paralyse

Sadly, America already seems to be failing to keep that promise, paralysed by the politics of transition.

Neroli Fairhall's athletic career appeared to be finished when she was paralysed from the waist down following a motorbike accident.

He eventually died of a combination of liver disease and a neural illness that gradually paralysed his body, starting with his feet.

After a year of economic turmoil and academic trauma, most business schools seem to have become paralysed.

Visiting western politicians and businessmen say bureaucrats appear paralysed as they wait to see what will happen next.

At the end of a period in which the debt row left Washington all but paralysed, Congress broke up for the summer.

He felt as though his bones were breaking through his chest while the rest of his body was paralysed.

The Egyptians knew that damage to the brain could cause other parts of the body to become paralysed.

IT IS all too reminiscent of an epidemic that paralysed Beijing and other parts of China in 2003.

Others crammed into bars or gathered at home for the match, which left the country paralysed for two and a half hours Sunday evening.

Her cries, were paralysed And she was pale with fatigue My scarlet tears ran as sweet blood streams in her veins.

In defence, one officer said he'd been paralysed by fear over reports of widespread crime following the hurricane.

The fund appeared to be paralysed by the financial crisis.

Militant unions in Paris forced the closure of a railway station, Saint-Lazare, for a day, and have paralysed public transport in Marseille.

But another refugee case, involving a paralysed Sikh, is beginning to test their patience.

Walking out to bat in that first game, I felt paralysed by a sense of pressure.

They let the paralysed walk and give care workers extra strength to carry the old and infirm to a wheelchair.

Some steps will lead to greater things. But as long as you sit feeling paralysed, I can assure you nothing will change at all.

Unfortunately the budgetary problems that have paralysed both the eurozone and US do not help the case.

Germany huddles in the shadow of its experience during the 1930s and has been paralysed by an obsession with moral hazard.

Until the covenant is rewritten the industry is likely to continue to be paralysed and will remain so until new houses spring up.

Theone-year-old did not break any bones in the smash - but suffered nerve damage which left his two front legs completely paralysed.

Yang Mama now cooks for her son's boyfriend, washes the two men's clothes and even helps to take care of the boyfriend's paralysed father.

On a more practical level, it would help disabled and paralysed people use computers, artificial limbs, motorised wheelchairs or robots.

Giorgio Napolitano, head of state, said that market fears that Italy would be paralysed for a prolonged period were groundless.

Without a bail-out, the financial system would have remained paralysed, making the subsequent recession much deeper and longer.

Then he was pronounced a cure and could return to life again with the lower half of his body from the hips down paralysed for ever.

That such a timid initiative should have divided and paralysed Congress for weeks is the most disappointing thing of all.

He is too paralysed in his upper body to be able to operate ReWalk.

Doctors are now finding ways to put these nerves to good use, by rewiring them to control prosthetic limbs or reanimate paralysed limbs.

His eventual goal is to link the system with a muscle stimulator that could allow paralysed people to walk.

"When people get caught up in a crisis they become paralysed and lose perspective. They can behave in very peculiar ways. "

He was in any event severely crippled, even for a time paralysed and incontinent.

In a worst case scenario , the EU could be paralysed or destroyed by the rise of xenophobic and nationalist extremism .

Nepal's government signed a peace accord with an ethnic alliance, settling a strike that had paralysed the south of the country.

I'd been stuck in Seoul for weeks, paralysed by the language barrier and the heat and humidity and the crowds.

He had been paralysed in a rugby accident, and wanted to die, but could not kill himself without help.

This stimulator would be directed to generate electrical impulses to move paralysed limbs.

Development, and in particular badly needed construction, is paralysed, often in parts of the UK that need it most.

For the last three years, the country has been paralysed by a political gridlock that has put its future on the line.

But now his pot belly is gone, his left arm looks nearly paralysed, and intimations of his mortality abound.

Romania, the second-largest east European EU member, is paralysed by a political feud between the prime minister and president.

If you take DCA, it may not work, you could still have the cancer, and you'll be paralysed.

'I'm p-paralysed with happiness, ' she said.

Far from steering Italy skilfully past the many dangers that confront it, his government has become almost totally paralysed.

But the admiral cannot have foreseen the astonishing sequence of budget negotiations that have paralysed Congress this past year.

Children who survived recall that everyone was paralysed by fear and confusion as flames and poisonous fumes filled the air.

The most turbulent have been on the island of Guadeloupe, a French department in the Caribbean that has been paralysed by a general strike.

The five most common themes are falling, being chased, feeling paralysed, being late and the death of a loved one.

These results show that computer games could be an important tool in the recovery of paralysed limbs after stroke.

Mr Vavi says that the alliance is now paralysed. Some analysts believe it may break up.

Things changed when their forearm and hand were paralysed by a restriction of blood flow and anaesthetized by injection.

and the Water Rat, paralysed and staring, saw at last but a distant speck on the white surface of the road.

If safety and the environment always did come first, economic activity would be paralysed.

People can become paralysed by too much variety and wracked with uncertainty and regret about whether they have made the right decision.

It was based on the assumption that the Security Council was paralysed and that America had ruled out military action.

Businesses are paralysed, hospitals are overwhelmed and roads are gridlocked as people try to flee.

In Indiana, the state legislature is paralysed too, after its own Democratic flight.

Its state-owned banks are churning out new loans while banks around the world are paralysed.

The operations of government might become paralysed if democrats made big gains in the Legislative Council elections in September.

It involves implanting a chip in the brain which allows paralysed people to move a computer cursor by thinking in a certain way.

It is akin to someone paralysed with a spinal injury standing up and walking.

Mr Abhisit was ushered into power after months of demonstrations paralysed the previous administration.

Corruption and squabbling inside the ruling Orange coalition have paralysed governance.

China is helping, but the eurozone and Japan seem paralysed, while most emerging economies cannot now risk aggressive action.

But many debt products, particularly asset-backed instruments, remain paralysed.

To react is perfectly normal. If you stick a pin in me I shall react unless I am paralysed.

Meanwhile, the actors who could, in principle, take steps to reverse this dismal course of events are largely paralysed.

Now, the city will be paralysed immediately without water and electricity.

And now his government is paralysed by its attempts to fend off the scandals.

For three days, while the Swedish king lay in a fever, his generals, paralysed by their unwillingness to take any initiative, did nothing.

In Argentina, a farmers' strike over export taxes paralysed trading at the country's main agricultural market.

London Underground workers have repeatedly paralysed transport in the city.

The idea of electrically stimulating the muscles of paralysed people is not new.

This is not the record of a paralysed administration.

Public companies in particular are so besieged by 24-hour commentary and instant opinion that many managers find themselves paralysed.

A half-paralysed white sneering fellow--rather handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes.

Paralysed to pour edge in road, see, catch car light for night whizz, my soul, there is no place to inhabit.

Corruption has "paralysed the government, " reckons the chief executive of one of India's most prestigious firms.

Many road and rail links in Bangladesh are paralysed as opposition activists call a blockade to demand reform.

The Panel discussed the paper on the support and assistance for paralysed patients living in the community.

The strikes have not prevented people getting to work altogether, nor paralysed the country.

It makes us feel helpless, mentally paralysed and profoundly dissatisfied.

Daniel, a former rugby player, was paralysed from the chest down when his spine was dislocated in a scrum in March 2007.

The grouping is beset by many of the policy conflicts and tensions that have paralysed the Doha round.

As The Economist went to press, Mr Wolfowitz still had his job, but his position was precarious and his institution paralysed.

A series of scandals over the past year has paralysed the Congress party-led government and severely dented India's appeal to investors.

Albania has been paralysed since last June's general election, which Mr Rama claims was stolen by Mr Berisha's Democratic Party.

The patient was partially paralyzed ( paralysed ).

Hamida Banu, 42, is a mother of seven children. Her husband, who had been paralysed for years, just died in early May.

But when Nur, his beloved son, is paralysed after a diving accident on holiday in Alexandria, the balance is upset.

Sometimes they are overly protective of themselves, especially when they are called crippled or paralysed.

Paralysed by some spider that had crept into those teeny-tiny shorts and sunk its fangs into him.

Shortly after killing two dogs 15 years earlier, he had mysteriously become paralysed and had partly lost his hearing.

THE capital of Iran hosts about 12m people, is poorly planned, often paralysed by traffic, and notorious for its seismic activity.

France has not been so paralysed since 1995, when three weeks of strikes forced the government to back down from similar reforms.

Unions say the strike paralysed operations at Papua province's Grasberg facility, where gold is also mined.

The device should help paralysed people to be more independent by tapping into their brain waves.

When it comes to rewiring the limbs of paralysed patients in order to reanimate them, however, a very different approach is required.

Eurocrats in Brussels are only faintly aware of living in a paralysed country.

A frequently had the virus to invade the computer, the computer hasbeen paralysed two.

In the US, one experiment in nerve regeneration involves cutting a big nerve in a rat's leg, leaving its leg paralysed.

A stroke paralysed half of his face.

The electricity failure paralysed the water supply.

Having checked the parameters of the apparatus , the paralysed parasite went to the paradise by parachute .

That country was paralysed by political rivalries.

In years to come, scientists want to reconnect the brain to paralysed limbs to enable them to function again.

The system is paralysed, and it is starting to look like Black Wednesday in 1992.

A cat paralysed after being hit by a car is learning to walk again - by taking swimming lessons.

China's judicial system is totally corrupt and paralysed.

But the rows over history that once paralysed Latvia's politics are abating.

In 1997 Dr Goffer, an Israeli engineer, suffered an accident that left him partially paralysed.

Companies in the process of doing deals put their plans on ice, paralysed by fears over refinancing.

His left arm was paralysed and he could not move it.

Paralysed with a stroke?

In one incident, a 21-year-old man was paralysed after he was stabbed repeatedly outside a bar in Hackney Road.

First, the economy. The euro crisis has paralysed Europe.

"The whole public sector apparatus is paralysed. Nothing is getting done, " says Yannis Stournaras, director of IOBE, a think-tank.

It would allow paralysed people to lead more independent lives.

He starts from the observation that even those who are otherwise paralysed can sniff.

Both legs of the old man were paralysed.

In particular, in the 1930s, monetary policymaking was paralysed.

Mingled with the dust he fell, all paralysed by flesh and bone.

Dr Goffer says that his aim is to enable paralysed people to lead a normal life.

Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.

Perhaps most worrying is Albania, which has been paralysed since a disputed election in 2009.

People paralysed from their injuries are still being brought to hospitals.

Its members, above all Germany, the most important player, seem paralysed by domestic politics.

Mr Houben, a former martial arts enthusiast, was paralysed in 1983.

accident left her paralysed in both legs.

After a stroke, his left arm and leg were paralysed .

A paralysed woman gets herself a drink.

They didn't know what was going on inside of me and they were frustrated with my behavior because I was inexplicably emotionally paralysed.

His limbs were paralysed from the hips.

The country was paralysed by a series of strikes.

Last year, he suffered a stroke that left him paralysed, unable to feed himself and dependent on state-Provided medical care.

For example, the hands of paralysed patients have been stimulated to enable them to grasp and turn door knobs.

Last year an Austrian company called Guger Technologies released a system that uses EEG to allow paralysed patients to type.

In 1988, polio paralysed nearly 1000 children every day worldwide.

Biomedicine: Doctors are rerouting nerves to give patients more natural control of prosthetic arms and bring paralysed limbs back to life

A victim of an incurable disease, Stephen Hawking is almost completely paralysed,

The correlation of urological infection with the types of evacuating catheter used by paralysed patients caused by cerebral hemorrhage

A systematic approach would reduce the uncertainty that has paralysed financial markets;

A comparative study of computer and retinoscopy optometries under the ciliary muscles paralysed

The many saints have paralysed themselves in concepts and ideological prisons;

a nation paralysed by a seizure of terror following the assassination

You paralysed my body with a poison kiss

I really want you mama, you got me paralysed