crippling

Sure the Greeks have some breathing room and don't have to pay crippling interest for a while.

Also, in Asimov's literary canon, the robots ultimately destroy themselves on the reasoning that having them around was crippling humanity.

By leaving the Euro Greece will have the opportunity to put their country back together without 20 years of crippling austerity.

His politics have always swayed between hilarious ignorance, impotent aggression and seemingly crippling senility.

It's a crippling trait which might prevent a person from meeting deadlines, and that's not something you want to indicate during an interview.

Just prior to his suicide, Wallace suffered an intense, crippling bout of depression, during which his parents flew to Claremont to watch him.

That's an interesting proposal, but I'm concerned that it sounds a bit like intentionally crippling TLS.

Indeed Germanys' own attempts at managing the crippling debts imposed upon it, resulted in the Debt Relief it seems so disinclined to offer to others.

Not to mention the crippling Italy, France and Germany's banks.

Professional athletes are already crippling there bodies with drugs.

Although crippling to Chromium on my machine, I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried.

While it is a crippling illness it gives one resistance to malaria; in much of Africa that enables one to live longer than those with healthy blood cells.

What is the difference between "crippling austerity" and "keeping spending within their means"?

Crippling APIs (try opening a datagram socket.