Is Mousemail.com nothing more than a high-tech crutch, a state-of-the-art substitute for old-fashioned good parenting?
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As a clear concession to her frailty, she's had the younger Sheryl Crow along as a crutch.
The PGA Tour has been searching for new stars to help wean itself off its Tiger Woods crutch.
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At Barajas, the Spanish felt no such need for the crutch of kitsch.
Smith hocks his lyrics over the music, generally without the crutch of melody.
It takes hours of rehearsal to deliver a captivating presentation without notes or the crutch of reading from slides.
But where there is no projected end to funding, subsidies stop being a catalyst, and start becoming a crutch.
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While some people can start a company while still working a full-time job, Silbermann says that was a crutch for him.
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If these companies are as good as they boast they are, then they no longer need the crutch of state support.
The question of when to kick the crutch and go full force into your business is always there, waiting to be answered.
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For quite a few Christian churches, ties to the state are a vital crutch, without which they would be jaded and weak.
The Fed needs to be sure it does not become a crutch for insolvent financial firms, distorting credit allocation and risk taking.
Many investors will continue to want to use them as a crutch: witness money-market funds' success in fending off proposals to reduce their reliance on ratings.
Although most of Couche-Tard's U.S. stores now are ones with gas pumps, Bouchard thinks he learned to be a merchandiser in Canada by not having that crutch.
Obviously not every use of CGI resulted in such dynamic effects work, and arguably computer-generated effects work became a crutch almost as quickly as it became a revelation.
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Spooked by the flood of foreign-built cars, President Dilma Rousseff, a onetime Marxist and late convert to capitalism, grabbed for a comfortable crutch earlier this year: tariffs.
Technology is wonderful, but it can also be a crutch.
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