hobble, fractional

On Tuesday, there was widespread agreement among the panelists that the macroeconomic environment is lousy and it's too early to call a bottom. But there was some controversy as well, including some questions about private equity fees, and Richard Thornburgh of Corsair Capital discussed the deal opportunities in the hobbled financial sector.

EU Will Be Globally Weak 'Hobbled Giant' by 2025: Report With General Motors about to follow Chrysler into bankruptcy, the nation’s ability to bounce back from the steep recession is being hobbled.

South Korean Web Sites Are Hobbled in New Round of Attacks
TOKYO, July 9 -- South Korea was bombarded Thursday with a third wave of cyberattacks, which disrupted and in some cases halted access to government, banking and media Web sites.
(By Blaine Harden, The Washington Post)



A new Global Trends report by the National Intelligence Council (NIC), Washington's main intelligence body, paints a bleak picture of the EU in 2025 with internal bickering, economic pressure and crime hobbling the bloc.
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No one has received reliable information on bin Laden's whereabouts since Dec. 2001. Hobbled by the continued lack of informants in Pakistan's tribal regions, officials are now concentrating on tracking down other al-Qaida leaders that could lead them back to the ultimate prize.


It's unrealistic to think that all or even the majority of factories lost to China will return to the United States if the price of oil continues to rise. A lot of equipment was disassembled and shipped abroad years ago, and it would require a massive reinvestment to move or replace it. And despite the high shipping costs, China still offers advantages: Many raw materials remain cheap, and millions of skilled laborers work for wages that are a fraction of what their American counterparts get.




Peacekeepers in Darfur Hobbled by Need
EL FASHER, Sudan -- Nearly a year after its creation, a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur is struggling, with fewer than half the soldiers promised, broken-down equipment, government obstacles, and what commanders say are the unrealistically high expectations of a world that...
(By Stephanie McCrummen, The Washington Post)



I had tried to use the stripped-down word processor from Microsoft that came installed on the notebook, Microsoft Works. But it didn’t allow me to paste 500 words into a document, or even a fraction of that, so it seemed too hobbled to use.

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restraint，breeding hobble

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hobble

v., -bled, -bling, -bles. v.intr.

To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty; limp.

v.tr.

1. To put a device around the legs of (a horse, for example) so as to hamper but not prevent movement.
2. To cause to limp.
3. To hamper the action or progress of; impede. See synonyms at hamper¹.

hobble (LIMIT) Hide phonetics
verb [T]
1 to limit something or control the freedom of someone:
A long list of amendments have hobbled the new legislation.

2 LITERARY If you hobble an animal, especially a horse, you tie two of its legs together so that it cannot run away.

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fraction Show phonetics
noun [C]
a number that results from dividing one whole number by another, or a small part of something:
¼ and 0.25 are different ways of representing the same fraction.
Although sexual and violent crimes have increased by 10%, they remain only a tiny/small fraction of the total number of crimes committed each year.
They can produce it at a fraction of the cost of (= much more cheaply than) traditional methods.

fractional Show phonetics
adjective
extremely small:
The fall in the value of the yen might result in a fractional increase in interest rates of perhaps a quarter of one per cent.

fractionally Show phonetics
adverb
Despite substantial price cuts, sales have increased only fractionally (= by a very small amount).

frac・tion

━━ n. 断片; 少部分; （a ～） ((副詞的)) ほんの少し; 【数】分数; 【化】留分.
frac・tion・al　━━ a. ごくわずかな; 【数】分数の.
frac・tion・al・ly　ad. ごくわずかに.
fractional crystallization　【化】分別結晶作用, 分別晶出.
fractional distillation　【化】分留, 分別蒸留.
fractional share　【株】端株.