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    1. She had always been a master of bottling up anger, an emotional handicap that found its only useful outlet in the pain and revenge of the roller derby


    2. The front porch was adorned with a handicap ramp and the van that


    3. But for golfers who are something less than pros, your handicap may be a tedious piece of paperwork


    4. There are several software and Internet programs available that will help you come up with your numerical handicap, and even help you track your scores to establish your


    5. You can find programs that do all the calculations for you, offering up a spreadsheet with all your stats, or choose a simpler program that merely gives you a numerical handicap


    6. There are many benefits to establishing and tracking your handicap


    7. your golf handicap, check with any tournaments you play to participate in


    8. You can measure the “speed” of the course using a stimp meter and track your scores to establish your golf handicap using the latest software


    9. Mark the Rooinek was a good player (4 handicap), while I am an exceedingly bad player


    10. This building had been built handicap, or wheel chair friendly

    11. It is said that he handicap was half of what it used to be afterwards


    12. As a result of my handicap nothing really exciting has happened


    13. Those who have chosen to experience a disease or handicap will not respond until the lesson is learned


    14. Not speaking the local language is a real handicap for a journalist


    15. The reason that he telephoned me, Monica, is that he is concerned with the well being of all his patients and because you have a little handicap, he feels bad, because he doesn"t know why you would try to destroy yourself


    16. "Because I wanted to show you someone with a different handicap than you have, Monica, and how this man copes with his problem


    17. "Do you see the handicap that man has, Monica?"


    18. handicap, and treat him as well as others, it will


    19. This was a significant handicap, as “braking bread together” has always been a source of


    20. 8 But Rousseau found this deficit an opportunity rather than a handicap

    21. Because of this physical handicap, she’d been having trouble finding


    22. Of course, having no radio was a bit of a handicap, but it was the tropics, for crying out loud


    23. So, don’t handicap yourself


    24. When a child is born into the tribe with a physical handicap that makes it unable to serve the tribe, it is quickly put to death


    25. His temperamental handicap was his lack of enthusiasm; he many times failed to encourage his associates by judicious commendation


    26. 2 Another great handicap in this work of teaching the twelve was their tendency to take highly idealistic and spiritual principles of religious truth and remake them into concrete rules of personal conduct


    27. She ran for the restrooms inside the truck stop and carried him into the ladies room where she set him down on the commode in a handicap stall, placing his arms on the rails


    28. Some of the terms you may want to research on would include fore, bogey, bunker, handicap, and more


    29. The visible church should refuse longer to handicap the progress of the invisible and spiritual brotherhood of the kingdom of God


    30. That this process had been occurring for thousands, if not millions of years proved no handicap to the life forms on the planet as they mutated to survive

    31. He was still too young to fully understand his handicap


    32. Ed often took advantage of a certain amount of mothering he received from his friends, but the group support was invaluable to him in the light of his handicap


    33. infection, and a severe handicap (major tooth loss or a loss of


    34. Depending on the severity of the handicap normal physical


    35. Your handicap is not your self


    36. ” In the early 1970s, he came out of retirement, saying he did so because his golf handicap was still the same as when he retired


    37. I had to drive with the added handicap of tremendous


    38. Many who watched felt that the cloth was a handicap, but just


    39. Another handicap for Holland was steering into the wind, which caused spray to drench the lenses of the British range finders


    40. Cliff, the real sportsman and all rounder, manages a par 3 with his handicap of as much as five, and he wins the game easily

    41. The quality of our pilots can compensate partly for that speed handicap, but the Mig-15 always has the option of breaking off combat at will or to dive through our bomber formations and shoot up one of our planes before fleeing


    42. That inherent bias and inability to understand another’s perceptions is a standard handicap of the human race


    43. the handicap markers painted in the handicap spots were


    44. Trying to understand this in light of the fact that we exist as individuals on average of eighty laps around the sun, give or take twenty years, seems at first, to handicap us


    45. nated handicap, coupled with the odds that were bet on any one


    46. was despite the handicap of seriously deformed hands


    47. handicap of eighteen on the happy group of hackers and thus began many years of


    48. ‘With your assets and abilities,’ said Tara not giving up, ‘that shouldn’t be a handicap


    49. ‘Of course, with his ability to think,’ said Chitra as though to stress upon the obvious, ‘that’s no handicap


    50. “What a handicap it was to be divorced, thought my son; self-service at home and harlot-solace in a brothel; what service and how much solace! Women were ever scary of even wealthy divorcees as if divorce underscores one’s incompatibility once and for all, and a whore was no answer for a wife






































    1. There are a number of NGOs doing good work in the field of healthcare, bringing up parentless and destitute children, care of physically handicapped, education of poor children, nourishment for patients and disaster management and rehabilitation


    2. night, wheeling himself down the newly constructed handicapped ramp


    3. On the other hand, someone handicapped or sub-endowed could also derive a lot of satisfaction from a less prominent rank because of lessons well learnt


    4. handicapped with you?” I tried to reason


    5. handicapped by the fact that he would not believe anything he


    6. what Liberals were hoping for! Here it comes: ―root cause‖ diatribes about the odious intolerance of Conservatives…and Republicans, that, to a news media handicapped by political blinders, will be perceived as ―Guilty by Association


    7. The other likely candidates, James Buchanan and Lewis Cass, were handicapped


    8. He would continue the war, but remain very handicapped by divisions in Congress and public perception that he would give in to the treason of the Confederacy


    9. But whatever the merits of these proposals he would have been enormously handicapped with no party in Congress to back him, a hostile and undiplomatic temper, and a tendency to imagine dark plots


    10. stillbirths, parents of handicapped children, in short all imaginable

    11. lie, our handicapped child, while i went to bring the van around to the


    12. Not far away, at a school for severely mentally handicapped children, there’s a vacancy


    13. In those lonely, struggling years before he came, I taught severely mentally handicapped children


    14. Now it was my turn to care for my handicapped husband


    15. Yes, it is a fact that I am handicapped


    16. bility needs of its guests; it is handicapped


    17. And how dare she flaunt a handicapped baby in the face of abortion on call


    18. Instead, her attitude in the therapy room responded to the needs of those trying to learn and master the techniques of the handicapped


    19. Doctor Stepanic had informed her about several programs available to the handicapped, one of which was to learn computer programming


    20. handicapped, black and white, etc

    21. I would hope that a handicapped person would receive inspiration from my books


    22. The Kaiser job fell apart by the summer of 1974, so I immediately started looking for another position in the Bay Area, but was handicapped by the fact that I was not admitted to the California bar


    23. handicapped child is considered a blight on the community


    24. As more and more handicapped persons are


    25. Whether the handicapped person is


    26. The special needs of the handicapped person can


    27. have one or more handicapped employees, they


    28. workplace more accessible to the handicapped


    29. The attitude of others toward the handicapped


    30. Obviously, no clear bias against the handicapped

    31. “Why all the wars, disease, old age, hunger, selfishness, evil, exploitation of man by man, and the rot and vermin that are satiated with this? Why so many children who cry desperately? Why, while some feast, are others consumed by hunger and suffer the cruelty of begging and stealing just to stay alive? Why the thieves, including the big thieves who hide behind big business and government? Why the killers, both those who kill for pleasure and those who kill in the name of corrupt laws? Why so many concentration camps, so many jails, asylums, and mental institutions? Why so many physically and mentally handicapped? Why so many animals that cruelly devour each other? Why so many weapons? What is the reason for so many so-called natural disasters that kill innocent people and destroy their T H E L O V E S P I R I T S


    32. "Why did God give me a handicapped son?”


    33. According to rumour, one mother had brought aboard a severely handicapped boy, and the two


    34. Even this was a struggle for Bridget with three young children one of whom was handicapped


    35. A nurse who visited them regularly to monitor Baby Luke and saw the position they were in suggested to Bridget that she could have him admitted to a home for the handicapped if she applied


    36. severely handicapped, the strain was beginning to tell on Bridget


    37. He felt very self-conscious wearing it and thought people stared at him as though he was handicapped


    38. handicapped and felt very sorrowful for his demise


    39. Baby Luke who would have been close to him in that respect was taken away to the home for the handicapped in Dublin when he was young and the twins, both boys had died at birth


    40. The one thing they had planned to do during their time in Dublin was to visit Baby Luke in the home for the handicapped in Palmerston

    41. Bridget would often ring her, as she and her husband Mick would visit him in the home for the handicapped


    42. She was helped by Margaret and Joe to explain that a handicapped brother they had little or no memories of, through cruel circumstances, had passed away and gone to Heaven as she put it


    43. Sarah was home before Matthew that evening and was very upset, she remembering him as a child at home in Dublin and visiting him in the home for the handicapped there


    44. He was born, severely mentally and physically handicapped and had lived most of his life in the in the home for the handicapped in Palmerston, Dublin


    45. handicapped followed behind the mourners as the coffin was carried to the grave


    46. They thanked the kindness and thoughtfulness of the nurses and the handicapped children who just smiled innocently


    47. One of the younger little girls was clearly handicapped and wore callipers on her legs


    48. Patrick now worked in Social Services, dealing with the handicapped and Declan now worked with the Electricity Board


    49. He did musical therapy with the handicapped people in his job in Social Services


    50. He ran leaving his old father broke with a handicapped teenager on his hands, knowing that there was














































    1. I recall a night at Yonkers using this particular method of handicapping


    2. Unbeknownst to the doctors and unbeknownst to the nurses, he was handicapping the races with the racing form while he was supposed to be lying in bed and recuperating


    3. While he was laying here in bed, handicapping the races, we were making the bets with our money


    4. " Mitchell's eyes connected with Chance, he noticed how red his eyes were, further handicapping his previous claim


    5. successful), I found out that by always “taking charge”, I have been handicapping her


    1. Remember, some diseases or handicaps are placed in your life as a spiritual lesson for your personal growth


    2. handicaps she had witnessed today


    3. Some suffer from the accidents of time, others as a result of the mistakes of their forebears, while some of you struggle under the handicaps of the imperfect conditions of your temporal existence


    4. The imperfections and handicaps of evil are inherent; the penalties of sin are inevitable; the destroying consequences of iniquity are inexorable


    5. Anger depletes the health, debases the mind, and handicaps the spirit teacher of man's soul


    6. You had handicaps that you probably thought were benefits


    7. Handicaps and physical deformities are not simply for the being experiencing them within that seemingly broken body


    8. She rose above all these handicaps, surviving with her love of music and becoming a great singer


    9. In spite of their tremendous handicaps however, they fought with great valor,


    10. want to be a success and overcome the invisible handicaps

    11. Despite of these handicaps, however, the American colonists fought on for years, sustaining many defeats, but eventually won through sheer resilience and strength of spirit


    12. My handicaps are not


    13. Between the glass counters, shelves, food, and the frightened counter girls scurrying back and forth, she's fighting with too many handicaps


    14. By the same token, there have always been instances of people born in the lower social classes who by sheer gumption raised themselves up in life in spite of all handicaps


    15. But, would the Hindu majority, recovering from the humiliation of a thousand years of alien rule, suffer a foreigner taking the capital seat of Hindustan? The Congressmen, and more so women, though seem not to mind, unmindful of the perils of having a person of foreign origin as the country’s Prime Minister! Wouldn’t every nation be a hostage of its own history that lends itself to color its people’s thinking towards the other countries and their peoples? Could an Israelite origin Prime Minister be objective in India’s ties with the Palestine? What about India’s relations with the Western world under the premiership of some naturalized Iranian or an Iraqi? Wouldn’t an Indian political head of Bangladeshi origin, nursing a grouse of his sister’s molestation by some Punjabi fauzis during the crisis in his parent country be tempted to settle scores with Pakistan with India’s military might? Why, could any such one be what he or she should be as India’s Prime Minister; without a native Indian at the helm of affairs, won’t India’s detractors exploit the handicaps of a foreign origin numero uno to jeopardize the Indian national interests?


    16. Despite his handicaps and whatever health issues he was going through,


    17. He should have been a shining example to all who face the awful odds of overcoming serious handicaps


    18. with other handicaps amounting to something in the world, the able-bodied man should feel ashamed of


    19. This case would be especially embarrassing for them – first, they have stated that the crown was destroyed centuries ago and, second, you are a young Englishman, no religious beliefs, no historical background and limited access to Church files and vaults and yet, despite these handicaps, you are still ahead of them


    20. Many of the young men and women among our readers, who are concerned with love and marriage, have undoubtedly become aware of inner handicaps of their own--handicaps of thought and feeling which they recognize as their heritage from a generation of other-mindedness in regard to matters of sex

    21. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths”


    22. Most traders enter the marketplace with no awareness of the handicaps and weaknesses they bring into the arena, and they are doomed to failure before they even begin


    23. What types of securities or situations lend themselves best to this more positive activity of the analyst, and to what handicaps or limitations is it subject? It may be well to start with a group of examples of analytical judgments, which could later serve as a basis for a more general inquiry


    24. In the first place, what may be called the mechanics of speculation involves serious handicaps to the speculator, which may outweigh the benefits conferred by analytical study


    25. While the growth in developing countries is faster than in our own, there are serious imponderables: Will regulations change in a way that handicaps the foreign investor? What are the chances the business will be nationalized? Will a contract with a foreign government be honored? And there are more mundane risks such as currency fluctuations, the accuracy of local accounting practices, and management corruption


    26. Although he has obvious technical advantages over the small investor, he suffers from three special handicaps:


    27. Here are some of the handicaps mutual-fund managers and other professional investors are saddled with:


    28. As a result of these handicaps, the probability that a specific horse will win is exactly the same as that of any other horse in the race


    29. "Eliminate the handicaps, man!"


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    Synonyms for "handicap"

    handicap balk baulk check deterrent hinderance hindrance impediment disability disablement impairment disable incapacitate invalid hamper hinder injury affliction infirmity embarrassment disadvantage limitation block set-back obstacle detriment encumber retard disfavour impair

    "handicap" definitions

    the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness


    advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning


    something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress


    injure permanently


    attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant


    put at a disadvantage