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• v  make powerless and unable to function
  The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation
• v  cause to be paralyzed and immobile
  The poison paralyzed him
  Fear paralyzed her

• The byzantine regulatory process that helped paralyze the industry for a generation has been streamlined.
• Shine that light on a human target, and you have a wireless taser that can paralyze targets as far away as 2 km.
• Those questions perplexed -- and at times even seemed to paralyze -- Bush for the first months of his presidency.

• paralyse

News & Articles

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• Why Two NFL Coaching Transitions Have Effected Team Anxiety and Confidence
  Every football player with a pulse and a pair of tight pants has felt the familiar squeeze of anxiety clinching tightly around their chest. The pressure to perform amidst the fear of failure can either paralyze or empower a player depending upon one’s character, external perceptions, self-confidence and even experience level. This potent chemical response in the brain and body plays a critical ...
  June 15, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Daniel Ellsberg on the High Costs of Executive-Branch Secrecy
  The president and his underlings, "given a chance to paralyze opposition by practicing secrecy and deception, will use that power."        
  June 14, 2013 - The Atlantic

Quotes

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger in Central Valley Business Times
  People are asking if California is governable. They wonder about the need for a constitutional convention. They don't understand how we could have let political dysfunction paralyze our state for so long,Mr. Schwarzenegger says in his...
• Tony Blair in CTV.ca
  To state a timetable would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the necessary changes we are making for Britain and therefore damage the country. It wouldn't end this distraction but merely take it to a new level,...
• Yulia Tymoshenko in International Herald Tribune
  They wanted simply to paralyze the activities of Naftogazand its supplies to Ukrainian customers, Tymoshenko told reporters in Paris.