That position, American and British officials said, forced Libya, economically crippled and desperate for the return of foreign oil companies, to consider the new concessions.

The $42 million annual industry, economically crippled, responded by utilizing local law enforcement against the strikers and the community.

Manufacturers are said to fear that they would be economically crippled by a submarine patent if the change in the law had not taken place.

While Lower Manhattan was economically crippled by the World Trade Center's destruction, Aubrey Rogers, district director of the Small Business Administration, said that elsewhere in the city, "we have not been seeing a diminution of small businesses seeking to get started or expand."

As is the case now, Africans won't be able to compete with home-grown or produced goods, thus they will remain in economically crippled and ever-reliant on Aid.

New York City is economically crippled by its inability to connect to the national rail freight system, which lies just over the Hudson in New Jersey.

The longer Iran remains economically crippled, the less damage it can do.

The accident is said to have economically crippled those areas most affected by the fallout.

Even if we go along, the Vostigye Union could be economically crippled, politically destabilized.