How To Use Paralyse In A Sentence
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The disease paralysed his right leg, leaving him unable to walk.
The Sun
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If the present rules were retained, the entry of many relatively smaller and economically weak countries would either paralyse the EU completely, or the smaller countries could outvote the larger ones.
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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He rises from the meal with half his body paralysed.
Celtic Mythology
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The condition leaves her body paralysed but her mind untouched.
The Sun
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The accident left him paralysed from the waist down .
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When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair.
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His right arm is still paralysed and when he walks it is with an awkward shuffle.
The Sun
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He plays a quadriplegic who is paralysed from the neck down.
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It saved his life but left him severely disabled: unable to speak, bedridden, and paralysed for eight months before he died.
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The grand coalition has been paralysed by the most reactionary elements of Left and Right.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Greece, a four-hour nationwide strike against war paralysed the country.
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The drug paralyses the nerves so that there is no feeling or movement in the legs.
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Much of the country was paralysed yesterday as police tried to disperse demonstrators before they could form into columns.
Times, Sunday Times
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He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed.
CHAPTER XI
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Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, sticking to duty or insisting on our rights, we can be confused or paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless.
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After Pena was partially paralysed by a stroke seven years ago, horses helped her to recover as she experimented with hippotherapy, deriving from the Greek word "hippos," meaning horse.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Bad experiences while young can leave adults feeling paralysed with anxiety.
The Sun
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The Hitch said ... just read in this mornings newspaper about a 23 year old met police oficer kicked half to death for refusing light some scumbags spliff, he is now totally paralysed. the scon got 8 years a piece and got that cut down to 7 on appeal. how have we got to this point?
Cruel and Unusual
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The Chief Medical Officer's report An Organisation with a Memory set a goal for reducing to zero the number of patients dying or being paralysed by maladministered spinal injections.
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A spokesperson for the cemetery told the newspaper: ‘We want to be pioneers and avoid catalepsy cases, in which a person gets completely paralysed for a few hours and ends up buried as if they were dead.’
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What would you do if you ever became paralysed or incapable?
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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Her legs were partly paralysed in the crash.
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I wonder if anyone read that letter, written on pages torn out of a note-book in wobbly handwriting (my fingers were still partly paralysed) and still more wobbly Spanish.
Homage to Catalonia
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Scorpions which hunt live prey, usually insects or small rodents (not humans), are able to grasp the victim in their pincers and whip over the tail to sting and paralyse them.
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A stroke paralysed half his face.
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Yet over the past three months both have been paralysed by massive demonstrations expressing deep discontent with their governments' performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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They paralyse snails with a lethal injection which liquidises their insides and then they suck out the nourishment.
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When she was discharged she was practically paralysed from the waist up and I had to organise round-the-clock care.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the country was paralysed yesterday as police tried to disperse demonstrators before they could form into columns.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 22-year-old insurance broker collapsed, struggled to speak and was paralysed down his right side when he had a stroke moments after stepping out of the bathroom.
The Sun
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There, doctors paralysed his body to try to give him a chance to recover.
The Sun
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He fractured two vertebrae and was left paralysed from the neck down.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also didn't seem paralysed, and while he was oddly moody in his last weeks, nothing seemed physically wrong.
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The strike has virtually paralysed the island.
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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Most fled but some were paralysed by fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a minor stroke in 1987, which left him partly paralysed.
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The strike has brought the state government to a halt, with both the ministries and the parastatals (government-owned utilities) paralysed.
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He knew he should pull the trigger, but he was suddenly paralysed by fear.
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Every remaining inch of his body just screamed pain at the camera as he lay motionless and paralysed, the empty husk of his body barely making an impression on the air bed they had transferred from the cancer ward.
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The disease left him with a paralysed right arm.
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On the physical level, a car crash which brings you close to the point of death may leave you paralysed for life.
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In 1939 he underwent surgery for a brain tumour and emerged with one side of his face paralysed, his tongue atrophied and his behaviour even more erratic.
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His right arm is still paralysed and when he walks it is with an awkward shuffle.
The Sun
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Her married sister had been paralysed in a road accident.
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Paralysed by questions about the distribution of wealth, Labour stood by while the housing market drove divisions in wealth and social standing.
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The 22-year-old insurance broker collapsed, struggled to speak and was paralysed down his right side when he had a stroke moments after stepping out of the bathroom.
The Sun
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He found Pelagia, apparently paralysed into a contorted posture that had left her neck ricked backwards.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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She took up the sport two years ago after an accident that left her paralysed from the chest down.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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He was absolutely paralysed with shock.
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Johnny shut his eyes and waited, paralysed, for the teeth to bite into him.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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In 2008 he was attacked with terrifying speed by motor neurone disease and is paralysed from the neck down.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lota was paralysed from the waist down.
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Harry Hadden-Paton as Young Marlow is one moment a picture of paralysed inhibition, and the next a rampant lech pawing the ground like an impatient stallion.
She Stoops To Conquer
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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All after a rock climbing accident left her paralysed from the chest down and in a wheelchair.
The Sun
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Throughout history there are stories of soldiers cut down by the enemy after becoming paralysed with fear.
EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
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His right arm is still paralysed and when he walks it is with an awkward shuffle.
The Sun
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We could maybe build a robot like Elliott, but it would have a terrible time, paralysed by indecision and pretty useless at bringing us the right bowl of nibbles when we needed it.
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He had a minor stroke in 1987, which left him partly paralysed.
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The United States faces years of indecisive government, with Washington paralysed by score-settling and legislative gridlock.
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Her legs were partly paralysed in the crash.
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By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe.
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Perhaps he was simply reluctant to reopen a debate that came to define, if not paralyse, much of his second term.
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Some camped it up, some got sleazy, others sat very far back in their cushions paralysed with fear.
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The feet of paralysed people are frequently swollen, but this was particularly bad.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face was left paralysed and he takes daily morphine for pain.
The Sun
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His speech is slurred because the right side of his face is paralysed from the last stroke.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diagnosed with debilitative scoliosis, he was once completely paralysed.
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One was hit in the shoulder, leaving his arm paralysed.
Times, Sunday Times
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They look less like domineering control freaks than out-of-control weaklings, capable of producing endless reports and paper laws but paralysed under the slightest pressure.
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In his final years he was blind and paralysed but was able to continue composing through the devoted assistance of Eric Fenby, his musical amanuensis.
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Beyond the street protests, student demonstrators have also paralysed 16 universities and disrupted 35 others, the education ministry said.
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Railways are paralysed, overcrowded and overpriced through epic incompetence.
The Sun
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I lay splayed out, face down on the hard floor for a minute or two, paralysed by embarrassment and surprise.
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These problems were outlined not to paralyse comparative researchers, but to highlight possible sources of bias in drawing valid inferences.
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Motor traffic was paralysed in much of the city.
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She had a prolapsed uterus and anus, with massive mucous discharges, was paralysed and oedematous from the waist down and her entire body was covered with abrasions and flea bites.
Bedlam
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I stood, paralysed with amazement, in the kitchen doorway, staring at Rudolf's cage.
RESCUING ROSE
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His face was left paralysed and he takes daily morphine for pain.
The Sun
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The drug paralyses the nerves so that there is no feeling or movement in the legs.
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Still partially paralysed by the brain disease Guillain-Barre syndrome, he can only speak with the aid of an artificial voice box.
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Massive protests outside Westminster paralysed the capital's roads for more than 12 hours on Thursday.
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All after a rock climbing accident left her paralysed from the chest down and in a wheelchair.
The Sun
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The practical bearing of this on the therapeutics of _pareses_ and _paralyses_, renders it an important characteristic of the bath.
The Electric Bath
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He is now paralysed down his right-hand side.
The Sun
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A student has been left paralysed for life after "tombstoning" from a cliff face into just three feet of water during the hottest weekend of the year.
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A stroke may have paralysed her body but Kate Thomas's mind is still ticking.
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He was also left paralysed for a week after an injection to take fluid from his spine accidentally hit a nerve.
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People are almost paralysed by fear and a sense of impotence.
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If this administration is bereft of ideas and paralysed by fear, it is also cloaked in dishonesty.
Times, Sunday Times
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By and large people who might give up their seats seem to be paralysed with embarrassment.
Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
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A friend contracted transverse myelitis recently (she's basically paralysed from the waist down and stuck a few thousand miles away).
Times, Sunday Times
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A stroke paralysed half his face.
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The stroke left him partly paralysed.
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The Londoner was paralysed and is confined to a wheelchair.
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A one-day general strike or bandh that paralysed the Indian commercial and industrial city of Bombay on April 25 raises important political issues for the working class.
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He was paralysed in both legs.
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She was left an active brain trapped in a paralysed body.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the country was paralysed yesterday as police tried to disperse demonstrators before they could form into columns.
Times, Sunday Times
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By and large people who might give up their seats seem to be paralysed with embarrassment.
Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
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He will need surgery on damaged vertebrae - but he will not be paralysed.
The Sun
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A man paralysed from the chest down after a hit-and-run accident has taken faltering steps with the help of electrodes implanted in his spine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accident left her paralysed from the waist down.
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She was rushed to hospital with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological disorder that left her paralysed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he had been brought home, paralysed from the waist down, embittered and resentful.
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A paralysed man has walked again thanks to an electronic device that connected his brain signals to electrodes attached to his legs.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist, has a stroke and loses consciousness; on awaking he finds himself paralysed and unable to speak.
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My partner was hit by an uninsured car two years ago and now he is paralysed from the chest down.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we dream the body is usually paralysed, but in this condition the person can move around.
The Sun
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Mr. Chairman and prize goose, -- The feelings which now agitate my sensorium on this Michaelmasian occasion stimulate the vibratetiuncles of the heartiean hypothesis, so as to paralyse the oracular and articulative apparatus of my loquacious confirmation, overwhelming my soul-fraught imagination, as the boiling streams of liquid lava, buried in one vast cinereous mausoleum -- the palace-crowded city of the engulphed Pompeii.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
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The airport is still paralysed by the strike.
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The feet of paralysed people are frequently swollen, but this was particularly bad.
Times, Sunday Times
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On accosting a prey, tarantulas paralyse it by sinking the fangs and injecting venom.
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The stroke left him partly paralysed.
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Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small monkey that had been paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury.
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A stroke had left him partially paralysed down one side and had affected his speech.
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The toxins of certain snakes (e.g. the banded krait) and of bacteria also block neuromuscular transmission and paralyse their victim.
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The strike paralysed government services and led to transport disruption across the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The common factor in the two stories from different sides of the border is the indifference and the fear that paralyses people who witness such crimes.
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The stroke left him paralysed on one side of his body.
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The psychology teacher from Poynton, who has used a wheelchair for almost 20 years after being paralysed in a car crash, has previously parachuted, piloted a light aircraft and plays wheelchair rugby.
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Should they place a ban on the export of ostrich products, it could paralyse the industry countrywide.
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Much of the country was paralysed yesterday as police tried to disperse demonstrators before they could form into columns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eager for relief from the rolling newsflashes on TV, thousands flocked to the cinemas but distribution was paralysed by industrial action and only two new films opened in Paris during the period of unrest.
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Her married sister had been paralysed in a road accident.
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Again, by other chemical substances produced in it, the blood may, without actually killing the invading bacteria, only paralyse them, and cause them to "agglutinate" (that is, to adhere to one another as an inactive "clot" or "lump").
More Science From an Easy Chair
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He claimed that this had worsened the effects of the stroke, which left the dictator with a paralysed left arm and a limp.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Government, with one eye on the ballot box, is paralysed into inaction.
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We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering.
The Sun
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Railways are paralysed, overcrowded and overpriced through epic incompetence.
The Sun
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I almost burst into laughter as I looked at this egregious old guy, as emolliated in his comical caricature of himself as M. de Charlus, paralysed and polite, was tragical.
Time Regained
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The surgeon was forced to admit that this operation would leave Dawn paralysed and wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.
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A stroke paralysed half his face.
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Stranded motorists were rescued from their vehicles by the emergency services after snowdrifts up to 20 ft deep paralysed areas of the Scottish Highlands.
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Yet over the past three months both have been paralysed by massive demonstrations expressing deep discontent with their governments' performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are people paralysed in accidents who, once recovered, go on to have different but whole lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Galvanism produced no effect on the paralysed muscles.
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With Pluto transiting my 4th house, I can see that a phase of my life has come to a close, but I feel quite paralysed and can't see what changes to make.
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Stranded motorists were rescued from their vehicles by the emergency services after snowdrifts up to 20 ft deep paralysed areas of the Scottish Highlands.
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He was partially paralysed by the fall.
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He may not have felt so desperate if poverty hadn't forced him into exile: illegal, paralysed, scratching a living for the smallest slice of pie.
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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The city inched rather than slid towards capture and after a while the shelling all but paralysed our movement.
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He lacked the fear of the infant, the squeamish dissociation which paralyses less manly men.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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If a burro's body doesn't decode its genes correctly the burro's body can't survive: it will get cancer or starve to death or become paralysed.
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Yet the most troubling picture to emerge is that of a coach paralysed by fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spent two weeks recovering in hospital after waking up partially paralysed.
The Sun
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She was paralysed from the waist down .
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Her married sister had been paralysed in a road accident.
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Half paralysed and often unconscious, she was returned to Mombasa and put on a ship for home.
Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
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But the arm is paralysed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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The enzymes and toxins in scorpion venom are used by the arachnid to paralyse its prey and digest its food.
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If Clemenceau was galvanized by his cynicism, Mandel was paralysed by his.
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Then he broke his neck and became a tetraplegic, paralysed from the waist down, and with some loss of use of his arms as well.
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He lost his father when he was just two and his mother at 18, two years after a car accident left her paralysed.
The Sun
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The strike paralysed the underground system as all lines were affected by cancellations.
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There are some new signs of muscle recovery in his damaged legs, which are still partially paralysed.
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Once again it has been paralysed after vandals blocked coin slots with brown mastic.
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But another refugee case, involving a paralysed Sikh, is beginning to test their patience.
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The city and the country are outraged, horrified and almost paralysed with fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed from the waist down.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paralysed as he was, his elder brother Edwin could never father a child.
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Mr. Hugo Swire (East Devon) (Con): While the situation in Zimbabwe is tragically worsening by the hour, the United Nations Security Council remains paralysed by China and by Russia.
Answer the fucking question...
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Still partially paralysed by the brain disease Guillain-Barre syndrome, he can only speak with the aid of an artificial voice box.
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He knew he should pull the trigger, but he was suddenly paralysed by fear.
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He is partially paralysed and can hardly speak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some camped it up, some got sleazy, others sat very far back in their cushions paralysed with fear.
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The surgeon was forced to admit that this operation would leave Dawn paralysed and wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.
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The paralysed 24-year-old fulfilled a lifelong dream by completing the challenge.
The Sun
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When we lose a dear friend, someone we have loved deeply, we are left with a grief that can paralyse us emotionally for a long time.
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Despite being paralysed from the neck down after a car accident, Clive was a strong and independent character, she said.
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The airport is still paralysed by the strike.
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A previously intrepid jockey, for example, may be dismayed to discover just before a dangerous race that his thigh is paralysed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
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They showed, further, that the ganglion cells might be paralysed by nicotine or curarine, so that they would no longer respond to preganglionic stimulation or to the injection of acetylcholine, but that such treatment did not, in the least, diminish the output of acetylcholine caused by the arrival of preganglionic impulses at the synapses.
Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
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Yet over the past three months both have been paralysed by massive demonstrations expressing deep discontent with their governments' performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accident left him permanently paralysed.
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The intrepid soldier is partially paralysed by a back injury suffered in action in Iraq.
The Sun
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When their first pithless tenderness is past, we strip them and aim at hardening them to the temperature of the various seasons, till heat does not incommode nor frost paralyse them.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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The eyes open and so forth, and the person becomes aware of being completely paralysed, and oftentimes it will happen as if elements of dream mentation will intrude into wakefulness, these are the hypnopopic hallucinations.
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Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small monkey that had been paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury.
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It is worth pointing out that a physically paralysed person may be more mentally active and thus more alive than a person with full command of his/her physical faculties.
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He was paralysed all down one side, which is awful for a man who is vain.
Times, Sunday Times
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She stared out at the paralysed, angry traffic, shaking her head.
MAN AND WIFE
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Charcot demonstrated that such paralyses could be cured, and then artificially produced again, by hypnotic suggestion.
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And it would not be affected by problems that can paralyse present railway tracks, like leaves on the line and wear and tear.
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I know there's tradition but someone was paralysed in the mid nineties after jumping in.
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When a person is in the REM phase, there is a noticeable twitching movement of the eyes under closed lids (hence the term rapid eye movement), and the voluntary muscles of the body are usually paralysed.
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The strike paralysed the port.
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The four attackers faced off four helicopter gunships and paralysed a chunk of the capital for most of a day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ‘Stone fish’ has a deadly poison which paralyses you and they look just like stones so can be camouflaged amongst the rocks.
