Sentence examples for paralysed state from inspiring English sources

Transport in flood-hit parts of Sichuan and neighbouring Yunnan province has been paralysed, state media say.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are bankrolling the paralysed state.

Is the BBC in such a petrified or paralysed state, so badly decayed, that it is beyond repair?

But the case says as much about the paralysed state of Canadian politics as it does about what South Africa is calling a "preposterous and laughable" refugee claim.

At that point I wouldn't care if he slapped me hard as the terror of being in that paralysed state, totally helpless, is overwhelming.

By a huge effort of will, he finally managed to break out of his paralysed state with the intention of attacking his visitor, only to find himself delivering a right hook to thin air.

Simply by stalling, they could thus paralyse state government until the majority party made some concession to one of the Republican lobbies.

Corruption has all but paralysed the state, with neither the president nor his party doing much to fight it.

Radicalised and expanded, the movement all-but paralysed the state capital for six months chanting "Ulises is already finished" - undeterred by drive-by shootings that killed several at the barricades.

And big projects now attract 4.4 bidders on average, according to the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism, compared with only 1.3 when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was president.This should serve as an inspiration for India, where corruption scandals have paralysed the state machinery, as well as for China, where the government spends quickly, but badly.

This murder occurred in the midst of a bloody turf war within the Sinaloa Cartel that paralysed the state capital in 2008 and 2009.