A last year between the union and the government over a separate fleet of Korean-built intercity trains crippled the rail network.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/secret-report-reveals-1-billion-plus-cost-blowout-in-bungled-nsw-trains-project-20230203-p5chpo.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national

Among the parts of the economy hurt by the strikes include pubs and restaurants, which had already been crippled by draconian and damaging restrictions imposed during the Covid pandemic.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12796389/December-strike-misery-looms-Rail-workers-walk-week-800million-blow-pubs-bars-restaurants-Christmas.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

And it has been crippled since the halcyon days of the free internet that was cut off after Trump’s election in 2016 by the Empire Striking Back—in the form of shadow-banning, deplatforming by, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, and demonetization by, e.g., Amazon.

Source: https://vdare.com/articles/vdare-com-lawfare-crisis-intensifies-federal-court-judge-frederick-j-scullin-dodges-protecting-our-and-our-writers-1a-rights-from-hyperpoliticized-nyag-letitia-james

Back in 2022, homebuyers in about half of the country’s 100 largest cities were crippled by losses of more than $100,000 in buying power compared with a year prior.

Source: https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/mortgage-rates-now-cost-homebuyers-a-whole-bedroom-worth-of-space/

But it would take so long that I'd get out of the bath half crippled.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12671569/Dutch-children-locked-cultist-father-Ruinerwold-Farm-abused-decade.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Commenting on the film, Phoebe Dynevor said: “This film really explores how women can feel very crippled and isolated by their success and how they have to ultimately suppress a lot of their strengths to avoid the rage of a really insecure man."

Source: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/celebs-tv/new-steamy-netflix-thriller-fair-8818922

Dozens of people anxiously wait to withdraw money from cash dispensers that is crippled by cash shortages at a bank in Kano, northwest Nigeria, on February 8, 2023.

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/02/10/uncertainty-as-cash-fuel-shortages-bite-ahead-of-elections/

Facing determined resistance and crippled by their own incompetence, they soon abandoned their ambitious plans.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katyasoldak/2023/01/04/wednesday-january-4-russias-war-on-ukraine-daily-news-and-information-from-ukraine/

'In a city that is crippled by a housing affordability and availability crisis, it's a very insular thing to suggest the cultural value of this architecturally mundane structure is greater than the material value of more housing.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11703799/Mosman-Sydney-locals-fight-against-developer-application-demolition-1906-Raglan-St-home.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

INTENSE FIGHTING IS raging around Gaza’s biggest hospital where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions, as Israel pledged to help evacuate babies from the crippled facility.

Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hospital-6220799-Nov2023/

I think it’s one of those games where we’ve been crippled with injuries the last couple of weeks and we kind of had to put square pegs in round holes today.

Source: https://www.northernirelandworld.com/sport/football/honours-even-for-east-antrim-irish-premiership-sides-4271303

Japan’s prime minister ate what he called “safe and delicious” fish from Fukushima on Wednesday, days after wastewater was released from the area’s crippled nuclear plant into the Pacific.

Source: https://guardian.ng/news/japan-pm-eats-safe-and-delicious-fukushima-fish/

Jubilant lawmakers in Lusaka sang Zambia’s national anthem on Friday after foreign lenders agreed to restructure part of the country’s debt, a move that entrepreneurs said brought hope for the crippled economy.

Source: https://nehandaradio.com/2023/06/23/cheers-in-zambia-after-landmark-6-3-billion-debt-restructuring-deal/

PornHub legend Mia Khalifa revealed she'd be left "emotionally crippled" this weekend as two conflicting dates in her diary threaten to leave her "drowning in nihilism"

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/marcus-rashford-manchester-united-car-30481508

The 2023 growth projection was premised on strong agricultural output and the belief that foreign exchange supply—which crippled the economy in 2022—would improve this year.

Source: https://mwnation.com/beware-the-marching-ides-of-stagflation-2/

The absolutist policy crippled the economy and triggered social unrest before it was abruptly abandoned in December.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1744716/China-lockdown-XI-an-COVID-zero-flu-common-influenza

The deafening silence by the regulator and operators of the banking system over a failed currency redesign project and an over-stretched mobile banking network has crippled the economy.

Source: https://www.blueprint.ng/when-supreme-court-becomes-banks-regulator/

The earthquakes and aftershocks crippled critical roads and infrastructure, warehouses, and coordination systems needed to organize deliveries of aid through the only Security Council-approved UN aid corridor from Turkey into the affected areas.

Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/15/northwest-syria-aid-delays-deadly-quake-survivors

The payments crippled the Haitian economy and set the tone for the continuous exploitation of the island.

Source: https://seattlemedium.com/haitian-awareness-is-the-spirit-of-rebellion/

Think of it like when dropped 38 points in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals while crippled by food poisoning.

Source: https://collider.com/val-kilmer-tombstone/