0 present participle of paralyse --
1 to cause a person, animal, or part of the body to lose the ability to move or feel: --
That is, the disputes which are at present bedevilling and paralysing this country.
The air in our cities is impossible to breathe, cars are flooding our streets and lorries are paralysing our motorways.
That means the triumph of the back-room politics of the big countries, and this will have a paralysing effect.
Everyone is agreed as to the paralysing effect of industrial strife, and everyone wants to find a remedy for it.
It is a speech which exemplifies the sort of creeping common sense which is paralysing and making dull this country.
Clearly, it would be inefficient to the point of paralysing communication to require interlocutors to examine every mutually manifest assumption in the course of producing and interpreting utterances.
The main problem in undertaking such an enterprise is the paralysing lack of complete sources.
Only a further transformation made possible by practical faith allows reason to overcome the paralysing internal conflicts between impartiality and prudence.
