When such institutions emerge they will be stable until another shock upsets the underlying political balance of power and paralyses their adaptive capacity.
The small female wasp stings the host larva, paralyses it, and deposits 10 to 30 eggs on or beside the host larva.
This can work directly, as in a strike that paralyses a workplace, or indirectly, through discouraging customers, clients or tourists from providing patronage.
Separations and realigned family constellations test the limits of personal coping strategies, while political polarisation easily paralyses any effort for collective action.
Levamisole is a cholinergic agonist and paralyses the body musculature.
I regard expenditure on armaments as not merely waste, but as a thing which in itself paralyses the very forces that create wealth.
He is quite right about that, but that sentence paralyses rapid local authority or police action.
But that form of restriction only paralyses the export trade.
