The study of finance is subsumed under economics as financial economics, but the scope, speed, power relations and practices of the financial system can uplift or cripple whole economies and the well-being of households, businesses and governing bodies within them — sometimes in a single day.

It is nearly weightless, though this has caused improvements to the game's physics modelling to cripple adamantine warhammers and other blunt weaponry.

A big weakness of this system is that a failed drive belt would cripple the car.

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare ( ASW ) weapon intended to destroy or cripple a target submarine by the shock of exploding near it.

Read more broadly, Klein suggests, but does not state, that Congress may not use the Exceptions Clause to cripple the Court's ability to be the final arbiter of what the Constitution means ; this conclusion is strengthened by the Court's holdings in City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U. S. 507, and especially Dickerson v. United States, 530 U. S. 428.

Lamed by her abusive Italian husband, she is a cripple who needs to be carried around the house on a sofa, although it does not stop her constantly flirting with all men.

He is reported to have become a cripple as a result of poor nourishment.

General Millán-Astray is a cripple.

He is war cripple.

For Forester, the tale of Herbert Curzon's almost inevitable rise to high command, the senseless slaughters he directs and his eventual retirement to the life of an aged cripple in a wheelchair, is not about Curzon — it is about the attitudes and mores of the British Army and of British society more generally, the attitudes that ( in Forester's view ) led to the appalling casualties and the horrors of the First World War.

The purpose of competition is to score points through the application of kumite principles while creating an exciting and competitive atmosphere, whereas the purpose of training kumite in the dojo is to be prepared to kill or cripple an opponent in a realistic situation.

: Hahn believed that “ The Platonic view of education is that a nation must do all it can to make the individual citizen discover his own power and further more that the individual becomes a cripple in his or her point of view if he is not qualified by education to serve the community .” The idea of service at the school is thought to encourage students to gain a feeling of responsibility to aid other people and is implemented in creating an array of services that every student becomes apart of ( see below ).

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

Leonard Kriegel ( born May 25, 1933 ) is an American author and self-proclaimed " cripple.

In 1996, O ' Reilly fought against a 10-Connection Limit on TCP / IP NT Workstations, writing a letter to the United States Department of Justice, Bill Gates, and CNN, concerned that the Internet is still in its infancy, and that limitations could cripple the technology before it ever has a chance to reach its full potential.

The difference is that these children are the " unwanted " ones or the " doomed " ones-a blind girl, a boy suffering from a fatal illness, a cripple, and so on.

In 2008, Gibbons suggested that the Nevada legislature cut the state budget for elementary, secondary and higher education by 14 %., Las Vegas Sun .</ ref > Jim Rogers, Nevada Chancellor for Education, said of the budget cuts, " We ’ re talking about something that is going to cripple us financially and competitively.

Jim Rogers, Nevada Chancellor for Education, said of the budget cuts, " We ’ re talking about something that is going to cripple us financially and competitively.

He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself.

Dees and the SPLC " have been credited with devising innovative legal ways to cripple hate groups, including seizing their assets.

:" I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.

The Norwegian resistance also smuggled people in and out of Norway during the war ( typically to Scotland via the ' Shetland Bus ', and to neutral Sweden ), and, with the SOE, managed to destroy much of the world's supply of heavy water and cripple the Vemork heavy water plant at Rjukan, thus perhaps preventing Germany from developing an atomic bomb ( Operation Gunnerside ).

In an attempt to cripple the United Kingdom economically, the Continental System – which forbade European nations from trading with the UK – was created.

Thrawn's forces control the droid starfighters remaining from the earlier Trade Federation engagement and use them, combined with the Jedi mind-meld, to cripple the Vagaari fleet.

The Andromeda lost and the Arkology was destroyed, but Trance still managed to cripple the Worldship with her powers.

Despite celebrating the club's birthday with an official mid-season function at Crown Casino, shortly afterward chairman Paul Gardner resigned, handing the presidency to former club champion Jim Stynes who inherited a $ 4. 5 million debt, which media pundits suggested would cripple the club.

In 2371, the combined intelligence organizations of the Cardassian Union and Romulan Star Empire attempted a strike into the Gamma Quadrant with a cloaked fleet, seeking to destroy the Founder's home planet and cripple the Dominion.

Users unlock CPUs to allow underclocking, overclocking, and front side bus speed compatibility with certain motherboards, but unlocking invalidates the manufacturer's warranty and mistakes can cripple a CPU.

Sam introduces Buddhism as a culture jamming tool and strives to cripple the power of the gods with this " new " religion.

Zeus thought about blasting them to death with thunderbolts, but did not want to deprive himself of their devotions and offerings, so he decided to cripple them by chopping them in half, in effect separating the two bodies.

In 1869, having conciliated the Vietnamese, Liu also won favour with the Chinese authorities by committing the Black Flag Army to a Chinese punitive campaign against the Yellow Flags, which gave him the opportunity to cripple this rival bandit army.

After the Socialist Party won for the second time, in the Parliamentary Elections in June 24, 2001, Nano returned to politics again after 2 years of inactivity by starting the movement called Catharsis, with the goal to cripple the agreement between Rama and Meta to share the political power between then for the next 10 years.

While Earth ships had enough firepower to cripple or destroy Minbari vessels, the Minbari warcruisers were equipped with highly advanced stealth systems which prevented EarthForce warships from achieving an automatic target lock, and gunners and pilots on Earth ships had to use inferior manual, visual targeting systems to try to hit their targets.

The plan, code-named " Operation Argument ", was to use both American strategic air forces in Europe, with support by the Royal Air Force with night bombing raids to destroy or seriously cripple the German ability to produce combat aircraft.

By putting forth legislation which forbids financial institutions from sharing information with other companies, single-product-line financial institutions could cripple integrated financial services companies because of the technicality that the banking, investments, and insurance parts of the business had to be operated under separate company affiliates within a holding company.

As the Revolution grew nearer, Couthon was quickly becoming a cripple, with both legs rapidly becoming completely paralyzed.

This particular variation of the art involved two teams dancing towards each other in formation, followed by each attempting to cripple their opponents with gracefully executed knee and foot moves.

In strategy games, to perform a rush, the attacking player focuses on quickly building a large number of units early on in the game with the hopes of swarming the opponents before they can defend themselves, this is to catch them off-guard and often to cripple the opponents economy structures.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was partly motivated by a desire to cripple U. S. naval power in the Pacific in order to allow the Empire of Japan to advance with reduced opposition from the US when it, in order to secure Japanese oil supplies, fought the British Empire and the Dutch Empire for control over the rich East Indian ( Dutch East Indies, Malay Peninsula ) oil-fields.

On one of the new team's first missions, Norman Osborn sends Bullseye and Penance to deal with a vigilante named Americop, Bullseye turns against Baldwin in order to force him to use his powers to cripple the vigilante.

" It was an Allied triumph to detach Portugal from her French alliance: with Lisbon as a base the Allied fleet could dominate the Strait of Gibraltar and cripple French action in the Mediterranean.