They can break the paralysis of budget battles, year upon year, or they can concoct yet another smoke-and-mirrors solution that solves nothing.
It may look obvious now, with hindsight, as Freeview booms, but at the time it took guts, and Duncan was the person to break the paralysis, because of his close involvement with the launch of Freeview while at the BBC.
In confirming this offer Araqchi has gone a long way to break the paralysis that gripped previous rounds of negotiations, in which no party would show its cards first.
"It will just be establishing the order that everybody now misses". Mr. Gorbachev's plan to revamp the Government seeks to break the paralysis of power that has resulted from republics and local governments countermanding orders coming from Moscow.
As moving as the young man's words are, there have been other moving words over the years — other moving moments that seemed destined to break the paralysis somehow, and save lives.
The central government's first move to break the paralysis in decision-making, by changing rules about foreign direct investment in retail enterprises, may paralyze the government even more.
And third, it would break the parliamentary paralysis that has long dogged Brexit.
Which is why it's such a relief, an exhilarating joy, to break the clammy paralysis of worry and place yourself at last in real physical danger.
Mariano Rajoy, leader of the conservative People's party (PP), was returned to office following a second investiture vote on Saturday, after the Spanish Socialist party (PSOE) chose to abstain to break the political paralysis and avoid a third election.
These younger, more traveled members could help break the political paralysis that has left Japan settling for muddle-through policies ever since the economic bubble burst in 1989, according to "Can Japan Come Back?" a report issued here on Friday by the Pacific Council on International Policy.
