The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.

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.

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.

Every man who shall become a cripple or lose a limb in the service shall have 800 pieces of eight from the common stock and for lesser hurts proportionately.

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 ).

A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness.

In the scroll over the cripple beggars in the center of The Triumph of Death, for instance, it says, " Since prosperity has completely deserted us, O Death, you who are the medicine for all pain, come to give us our last supper.

The cows fire energy beams that cripple the Vision, who while able to turn intangible cannot move.

Marxists and socialists who advocate socialism argue that welfare states and ( modern ) social democratic policies limit the incentive system of the market by providing things such as minimum wages, unemployment insurance, taxing profits and reducing the reserve army of labor, resulting in capitalists have little incentive to invest ; in essence, social welfare policies cripple the capitalist system and its incentive system, the only solution being a socialist economic system.

Enraged at the mugging, Salieri orders Tommy and Paulie to hunt the gang and cripple them, which then leads up to the Salieri family being targets of the city government as Tommy murdered one gang member who was the son of an alderman.

The howl is modulated to affect the complex, intelligent brains of sentient beings, and will almost instantly disorient and cripple those who hear it.

J. P. Pettigrew's ( Bernhard Goetzke ) wife died giving birth to his son Edward ( John F. Hamilton ) who was born a cripple.

Wayne remains supportive of the Foxes and has Terry make sure to protect it from Inque, who is hired to cripple the company.

On June 25, 2011, during a show at Caroline's in New York City, Morgan made derogatory comments about disabled children, saying things such as, " Don't ever mess with women who have retarded kids ," and referring to a woman as " a cripple ".

The largest fragment tells of a king who holds a feast to which he invites everyone except two beggars, a blind man and a cripple.

Emma agreed to this, but Bernard asked to choose the man who was to do the running, and when Emma agreed to that too, picked out a legless cripple past whom they had just walked.

Barricade is later killed by several soldiers who coincidentally use boomsticks created by Que to cripple him.

The mystery reveals to be that Carmichael was an orphan adopted by his non-biological father, who had drowned the real Joseph Carmichael, a cripple, in the bathtub.

The protagonist of the novel, Yasunori Kato, is a heretical onmyoji who wants to cripple the Japanese Empire and he must contend with the Tsuchimikado Family ; the leader of which is Yasumasa Hirai, who is the direct descendant of Abe no Seimei.

At the same time, Face, who has just been promoted to Brevet Captain and given command of the squad, delves deeper into the history of Lara Notsil, finding out her secret and forcing her to abandon the group, though she would later help out the New Republic by creating an army of saboteur droids to cripple the flagship of the warlord.

A slave, a cripple or a criminal was chosen by the pharmakon or sorcerer and expelled from the community at times of disaster ( famine, invasion or plague ) or at times of calendrical crisis, after being given pharmakeus or drugs by the pharmakon or sorcerer who was a practitioner of pharmakeia or pharmaceutics.

In 1976, Tyler moved to Yorkshire Television to replace Keith Chegwin and began to make an impression on ITV Sport bosses, who included him in the Guinness Book of Records for being the first sports commentator to have had a massive stroke and be an official cripple.

SpamCop views itself as an attempt to stop spam without the necessity of governmental intervention, but because it lacks the power of a government or large ISP, it may have greater difficulty dealing with spammers ' expertise as well as the large " bot " networks that they control and that they used to cripple Blue Security with a massive DDoS attack.

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.

Startled and angry to find the children there in his late mistress ' ( Colin's mother's ) garden he admits he believed Colin to be a cripple.

They are pursued by Sunfire ; they manage to get the better of him and take him prisoner, but not before he manages to cripple the jet.

* January 1 – Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the Luftwaffe to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries

A " limited nuclear war " could include targeting military facilities-either as an attempt to pre-emptively cripple the enemy's ability to attack as a defensive measure, or as a prelude to an invasion by conventional forces, as an offensive measure.

:" 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.

Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt — already facing criticism related to his alleged hostility to environmentalism and his support of the development and use of federal lands by foresting, ranching, and other commercial interests, and for banning The Beach Boys from playing a 1983 Independence Day concert on the National Mall out of concerns of attracting " an undesirable element "— resigned abruptly after a September 21, 1983, speech in which he said about his staff: " I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.

When the Roman senate heard that the Syrian kingdom kept more warships and elephants than allowed by the peace treaty of Apamea made in 188 BC, they sent a Roman embassy to travel along the cities of Syria and attempted to cripple Seleucid military power by sinking the Syrians ' warships and hamstringing their elephants.

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.

The change to the current frequencies, 88 to 108 MHz, began after the end of World War II, and was to some extent imposed by AM broadcasters as an attempt to cripple what was by now realized to be a potentially serious threat.

He then counted on a massive French thrust, to be conducted by 16, 000 troops of Soult's IV Corps, through the centre to cripple the Allied army.

He only wished to temporarily cripple France by the billion franc reparation, but suddenly he was confronted by the demands of Marshals Albrecht von Roon and Helmut von Moltke ( backed by Emperor Wilhelm I ) to annex the two French provinces as further payment.

: 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 ).

However the Free State's tactics of internment and executions combined to cripple the anti-Treaty forces by April 1923.

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.

Their main function was to cripple the enemy by engaging and killing their best men and leaders in battle.

Years later, wrestler Ad Santel told Lou Thesz that he was paid $ 5000 by Gotch's backers to cripple Hackenschmidt in training, and make it look like an accident.

Years later, wrestler Ad Santel told Lou Thesz that he was paid $ 5000 by Gotch's backers to cripple Hackenschmidt in training, and make it look like an accident.

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.