Sentence examples for have a paralysing effect from inspiring English sources

Though few libel cases reach court – and fewer are won – the simple threat of action can have a paralysing effect on free speech.

It can have a paralysing effect on performance".

Frans Timmermans, the Dutch centre- left Europe minister, told the Guardian the Tory plans would have a "paralysing effect on Europe … There is more chance of a snowball surviving hell than the EU restarting debates on treaty change".

The power of memory is indeed great and heavy, and at times has a paralysing effect.

It is hardly surprising that such a fundamental disagreement about the nature of the state has a paralysing effect on governance.

Their leaders are faced with important elections next year and the rise of Eurosceptic movements in both countries is having a paralysing effect.

Disenchantment with the authorities and all their works, balanced by mounting prejudice against the dark-skinned peoples of the Caucasus - especially Chechens who run a powerful mafia in Moscow - has had a paralysing effect.

This viewpoint can have a paralysing grip on depressives, sometimes to a psychotic extent – but perhaps it haunts everyone.

Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them.

His partner has a paralysing fear of death.

"Such direct attacks have a disastrous effect on the affected individuals, but the wider effects of a climate of fear and instability can paralyse whole education systems," he said.