11.   Sharpton had already lost his case in federal court, and the ruling Friday seemed to deal a crippling blow to his efforts to win a runoff.

12.   So although the latest bombings surely destroyed some dual-purpose operations, that was hardly a crippling blow.

13.   The broadcast was a crippling blow to a business that Veilleux had built over decades with an excellent safety record, according to Robitzek.

14.   The failure to arrest Karadzic and Mladic is not only a moral blot and a crippling blow to the credibility of the war crimes tribunal.

15.   The famous Opera Ball, the highlight of the social season, has also been dealt a crippling blow.

16.   The plot has Kilmer and Sizemore leading a colonizing astronaut team to Mars after Earth suffers several crippling environmental blows.

17.   The U.S. Senate struck a crippling blow to legislation overhauling U.S. campaign finance laws, rejecting two procedural efforts to force a vote on the measure.

18.   When Courbet replaced Napoleon with peasants from Ornans, he did not kill history painting, exactly, but dealt its credibility a crippling blow.

19.   But cocoa-exporting nations in Africa immediately lashed out against the proposal as a crippling blow to their economies.

20.   Business owners called the price increases a crippling blow that would force more company closures.