Sentences with phrase «hobbled by»

Hobbled by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Clinton administration had little appetite for a public fight over integration.

That compares with 38 deals totaling $ 26 billion during the same time last year, when issuance was hobbled by market volatility.

Hotel values have been hobbled by widespread anxiety among tourists about the safety of air travel.

With a small - town real estate market hobbled by factory and store closings, Greg A. Storey used an auction to close a sale for almost double the market price.

However, improvement becomes more difficult if either partner is hobbled by core shame as described with our next assassin.

Barrick, however, was hobbled by a resume that covered too much ground, lacked context and failed to demonstrate his return on investment.

The Portege Z30 - C1310 crams a fast processor and long - lasting battery life in an attractive and lightweight chassis, but it's hobbled by a weak display.

But it's hobbled by inconsistent performance that hurts...

But hobbled by its short reach, we just can't recommend it.

We don't know yet whether Universal apps will have all the functionality of traditional desktop apps or be hobbled by the limitations that hold back today's Modern UI apps.

Although it could be argued that AR / MR makes for a better general - purpose computing experience, its adoption is so far hobbled by the lack of commercial devices.

On top of the grind of daily play and the ever - increasing amount of items to collect, Destiny was hobbled by befuddling design choices and maddening technical constraints.

We don't think you'll be hobbled by the battery life of the Droid DNA, but it's not the phone's sterling feature.

But the software has often by hobbled by its confusing implementation — there are three different versions called Voice, Home, and Vision — and its overall ineffectiveness when compared with offerings from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Canada's privacy law is already hobbled by the constitutional division of power.

Fort Nelson resident Bruce Erskine remains hobbled by a forklift accident more than eight years ago, but his WorkSafeBC claim remains unresolved.

Alas, like any guild, the legal profession is hobbled by the very thing which protects and enriches it.

Both agree that it is all too common for a lawyer's practice to be hobbled by sudden death or disability.

«Law departments struggle with these compilations of information because lawyers do not want to expose their ideas — lest they be criticized, perhaps; or they claim they do not have time, which really means that they do not see the payoff justifying their effort; or they are hobbled by technology, even down to the simple point of not being able to type proficiently.»

Unfortunately, it is hobbled by some poor design choices that make it very difficult to use.

Unfortunately, the program is hobbled by a difficult - to - navigate interface for form creation, and it doesn't provide any advanced CRM tools.

What Nordhaus and Shellenberger fail to grasp is that such technologies exist but are hobbled by the fact that businesses today make more profit supplying dirty energy than clean.

That means that any thermal power plant could be increasingly hobbled by limited cooling capacity.

«That conversation has been hobbled by too much wishful thinking and not enough hard data — exactly what Campbell is bringing to the table.»

Severely undercapitalized, hobbled by helmets, and going against best practices for network design, Pronto was doomed to disappointment at least and failure at most.

Climate science is also being hobbled by US / UN drug policy, that has banned a known «strategic resource» as a «Schedule One» drug.

Publication of O'Donnell et al., a paper by outsiders which refuted the main conclusion of a Nature cover story, refutes your paranoid presumption that the literature is somehow hobbled by climate scientists.

Using The Reference Station Method (a Hansen invention) will also be hobbled by an unrecognized slow oscillation in the hemispheres as the «baseline» relationship between thermometers will not match the «later» relationship.

Hobbled by the cultural embargo, the painting's market value collapsed.

Derailed by losing his studio to Hurricane Carla in 1961 and increasingly hobbled by alcoholism and skin cancer, Bess painted continuously until 1970.

In contrast to traditional surrealist notions which viewed the mind as being capable of limitless creation and technology as facilitating such unbounded creativity, Fedorova instead prefers to present the mind as being hobbled by technology.

Controls are sluggish, unresponsive, and further hobbled by sometimes glitchy animations that don't quite hit their mark.

However, it is hobbled by some dated mechanics that are hard to ignore.

Marriott Platinum is a solid elite status in terms of room upgrades, though as with gold, hobbled by all the brand limitations on lounge access and breakfast.

The IMF said in its annual report Thursday that Canada's economy will grow by 1.8 % in 2013, hobbled by a -LSB-...]

The financial stability of the retirement cohort is a fundamental pillar of any developed economy, and if that pillar is crumbling, it means future generations of elderly Canadians will be even more dependent on government support, even more hobbled by debt, and even more vulnerable to the kinds of economic swoons that we saw last year.»

FGIC and other bond insurance companies have been hobbled by their expansion into guaranteeing risky collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and asset backed bonds, markets that have been hammered by rising mortgage losses.

And although it's hobbled by the iPhone's smaller screen, it still provides an outstanding experience (for free, no less) that you definitely should try out in place of Amazon's device.

They run well but are hobbled by the display resolution, making for a marginal experience that could have been a great one with a better screen.

It is with these life - lessons in mind that we examine the Dell Streak, a 5 - inch Android 1.6 tablet that shows much promise but is hobbled by Android OS fracturing.

With a brand promise of «no drama, no hype,» The Hot Sheet is drawing acclaim for its incisive analysis of industry news not hobbled by the emotionality that pervades so much of the blog world and author - forum scene today.

Booksellers, hobbled by the economic crisis, are struggling to lure readers.

Despite our initial enthusiasm, after testing the eDGe we found it to be a Frankenstein - ish monster that's hobbled by a slow processor, some puzzling design choices and touchscreen technology that seems like it was cooked up during the Clinton administration.

range of folks represented in a population like entrepreneurial authors, makes it likelier that this person will be hobbled by charges of favoritism from within.

Hobbled by a sprained ankle, Pippa is unable to help with the preparations.

Blackberry has developed some striking hardware in recent years, but the phones were always hobbled by the BB OS, which wasn't very good to begin with and didn't have any of the apps you wanted.

When the only internationally recognised and tracked identifier is not in place on a book, it's not «visible» to researchers, so the full size of the marketplace and analysis of its action is hobbled by incomplete counts.

Just imagine when it's not hobbled by the crippling inefficiencies of Honeycomb.

Sony's PDF machine is a great try, hobbled by low res and high price, with barely good enough rendering even for PDF... I got so excited initially, until i did the math and seen the demos: simple PDF's, no zoomable fonts like a normal kindle page (sent from a WWW with Alt - k), no backlight, no apps and no Miracast... for 1K $

An outstanding book can succeed in spite of a bad cover, but you've hobbled it by not putting it's best face forward.