paralyzing

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• Robber flies, and many other families including the horse flies, have devised a way to paralyze their prey, or parts of it, before settling down to eat from or on them.

• So we have to arm people with the facts, but I’ve never been more unsure and paralyzed by individual coverage decisions than I have been in the last two or three months.

• Yes, the filibuster paralyzes governance and leaves terrible environmental, social, political, and economic problems to fester.

• They are paralyzed between their commitment to their agenda and their fear of what Republicans might do if they retake power in a majoritarian Senate.

• “The impression is that of a country in stalemate, paralyzed by politics and tones that are foreign to its tradition,” Veltroni said.

• So will letting Rebecca and Rhonda get hitched paralyze republican governance in the United States in some similar way?

• They may have been afraid, and in most cases no doubt were, but their fears did not paralyze them.

• His sister killed herself as a teenager, and her death continues to paralyze the Donovan boys in intriguing ways.

• “A destructive cyberattack could paralyze the nation,” Panetta said.

• For most people who are already in a vulnerable state, that kind of shock is more likely to discourage and paralyze them.

• For a moment the horrible possibilities seemed to paralyze every nerve and thought.

• Its direct effects are to blunt the faculty of correct thinking, and to paralyze the power of vigorous action.

• The retirement of the leaders of the House of Commons served to paralyze the government's resistance.

• We know that if we stick a pin into a certain spot we shall paralyze the left forefinger.