The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.
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Armed guards aboard the boat returned fire, disabling one of the speedboats.
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This sentence should be in a good place, if I added it as is in Tatoeba. With your permission ! Since it contains the state of annexation, so "disabling", which has become problematic for writing.
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Researchers have developed what’s being hailed as a “breakthrough” in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, a crippling autoimmune disease that attacks the outer sheath of nerve cells, eventually disabling many of those with the neurological condition.
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