"I came here because I was tired of making wine in France, with its petty regulations and crippling costs," he explains.

The crippling cost of the eurozone crisis becomes clearer by the day.

How can you shield yourself and your family from the crippling costs?

The working time directive alone would impose crippling costs of more than £5 billion on United Kingdom employers.

But when construction work on commercial projects lags, the aggravation is matched by crippling costs.

Unnecessary rules and regula tions pile crippling costs on to companies.

Mr. Branch said it had also allowed protesters to escape the crippling cumulative cost of bail and fines.

Without too crippling a cost, either.