1.   A Senate committee is considering whether to hold hearings into the Olympics bribery scandal, a proceeding that could lead to financially crippling sanctions against organizers.

2.   But at a time when the vast majority of the Iraqi people are reeling from crippling international sanctions, it is questionable whether they are spending money on novels.

3.   Even if the embargo were lifted tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of children would be left with irreparable developmental damage caused by eight years of crippling sanctions.

4.   In good times, they live under a severely restrictive regime and crippling economic sanctions.

5.   It could be a pretty city, but eight years of crippling economic sanctions have left its buildings and cars run down.

6.   It could be a pretty city, but eight years of crippling economic sanctions have left its buildings and cars rundown.

7.   It still faces crippling economic sanctions.

8.   Last week, he said he is through cooperating with international weapons inspectors and wants the crippling economic sanctions on his country lifted.

9.   Since then, Iraq has faced eight years of inspections and crippling economic sanctions.

10.   That is a crippling sanction in a financial system that depends on the instantaneous and unhindered flow of capital around the globe.