The grants would also have been subject to crippling restrictions preventing clients from getting legal help in obtaining government benefits for which they qualify, or even in mundane divorce cases.

Both she and Mr. Sisulu were placed and remain under crippling restrictions that keep them from doing their work.

And it has put crippling restrictions on the kinds of cases Legal Services lawyers may bring.

But the bill permits these crippling restrictions.

Iraq has lied about its weapons programs and stocks, threatened inspection teams and imposed crippling restrictions on helicopter reconnaissance flights.

He said he feared that the coming negotiations would produce crippling restrictions on the American economy while allowing developing nations to continue virtually unchecked growth.

Mismanagement, managerial incompetence, and crippling restrictions from the first bankruptcy deal also contributed to Tower's demise.

However, bills are pending in both Houses of Congress to place crippling restrictions on the use of DAT, but the chance of their passing has been dimmed by recent findings of the National Bureau of Standards.

Mr. Lewis notes that Mr. Sisulu was released "under crippling restrictions" that are "less noticeable abroad than prison without trial."