Sentence examples for a paralyzing influence from inspiring English sources

The Kerry campaign quickly retorted that one of President Bush's advisers, retired Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, had used the word ''nuisance" in the same context just two years ago, asserting that the United States could reduce the threat of terrorism ''so that it is a horrible nuisance, and not a paralyzing influence".

It was more like a paralyzing realization.

"It certainly had a paralyzing quality," he said.

A paralyzing blizzard.

The patient imagines moving a paralyzed body part.

Nowadays, however, designers suffer from a paralyzing phobia.

It has proved to be a paralyzing, polarizing responsibility.

Nor did it seem that either made a paralyzing mistake.

Reef was struck by a propeller, paralyzing his back flipper.

Never reading the email creates a compounding paralyzing dread.

For so many, the subway is a forbidding, paralyzing environment.