1.   Both democracy and the modern corporation had dealt crippling blows.

2.   And on Friday, Pfizer delivered a possibly crippling blow, saying that it was pulling out of a partnership to develop the vaccine.

3.   Already, several companies have been dealt a crippling blow by litigation.

4.   Alliance officials insist the assassination will prove to be a rallying point, not a crippling blow.

5.   But they also dealt a crippling blow to a weakening economy with effects rippling across the globe.

6.   Certainly no one now says that the presidency sustained crippling blows.

7.   Freedom of speech in the United States will suffer a crippling blow.

8.   His death, if true, would be a crippling blow to al-Qaida.

9.   International donors may continue withholding aid, a crippling blow to a nation where foreign support in the past has accounted for more than half the budget.

10.   Plans to revive the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass. have apparently survived a potentially crippling blow in the form of an audit by a federal watchdog agency.