While the subsidies do little or nothing to help American family farmers, they place a crippling burden on poor farmers elsewhere.

Extra consumer borrowing and spending could also help Chinese banks grow out of their crippling burden of nonperforming loans.

But within a few years, the heavy debt incurred for the $1 billion project, which has been operating since 1977, became a crippling economic burden.

Loans from foreign governments became crippling burdens to some countries that had difficulty even paying the interest on the loans.

It could place a crippling burden on his domain, but if he were to reject their claims, the alternative could be even more unpleasant.

The subject was appropriate to a show that bore a crippling messianic burden.

South Korea's banks carry a crippling burden of bad loans, scaring depositors and driving foreign investors to withdraw their money.

Moreover, as with the rank-and-file townsmen, the State's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants.

That is a crippling burden to Vietnamese exports and a deterrent to foreign investment.

It is important not to create a crippling administrative burden for our entrepreneurs, who are more often than not SMEs.