He had been stirring up hysteria for weeks that the sequester would cripple the economy and wreak untold disaster and inconvenience on the American people.
Denying this vital relationship and at times working to destroy it not only has the potential to cripple the U.S. economy but also industries, such as renewable energy and medical research, that are heavily dependent on early and decades-long government investment.
Oligarchs are betting that the shortened campaign will cripple the opposition and that Putin will ride to a four-year term on their manufactured war wave.
Pengassan members monitor the quantity and quality of crude leaving Nigerian terminals, and some observers have said the strike threatens to cripple the country's export capability.
Hers is an event so demanding on the body that UK Athletics's Max Jones has dubbed it the "cripple jump".
But they have managed to kill the creation of new public companies in the U.S., cripple the venture capital business, and damage entrepreneurship.
Athletic Directors such as Troy Dannen of the University of Northern Iowa think the loss of such games could cripple the budget of institutions like his.
FORBES: Elimination Of Guarantee Games Increases Likelihood Of NCAA Breakup
The new plan includes six of the country's 34 provinces, including Kabul, seven major cities, including Jalalabad, and dozens of districts, including Helmand province's Marjah, which was the first target last year of U.S. Marines at the forefront of the American military surge meant to cripple the Taliban-led insurgency.
Unlike the unilateral truce that went up in flames with the Hamas bus bombing in Jerusalem last month, this one would be mutual: the Palestinians would end all acts of violence in return for Israel ending its assassinations of Palestinian militants and lifting the blockades that cripple Palestinian life throughout the occupied territories.
Meanwhile, the Ashmolean Museum, also in Oxford, has a tiny show of Brazilian baroque art, including expressive wood carvings by a legendary 18th-century mulatto sculptor who was nicknamed O Aleijadinho, the Little Cripple, because in later life he became so disfigured by disease that his assistants had to strap his tools to his wrists.
Such an attack on the US, for instance, would cripple the American economy, and render the US government at all levels incapable of restoring order or preventing mass starvation.
With the additional state documentation requirements, Arizona will cripple the effectiveness of neighborhood and community voter registration drives, advocates say.
But it also hints at the capricious Mr Hussein's power to cripple the Kurdish economy overnight, should he decide to flood it by releasing billions of Swiss dinars.
Even more appalling than the steps the Clinton Administration has taken to date that would cripple the SDI program is the fact that such an outcome is precisely what the Administration intends to accomplish.
If documents were released showing the church to have been negligent, the risk is that juries might award damages large enough to cripple the church (last year the Catholic dioceses of Spokane, Portland and Tucson all declared bankruptcy).
ECONOMIST: The Catholic Church on trial: The Orange approach | The
Despite the credit rating, investors fear that punitive-damage awards could cripple the industry, or even wipe it out.
In the first, the loss of the Left Front's votes in parliament would be likely to cripple the government's policymaking ability.
ECONOMIST: Exit polls point to a narrow BJP victory in Gujarat
The Ukrainian government could cripple Transdniestria by policing the common border tightly.
Regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum, it is crystal clear that carbon dioxide restrictions would cripple the U.S. economy for decades to come.
FORBES: The Senate's EPA Vote Will Help Determine Our Economic Future
Indeed, profit is inconsistent with the point of such a programme which is to socialise losses that would otherwise cripple the financial sector and toss millions of people out of their homes.
Yet unless the U.S. is ready to risk a trade war that would further cripple the global economy, pandering to lawmakers' bellicose instincts will lead nowhere.
The pending cap and trade tax legislation and Environmental Protection Agency global warming regulation threaten to cripple the economy with high cost and unproven energy, the specter of which is also is already killing jobs.
On the other hand, many Republicans, led by their intellectual lights at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, have long accepted--no, championed--the notion that unless people are forced to carry insurance, freeloaders who land in emergency rooms will cripple the health care system.
The Bush administration says Kyoto's mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, notably carbon dioxide, would cripple the economy.
U.S. officials believe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is increasingly dominating Tehran's foreign policy, particularly as sanctions threaten to cripple the Iran economy.
They relly want to cripple the government and make gigantic cuts to Socual Security and Medicare.
To really damage these oil exports and cripple the Western economies is very difficult to do.
Higher interest rates they argue would cripple the economy and permanently increase debt service costs.
America already claims to have captured two-thirds of al-Qaeda's leaders, so this could cripple the group.
应用推荐