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How to use the word paralysis in a Sentence?

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The political system faces great paralysis.

Ihsan Al-Shammari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This remains the longest political deadlock [ in Iraq ] since 2003, the political system faces great paralysis.

Ihsan Al-Shammari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was not even close to being worth the wait, the paralysis-by-analysis reflected here is exactly what Brian Fallon would expect from a commission made up mostly of academics, including several diehard conservatives who are fully content with the status quo.

Brian Fallon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is an important technological milestone for a person who can not communicate naturally, and it demonstrates the potential for this approach to give a voice to people with severe paralysis and speech loss.

David Moses

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can not afford to have a Democratic Party that devours The Progressive Caucus and any attempt at ideological cleansing is going to end in political paralysis and gridlock. We have to proceed with a unified front and with a sense of urgency.

Ritchie Torres

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There’s a danger ... the Biden administration will fall back into the old habit of a piecemeal, quid pro quo approach in which the United States takes only limited steps and demands Cuban concessions on its internal politics, that’s a formula for paralysis.

William LeoGrande

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It's one of the first thing they should have checked in Omsk. There are a number of symptoms that accompany this poisoning including various types of muscle paralysis, contraction of the pupil in the eye, blood tests, and so on.

in Berlin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Weve argued that American families deserve better than this partisan paralysis where Democrats literally obsess over impeachment and obstruct everything else, this very morning, for example, the Speaker gave a speech on national television to push forward her rushed and partisan impeachment. Not one word, not one word on the outstanding legislation the American people actually need. Nothing on USMCA or the NDAA or funding for our armed forces. Its all impeachment, all the time.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A lot of that is a very intuitive manifestation of a lot of my own stuff, maybe it's more universal than I thought. Maybe a lot of people feel that way, but I personally get stuck a lot, and I think that just seeing what that paralysis looks like can actually be freeing, because sometimes it's really useful to see it from the outside, the commitment to an action or inaction, how frustrating that can be. Especially to someone who is like,' Any choice you make right now will be better than not making one'... The most salient thing about the show and especially about this character for me is that.

William Jackson Harper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you have rare episodes of sleep paralysis, but havent been seen by a sleep specialist, make sure your sleep hygiene is solid, for example, sleep paralysis can be a sign that youre sleep deprived.

Shelby Harris

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

During sleep paralysis, you have two aspects of REM sleep going on when youre awake.

Brian Sharpless

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This may explain why [sleep paralysis] comes in waves or bouts, episodes might coincide with a period of stress.

Daniel Denis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If these things dont help, and youre having episodes that are becoming somewhat more frequent, see a sleep specialist to see if theres any underlying medical disorder that might be causing the sleep paralysis.

Shelby Harris

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

With the Trump election, the change in my students, the sense of grief and fear and paralysis in the room, became palpable.

Petersen Boring

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With an exhaustive investigation complete, would the country finally unify to confront the real challenges before us ? Would we finally be able to move on from partisan paralysis and breathless conspiracy theorizing ? or would we remain consumed by unhinged partisanship, and keep dividing ourselves to the point that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Vladimir Putin agents need only stand on the sidelines and watch as their job is done for them ?

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The issue about an extension is whether that really solves anything, the last thing people in the UK and Europe want is Brexit paralysis. I think people want to move on.

Jeremy Hunt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This should change our thinking about people with paralysis, it's phenomenal. This new knowledge is giving us the tools to develop new strategies and tools for recovery in people with chronic spinal injuries.

Susan Harkema

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not the first time an individual with severe clinically complete paralysis has walked with assistive technology without the help of a therapist, but it's tremendously important that in more cases the potential of these approaches can be demonstrated.

Monica Perez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The law cannot work retroactively. So this legislation... is clearly unconstitutional... and could lead to paralysis at the Supreme Court.

Marek Chmaj

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The paralysis of the Appellate Body would cast a long and deep shadow on the continued operation of the multilateral trading system as a whole.

Singh Bhatia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

Brené Brown

added by scott_j
5 years ago

Davutoglu's likely early exit as party leader and PM constitutes another episode that show that Erdogan's dominance over the AKP and the executive is absolute and unchallenged, in the short term policy paralysis will prevail and then, once a new party leader is elected, a more incisive effort to amend the constitution could ensue.

Wolfango Piccoli

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In the short term policy paralysis will prevail and then, once a new party leader is elected, a more incisive effort to amend the constitution could ensue.

Wolfango Piccoli

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is political paralysis in Iraq. There is no government in Iraq.

Kate Gilmore

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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