Sentence examples for paralysing effect from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

Today workers are all but stuck, thanks to the paralysing effect of the housing bust.

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

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

A later decision by the Treasury Solicitor that the inquiry was, in fact, subject to the Act had the effect of paralysing decision making.

The most devastating blow to morale took place on Day 55, when the Medical Superintendent, Dr Lukwiya himself, died from Ebola, which had the effect of "paralysing operations in the hospital".

A range of handheld directed energy and laser "rifles"—capable of producing lethal bursts of plasma, paralysing electro-magnetic pulse effects, and infa-red "pain rays"—are also currently under development for use by both military and police forces.

Will the insurgents manage to overcome their differences long enough to form an effective opposition to the pro-integration behemoths of centre-right and centre-left – to become, in effect, a kind of European Tea Party, paralysing the European parliament in much the same way as ultra-conservative Republicans have paralysed Washington?

The seven goals they put past Brazil have had the adverse effect on my initial prognosis of paralysing fear, and in fact awakened some ethereal belief that there is no way Germany can produce another performance like that.