paralyses

• “With the gift of himself in the Eucharist the Lord Jesus sets us free from our "paralyses", he helps us up and enables us to "proceed ", that is, he makes us take a step ahead and then another step, and thus sets us going with the power of the Bread of Life.”

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• “Such remote effects as I witnessed were mainly the results of the actual destructive lesion, such as paralyses and contraction.”

  Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre

• “Nor is she powerful enough to take, so there arise emotional crises with marked disturbance in bodily energy, and especially symptoms that frighten the onlooker, such as paralyses, blindness, deafness, fainting spells, etc.”

  The Nervous Housewife

• “With one simple gift, Lotus Pedals simultaneously combats gender inequality, economic disparity and the vacuum of formal learning that paralyses Cambodia's development as a nation.”

  The Huffington Post: Michaela Haas: Pedaling Back to School: How Bicycles Bridge the Gap in Education Access For Girls in Rural Asia

• “It takes much the same form as yesterday's session, only this time Matt Feazell is in the audience, which momentarily paralyses me - I know full well that he could be standing up there instead of me and running rings around my shabby performance.”

  Kids Read Comics Report (with preamble)

• “In fact, it "paralyses people with fear and they lose motivation," says Mr. Younger.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Earth Savings

• “This paradox paralyses many people, and suffice it to say that they never move in the direction of the heavenly stars.”

  The Huffington Post: Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love?

• “Now it falls in centimetres and paralyses the country.”

  Weather Chaos Cripples Britain

• “The handcuffs also press on the nerves in the palms, thereby causing paralyses and a loss of sensation in (them).”

  Printing: Israeli Use of Painful Shackling As A Form of Torture

• “Anything over about 32 weeks is a shape we still rarely see portrayed in the media, which is perhaps why it still paralyses people up close.”

  The Guardian: I'm very pregnant - and people are unbelievably rude to me!

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