Sentence examples for sort of paralysis from inspiring English sources

For the time being, a sort of paralysis had set in among local officials.

Says the songs point to a new sort of paralysis appearing in 1930 which affected both blacks and whites, and which rendered men impotent.

Geraldine had some sort of paralysis, and for almost a year had been able to walk only a few steps with the aid of a stick.

The three of them constantly discuss each other's projects, but, unlike for Ben and Damon, for Casey this led to a sort of paralysis.

An accident on a mountain in Norway, which wounded the muscles and nerves of his leg, led to a series of singular effects: a "sort of paralysis or alienation of the leg, reducing it to an object which seemed unrelated to me".

An old school friend of Merkel's, Hartmut Hohensee, compared it to lapsing into "a sort of paralysis, just hoping winter will pass and the flowers will begin to grow eventually".

A sort of mental paralysis grips many of us on the left, does it not, when we encounter the "immigration" question in conversations about UK politics?

In "The Leftovers," the Christian characters are baffled by the random nature of the disappearances; they suffer a sort of theological paralysis, and this creates some space for all sorts of new cults and intense religious reactions.

That's probably true in a few high-skilled fields, like nursing or biotech, but for a large majority of positions where candidates are plentiful, the bigger problem seems to be a sort of hiring paralysis.

But Mr. Hall said that insurers might hesitate to do that until they were sure people were going to buy coverage, which could lead to a sort of mutual paralysis.

Already a sort of creeping paralysis appears to be overtaking United's transfer business, with a club formerly famous for bold and imaginative captures merely fitting in with the plans of Everton (Marouane Fellaini), Chelsea (Mata) and now Rooney and his advisers.