippling student debts, many are opting to skip university and get on the career ladder. |
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It's time to put a stop to these unfair and fraudulent practices which are crippling British farmers. |
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The radiation that stunted the growth of her tumor is now crippling her mind. |
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But I know a number of stutterers now who I feel very sorry for, because I can see how inhibiting it is for them, and how crippling. |
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Thereby whole generations live under the shadow of crippling debts that require extraordinary and sustained levels of economic growth to offset. |
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Progressive symptoms, crippling claudication and limb ischemia warrant more aggressive interventions. |
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At the Battle of Gettysburg he was severely wounded, permanently crippling his left arm. |
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It is hard to imagine the horrors of war, crippling poverty or injustice where we live. |
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But the Wistow pitman says no amount of money can compensate for a crippling hand condition that could leave him on the unemployment scrap heap. |
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China could always recall its debts, crippling the US and plunging the entire world into a black depression. |
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The runner suffers severe muscle pain and cramp as well as crippling abdominal discomfort. |
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Rising to leave, he winced as his legs cramped, almost crippling him with their intense pain. |
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The aim is to damage an adversary's capacity to attack by crippling its advancing armed forces. |
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In the meantime, a missile salvo from Comet struck the already damaged Claymore, crippling the ship. |
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Clearly, clamping locks on electronic equipment and intentionally crippling CDs wouldn't increase sales. |
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The parade organisers would have gone bankrupt on account of the crippling public liability insurance. |
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Each time he would promise to kick his crippling addictions to heroin and alcohol, but would lapse again almost immediately. |
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Lumbered with crippling debt, many farmers left the land, paving the way for the corporatization of agriculture. |
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In 1977 my affliction was formally labeled a form of juvenile rheumatoid crippling arthritis. |
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He was apparently the only reporter in the city when U.S. forces were enforcing a crippling siege. |
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The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof. |
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This autumn's crippling congestion on the dual carriageway and across the city centre has largely been caused by the single-lane contraflow bottleneck at Copmanthorpe. |
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It's like paying off the mortgage on your house or choosing to lease a new car over three years instead of keeping your old banger with its crippling repair bills. |
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After so many seasons of crippling stilettos, the flattie fights back. |
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And then there was the crippling nerves that it would not be good, especially given the recent spate of really bad TV biopics. |
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This lifestyle began to go badly wrong from the age of forty-four, when his horse rolled on him in a tournament, crippling one leg and leaving him a chronic invalid. |
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There was little actual shot damage, but there were crippling collisions. |
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The crippling ailment of a good portion of the 50 or so musketeer flicks out there is that there's only so much you can do with cavaliers and carriages. |
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In return, Cuban rhetoric wholeheartedly blamed the United States for crippling their economy. |
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His profound and crippling melancholy, which cast a poetic shadow and moved me almost as much as his accomplishments. |
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The reason for his crippling indecision is simple as it is maddening, especially if you happen to be married to him. |
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While our Prime Minister is gadding around the globe, the British railway system is near breakdown with 1970s-style strikes crippling many routes and disrupting commuters. |
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At this critical moment, this diffusion of attention is potentially crippling. |
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David delivers his one line with such crippling eeriness that then tied it all together. |
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In this case, a new and uncharacteristic American risk-aversion has been crippling. |
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The crippling yoke of oppression has been dropped on the American neck. |
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And with that great hope and excitement comes crippling, embarrassing disappointment. |
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With MTV no longer a major way to promote artists, and the Internet evincing a crippling deflation, the metaphoric sky had fallen. |
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Biological containment involves crippling the plasmid vector and its bacterial host so that they will not be able to survive outside the laboratory. |
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The worst cases can lead to agoraphobia or other crippling effects and are very sad because the anxieties and fears which cause so much trouble are usually groundless. |
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But, according to the teaching unions, even this pales into insignificance beside the problems of dealing with increasingly unruly pupils and, above all, a crippling workload. |
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He was born with a crippling inherited disease, arthritic haemophilia. |
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Moreover, the crippling restrictions resulted in the North partially shutting down weapons programs for lack of funds. |
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He argued that the Articles of Confederation, which had loosely united the states since the end of the war, were crippling congressional efficiency and needed to be revamped. |
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Throughout his life, possibly because of crippling arthritis, his preferred medium was watercolour, painted in luminous washes within tight well-defined outlines. |
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On the front row only parents, no fashion media darlings gasping sycophantically, scribbling furiously before sharpening their talons and publishing crippling reviews. |
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They abuse drinks or drugs, abuse spouses and loved ones, shirk sleep and plummet into crippling depression. |
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Smilodon fossils from the La Brea tar pits include bones that show evidence of serious crushing or fracture injuries, or crippling arthritis and other degenerative diseases. |
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Since then he has had regular checkups and his owners feed him codliver oil to help stave off crippling arthritis. |
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The invasion plan received a crippling blow in November 1759, when the French Brest Squadron was heavily defeated at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. |
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The event closed the Anza Trail, crippling the overland population growth of the colony. |
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Drought gripped the drylands of West Africa, crippling peoples' seminomadic livelihoods of millet farming and goat herding. |
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Elijah Price was born with a brittle bone disease that makes any blow or fall a painful, crippling experience. |
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French involvement had proven decisive, but France made few gains and incurred crippling debts. |
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Over the years, I've made no secret of the fact that I suffer from the crippling modern-day ailment of cyberchondria. |
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Debeaked and detoed without any pain relief, these birds are bred to reach a crippling weight at an unnaturally fast rate. |
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The condition, known as PANK 2, or Hallervorden-Spatz disease, is progressive and crippling. |
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Jazmine was first diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma after months of suffering crippling leg pains and developing a limp. |
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I feel a fundamental crippling incuriousness about our officers, too much body and too little head. |
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Since fluorides accumulate in a linear fashion, the crippling dosage of 10 mg per day for 10 years is the same as 5 mg per day for 20 years, and so on. |
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Epiphysitis, a pathological transformation of cartilage into bone, is a painful, crippling condition caused by a skewed calcium-to-phosphorus ratio. |
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Amber Sisson from Nottingham suffers from a rare genetic disorder, known as PANK 2, or Hallervorden-Spatz disease, that is progressive and crippling. |
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Grewal said that unlike Sudden Death disease that kills the mango plant in short time, Dieback slowly leads plants to death while crippling its fruit bearing capability. |
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Of course, most Americans aren't particularly good at saving, which is why the risk of life-threatening or crippling fractures from osteoporosis remain such a concern. |
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When singer and Loose Women star Jamelia, 34, experienced crippling stomach pains she found she had an umbilical hernia caused by her second pregnancy. |
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Those awful Oxford bags and crippling, clompy shoes were hideous. |
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Gadolinium use has been linked to onset of rare but often crippling nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, especially in patients with reduced kidney function. |
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Ironically, the BJP has followed a sequence where whenever they have the Congress on the ropes and ready to rain in crippling blows, they manage to commit seppuku. |
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Delirium was deeply entrenched in my bed as I warbled nonsense, desperately trying to ward off the evil spirits that had given me such a crippling dose of man flu. |
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Most of their efforts were centered around crippling Malaysia's economy and involved sabotage against trains, rubber trees, water pipes, and electric lines. |
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To maintain his campaigns against the Latins, Michael pulled troops from Asia Minor and levied crippling taxes on the peasantry, causing much resentment. |
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