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How to use the word paralyzed in a Sentence? Page #3

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Now there are people who cannot work. But frankly, if your back hurts, you can work in a call center, all right? There's a lot of different jobs, there are people who are paralyzed, quadriplegic, kidney dialysis, amputees who can't work. I understand that. There's going to be some people. But almost everybody who can work should work.

Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In a stroke patient they have had an injury to one side of their brain that causes their hand to be paralyzed. So we are taking a signal from the uninjured side of the brain and decoding that intention to move.

Eric Leuthardt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The PPC is a rich source of signals that can be used to determine the goals of a paralyzed subject, these signals can be used to control 'smart' robotics and computers that can work out the details of movement of external devices such as a robotic limb.

Richard Andersen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I still suffer panic attacks and night terrors as a result of what Mr. Cosby did to me, i stand here to take back my power and confront the fear that has paralyzed me for so many years.

Lili Bernard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you look at Guinea, almost 85 percent of the potato trade with Sierra Leone is done by women, but because of the border closure, this activity was completely paralyzed, in Liberia (the impact of Ebola) crudely translates to families not being able to put any food on the table for a minimum of 15 days every year for the next three years.

Ayodele Odusola

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Your body is paralyzed, you feel everything, your body slowly shuts down over a period of minutes based on the drug cocktail that's given to you. Whereas a firing squad, you reach the death obviously in three to five seconds.

Paul Ray

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I couldn't move or speak. I felt paralyzed, he flipped me over and sexually assaulted me, i felt like a rag doll and like a real-life blow-up doll for him.

Linda Brown

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

(There) probably would be a completely paralyzed banking system (after Grexit).

Holger Schmieding

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My dear, dear beloved father was a pediatrician when kids were becoming paralyzed from polio and dying from mumps and measles, so all I can say is all of our children, including Bella, are vaccinated.

Karen Santorum

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The thinking of the Huangpu District government and related department heads was paralyzed, with a serious lack of understanding of guarding against public security risks, preventative and response preparation was sorely lacking, early warnings on the night were weak, and the response measures were not suitable.

Xiong Xinguang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Being able to extract and read the neuronal code from higher-level areas of the brain could also lead to important breakthroughs in the emerging field of neural prosthetics, where people who are paralyzed used their thoughts to control objects in their environment.

Sebastien Tremblay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

As I’ve said continually over the last two years, if the Governor’s single-payer plan places another burden on already overtaxed Vermonters, we simply cannot afford it, our State cannot afford a $2.6 billion bill, and Vermont cannot afford to continue down this path of uncertainty. We’ve already spent far too much money exploring this idea, and the discussion has paralyzed our business community.

Phil Scott

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

Anthon St Maarten

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.

Michael Brown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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