The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.

Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

The pain was gone, though it had been crippling the first time.

However, Sicard had opened up the south to the invasive actions of the Saracens in his war with Andrew II of Naples and when he was assassinated in 839, Amalfi declared independence and two factions fought for power in Benevento, crippling the principality and making it susceptible to external enemies.

The revolt failed, resulting in Hitler's arrest and the temporary crippling of the Nazi Party, which was virtually unknown outside Munich.

The capital was almost out of fuel and transport of supplies caused by a crippling general strike in southern Nepal on February 17, 2008.

In particular, the loss of two light cruisers and ten destroyers was crippling, as these were the very warships most suited to operating in the Channel narrows where the invasion would likely take place.

He was also crucially aided by the crippling dissent within the Labor Party in the 1950s and especially by the ALP split of 1954.

The policy was widely criticised and led to crippling sanctions being placed against the country in the 1980s.

The effect on research was crippling.

He escaped death but was subjected to a colossal fine, effectively crippling his power.

Under the Treaty of Neuilly, Bulgaria was forced to cede new territories and pay crippling reparations to its neighbours, thereby threatening political and economic stability.

The prosperity was ended by the Act of Union in 1800 and the Great Irish Famine which caused a crippling economic decline broken only by the so-called Celtic Tiger in the 1990s.

Perrund was once the Protector's prized concubine, which changed following an assassination attempt on UrLeyn ; Perrund shielded the Protector with her body, saving his life at the cost of crippling her left arm.

During the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign of Japan's internal waterways.

However, the injuries began to accumulate and take their toll, the most crippling of which was Keith Primeau season-ending concussion.

Austria's first attempt at republican governance, after the fall of the monarchy, was severely hampered by the crippling economic costs of war reparations required by the victorious Allies.

These were produced in France but avoided the crippling import duties of the 1950s, because the UK was by then a member of the EEC.

In 2005 and 2006, Réunion was hit by a crippling epidemic of chikungunya, a disease spread by mosquitoes.

" Hayek and others believed that classical liberalism had failed because of crippling conceptual flaws and that the only way to diagnose and rectify them was to withdraw into an intensive discussion group of similarly minded intellectuals.

In 1879 Judge J. B. Saunders, a friend of Jackson, claimed that his crippling disease was cured by the spring waters.

Although granted freedom of worship and generally better treated than non-Christians in most European countries, non-Muslims in the Ottoman empire were required, in accordance with Islamic law, to pay a special poll tax, the jizya, which in times of poor harvests was a crippling burden on mainly subsistence-level peasants.

His sudden death led to crippling death duties (£ 8m of an estate worth £ 14m ) and in 1985 the estate was transferred to the National Trust by his younger brother Henry Harpur-Crewe ( 1921-1991 ).

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

This was a doubly bitter blow to the king.

As it was, his absence because of his final illness was a blow to the administration.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

It was the first blow that was always difficult.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

Since a fall or blow might have caused it, a cold pack was usually first aid.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

Mr. Kennedy was less troubled by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament.

They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.

Johnston was the highest-ranking casualty of the war on either side, and his death was a strong blow to the morale of the Confederacy.

It may also be because, since 12 people stabbed the victim, none was certain who delivered the killing blow.

Earl Godwin's rebellion against the king in 1051 came as a blow to Ealdred, who was a supporter of the earl and his family.

It was a look as cold as steel, in which there was something threatening, even frightening, and it struck me like a blow.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".