(1) Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief for Tehran from crippling economic sanctions.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(3) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
(4) The former make a strongly positive net economic contribution and enable key industries to fill the skill shortages that if left unchecked can cripple growth.
(5) These protests appear to follow on from a crackdown in Ukraine's neighbour Russia over the screening of LGBT-themed films, which saw the Bok o Bok (Side by Side) event targeted by officials, before winning an appeal against a crippling fine .
(6) Netanyahu and his rightwing cabinet will wait for the "crippling" action against Tehran anticipated by secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
(7) The prompt recognition and management (Tables 8-1 and 8-2) of chemical burns of the upper extremity may prevent injury to the deep structures of the hand and may make the difference between satisfactory rehabilitation and crippling deformities.
(8) But senior officials at the European commission in Brussels disclosed that a compromise was in the air to save Greece and halt contagion by levying a tax on banks in the eurozone – opposed by Berlin and proposed by Paris – as well as a long-term Greek debt rollover stretching for decades, and other measures aimed at reducing Greece's crippling debt level.
(9) More than one million people in Britain may be suffering from constant, crippling headaches because they are taking too many painkillers, experts say.
(10) As yet no cure for this crippling complication is available.
(11) Eventually, when the truth did hit her, she said she felt crippled by guilt and contemplated suicide.
(12) But if it were to be economically crippled, “its participation in multinational missions under Nato’s aegis would be severely limited or withdrawn altogether”, said Thanos Dokos, the director general of Greece’s international relations thinktank, Eliamep .
(13) The disease was progressive, with crippling neuropathic deformities of the hands and feet.
(14) Since then support for the party has doubled amid a crippling austerity regime and rising unemployment rates, which have seen a third of Greeks fall below the poverty line.
(15) Failure to diagnose properly may result in extensive pulmonary fibrosis or bronchiectasis and condemn the patient to a lifetime as a pulmonary cripple.
(16) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
(17) Crop-producing areas have been inundated, dealing a crippling blow to the agriculture-based economy and threatening a food crisis.
(18) After the first year postgrafting, the various components of the immune systems of most healthy marrow recipients begin to work synchronously, whereas the immune systems of recipients with chronic graft-v-host disease (GVHD) remain crippled.
(19) Although it is "financially crippling", Charlotte Tagney is paying around £200 a month on top of independent school fees for her son James to attend the 11 Plus Academy and see a private tutor once a week to boost his chances of getting into grammar school in Maidstone.
(20) Based on a sense of joint responsibility, the German Society for Cripple Care (today: German Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled) was founded already in 1909, which, in the 80 years of its existence, has both considerably influenced pertinent legislation and herself been influenced in terms of constitution, membership and issues dealt with by the broadening of the rehabilitation philosophy.
Hamstrung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Hamstring
Example Sentences:
(1) Negredo missed a great chance to make it six and impress in the absence of the hamstrung Sergio Agüero and under-the-weather Edin Dzeko, but played a pivotal part in turning the game by winning a soft penalty following a slight touch from Amorebieta.
(2) He has plans to change the way social workers are trained (they are too hamstrung by "dogma", too reluctant to take at-risk kids into care).
(3) "During one of the worst housing crises this country has faced, with demand at sky-high levels, councils are being hamstrung," said Mike Jones, chairman of the Local Government Association's (LGA) environment and housing board.
(4) The Brazilian did not appear hamstrung as he samba-ed his way through the post‑match celebrations, the players only returning to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the city centre just before 3am with the raucous party prolonged thereafter.
(5) As a film-maker, of course, Cox is rather hamstrung by the fact that his first two films - Repo Man and Sid & Nancy - remain his most successful and most enduring.
(6) The EU, hamstrung by its own existential woes, has cooled on expansion into the western Balkans.
(7) In February, hamstrung by protests, congress abandoned the so-called Road Map, a constitutional declaration devised two years ago that gave it the job of supervising Libya's constitution.
(8) Meanwhile, lawyers say the prosecution has partly been hamstrung by an obstreperous police force that would prefer to drag its feet than help incriminate its own leaders.
(9) "And I think he needs to have a little think about things… He's a BBC employee as well, so I'm a bit hamstrung on anything I can say.
(10) King's version of events – that the Bank was hamstrung by inadequate powers – has prevailed but some decisions could surely have been made differently.
(11) Andrew Carmichael Preston, Lancashire • Your report about the ongoing problems with levels of care at Tameside Hospital, Manchester ( Report , 3 July), describes it as being hamstrung by a shortage of both doctors, especially consultants, and nurses in key departments.
(12) On the international negotiating front, however, the Obama administration may be hamstrung by sluggish Senate progress on passing climate legislation.
(13) The question is whether the Bank of England will respond by pumping more money into the economy under its quantitative easing (QE) programme, but it is hamstrung by high inflation.
(14) An employer of 140,000 people, it is one of the mainstays of the Brazilian economy, but its ability to do business has been hamstrung by allegations of corruption, the jailing of its chief executive, Marcelo Odebrecht , and a freeze on new contracts from Petrobras and the government.
(15) He blasts 156 dingers in three seasons in Dallas, although the Rangers suck and are financially hamstrung because of the deal.
(16) Parallel negotiations between the US and Europe, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are suddenly even more behind: hamstrung by similar opposition as well as complications created by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
(17) In such talks, the White House would be hamstrung by the fact that most US sanctions are in the gift of Congress over which President Obama has limited sway.
(18) He is currently out injured, along with the hamstrung Dwight Gayle, while Marouane Chamakh lasted only 45 minutes against Swansea.
(19) He said that the BBC Trust, the corporation's governance and regulatory body, is an expensive, lumbering entity that has found itself hamstrung by the impossible dual role of attempting to regulate and champion the corporation.
(20) The problem right now is they’re hamstrung.” Thompson also released a letter in which the original sponsor of the amendment – Republican Jay Dickey, a former House member – said it was time to reinstate funding for gun violence research.