Then I will arrange to have the counteragent delivered, so that the ship survives without crippling damage.

He hurt like hell but suffered no crippling damage to flesh and bone.

If he tried and failed, his already battered sense of self worth would take crippling damage, and he knew it.

Not that all crippling damage was visible to the eye.

However, the submarine suffered no crippling damage and moved on to continue her patrol off the northeast coast of New Ireland.

Very few current-generation Safeholdian weapons could realistically hope to inflict crippling damage.

The sugarcane plantations on the island also suffered crippling damage.

The accusations, if they had been proven in court, could have meant crippling punitive damages.

What he saw through his squinting eyes was a landscape in which nothing seemed to have escaped withering, crippling damage.

The phrase, "to singe one's beard", was understood at the time to mean to inflict delay, though not crippling damage, upon an enemy.