English-Spanish translation for "crippled"

crippled {noun}

crippled {noun} (also: disabled)

crippled {noun} (also: mentally handicapped person, handicapped person, disabled person)

crippled {adj.}

We see a crippled industry.

All our countries, to differing extents, are being crippled by unemployment.

Our infrastructure was almost totally destroyed, our communities devastated and our state institutions crippled.

. – I come from a country, Flanders, whose culture was crippled for decades because of domination by Belgian French-speakers.

Furthermore, it is an unfortunate fact that for every death around two people are crippled, or in other words disabled for life.

Even in a country such as France, almost 800 people die each year in work-related accidents, and several thousands are crippled for life.

In that way, freedom of opinion is crippled and problems become unmentionable, which is not, of course, the way to get them solved.

It gives some idea of the terrible toll of these two months of intifada: 270 dead, most of them Palestinian, and nearly 10 000 wounded, many of them crippled for life.

As the new millennium approaches, African states will not be able to make that stride to self-sufficiency if they continue to be crippled with debt repayments.

With millions of animals being slaughtered and farms being crippled or wiped out, this is hardly the time for party political argument.

And we fear that, despite the undoubted improvements to be effected by the numerous amendments, this legislation will still be crippled by inefficiencies in actually and properly implementing it.

On the one hand he has called for the Palestine authority to bear down on the terrorists in its midst but on the other he has crippled those very agencies which have the capacity to take such action.