Sentences with phrase «potentially crippling»

Taylor believes that this worst - case scenario can successfully be averted if the public and private sectors continue to work together to stave off the potentially crippling impact of the water crisis.

But, Laas said, massive infrastructure projects cost money, and that money can be generated only by potentially crippling tax hikes.

For very little cost to you, you can save yourself from the potentially crippling cost of a catastrophic claim event.

That can be a potentially crippling problem to a law firm.

The verdict «amounts to a potentially crippling financial blow for the 43 - year - old Eastside firm,» Star reporter Jeff Swiatek writes.

Mr. Obama and EPA chief Gina McCarthy are nevertheless determined to slash reliance on coal, even in 20 states that rely on this fuel for half to 95 % of their electricity, potentially crippling their economies.

But be warned, your path is marked with potentially crippling bugs and a swathes of unforeseen pitfalls.

This painful and potentially crippling joint disease is a predominantly age - related condition.

IVD is a serious and potentially crippling disease.

Hip dysplasia is a potentially crippling condition that occurs in dogs as well as people.

Margin trading is regulated by the federal government and other self - regulatory agencies in an effort to mitigate potentially crippling losses for both investors and brokerages.

However, it is important that you don't go over the top and spend far beyond your means if you want to avoid potentially crippling debt.

If you are willing to write personal statement letters and fill out applications — to avoid potentially crippling debt, who wouldn't be willing?

Beyond exposing yourself to a potentially crippling financial risk, allowing your home insurance policy to lapse might cost you a lot more money in the long run.

On Monday, February 26, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Janus vs. AFSCME, a case that could deal a potentially crippling blow to public sector unions.

The case «could overturn decades - old precedent and deal a potentially crippling blow to public sector unions.»

Without Shanker, the AFT was likely to have joined the opposition, potentially crippling the report.

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Unfortunately, the gene doesn't always work, and viral carriers insert the new DNA randomly into the genome, potentially crippling other genes.

Newborn screening had cleared Jayson Muelder of three potentially crippling fates.

A metal plate has been screwed into four of this patient's vertebrae to prevent any potentially crippling pressure on the spinal cord.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board staff has recommended that Democratic mayoral candidate John Liu be denied public matching funds, his campaign said Thursday, dealing a potentially crippling blow to his bid for City Hall.

Mayor de Blasio refused to change his Italy vacation plans for a potentially crippling railroad strike — but suddenly delayed the trip Friday amid outcries for a full investigation into...

But as a service to himself and the citizens of New York, Silver should step aside from the speaker's role until this potentially crippling problem is resolved.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There was handshaking and back - patting all around Thursday, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo helped broker a deal between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Long Island Rail Road unions to avoid a potentially crippling strike.

The Bengals weathered the potentially crippling losses with young players.

Another potentially crippling compromise allows the ICC to hear cases (again, except for those referred by the Security Council) only when the states involved are unable or unwilling to do so.

Chalkstone was born out of counter-insurgency tactics used by troops in Afghanistan, but its unique methodology is now being used by miners, which can map - out power structures and counter the potentially crippling risk of strikes and political opposition.

But by the time everything was over, the village was an estimated $ 8.5 million in debt, a potentially crippling figure for a small village of a few thousand people.

It can be a daunting — and potentially crippling — undertaking.

That would be a potentially crippling blow to the Maduro government, which depends almost exclusively on crude sales to sustain what's left of the economy.

Duncan notes that foreign workers both start far more businesses than Americans, and that they're needed to avoid potentially crippling labor shortages in industries from farming to construction to tech.

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These issues, among others, have been cited as many in the industry as crippling a potentially powerful exemption.

Though none of these are physically career threatening, each of them is potentially confidence - crippling.

John Kennedy (R - Nesconset) said the county hasn't considered all alternatives to potentially service - crippling layoffs.

In Freud's model, the relentless efforts by other parts of the mind to control these potentially destructive notions and impulses can lead to crippling symptoms such as anxiety, depression and pervasive misery.

But had this opportunity come late in his first postdoc year or early in his second, when his undischarged obligation would have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, he would have had to choose between losing a potentially life - changing career opportunity and adding a crippling burden to the undergraduate student debt he already owed.

A valuable reminder about some brilliant black folks gifted and daring enough to make seminal cultural and social contributions to the nation in spite of their potentially - crippling, color - coded, second - class status.

One potentially useful option to avoid the crippling tuition fees in the states is to instead get your degree abroad.

It's there for those who are eligible for a few reasons: 1) it's a recognition that school loans are unduly burdensome 2) recognition that you are employed in a public interest oriented and potentially income capped / lower income type job 3) public interest jobs are in and of themselves valuable in ways that can't / shouldn't be quantified and in order to encourage people to stay in those jobs assistance with crippling debt should be available to those people.

He argued the ruling could upend prima facie liability: if Twitter infringed a copyright in a photo, any other website linking to that photo would then be on the hook, writing, «A single infringing upload by a Twitter user potentially virally contaminates everyone else — potentially thousands of people — unwittingly using the embed feature, exposing all of them to financially crippling copyright litigation.»