7 sentences with “crippled”

Overall, Europe was in ruins, with entire cities destroyed, and even the victorious Allied nations were economically crippled.

Italy was devastated; it was the Byzantine invasion, not the earlier "fall of Rome", that crippled the Italian economy until the late Middle Ages.

In the end, the Byzantines succeeded in destroying the Gothic kingdom and retaking Italy, but the war crippled the Italian economy and drained the Byzantine coffers.

In one fell swoop, Louis XIV crippled what had been one of the most commercially productive sectors of the French population, ultimately strengthening his various enemies in the process.

World War I devastated huge swathes of territory and left the economies of the Western world crippled or reeling. To make matters worse, the war completely failed to solve the problems that had caused it.

A brilliant Russian general oversaw a major offensive in 1916 that crippled Austrian forces, but did not force Austria out of the war. As a result, the lack of support and coordination from the other Russian generals eventually slowed the offensive.

Even when German factories were crippled by Allied bombs, the war machine was held together by its enormous reliance on slavery. In short, it was not mere "slave labour" (a phrase that undermines the horror of the institution) that drove the Third Reich, it was slavery enforced through lethal violence.