Sentence examples for unable to move a from inspiring English sources

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Congratulations, the hellish nightmare of being alive and unable to move a bookcase is finally over!

But the story goes further than that: it is also claimed that he was conscious all along, but simply unable to move, a well-documented phenomena called "locked in syndrome".

He has already used scans to show activity in regions associated with deception, distinguishing between people hypnotised into being unable to move a leg and others pretending not to be able to do so.

Most of these studies involved exposing animals to low or high temperatures for a week or more and then testing their ability to withstand extremes of cold or heat until they are unable to move: a death sentence in the wild.

Once his nurses had tucked him up, Judt lay as he was, unable to move a limb or scratch an itch, entombed "like a modern-day mummy, alone in my corporeal prison, accompanied for the rest of the night only by my thoughts".

A new brain-imaging test may, however, change that.Nick Ward, of University College, London, and his colleagues, have found a marked difference between the pattern of brain activity displayed by a person pretending to be unable to move a leg, and that displayed by the same person when he is genuinely unable to move his leg.

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In 2014, children started showing up in emergency rooms across the country unable to move an arm or a leg.

He realized it was sleep paralysis after seeing a Google image of a man unable to move, with a demon sitting on his chest.

Both feats are remarkable because Gleason sits in a wheelchair, unable to move hardly a muscle.

Strapped in a brace, unable to move freely, a trademark energetic Adams could only just about get herself out of bed to use the toilet - let alone throw flurries and combinations in the ring.

This is the basic dramatic situation: a black playwright, in 2014, is somehow unable to move beyond a likeable 1859 work, named after a forgotten word once used to describe nonwhite people in the same terms as breeds of livestock.

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