wheelchair-bound

For over 10 years, Jimmy and his wheelchair-bound wife, Ellen, were homeless.

Christine Schanes: Why Do We Discriminate Against the Homeless? Christine Schanes 2011

Because he was wheelchair-bound, FDR was confined to his desk for long periods and occupied his time reading the piles of documents in his in-box, other historians speculate.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Ms. Kaiser, who has the powerful upper body that distinguishes the wheelchair competitors, explained that the main difference between wheelchair and traditional tennis is that the wheelchair-bound get two bounces.

On the Outer Courts Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

For over 10 years, Jimmy and his wheelchair-bound wife, Ellen, were homeless.

Christine Schanes: Why Do We Discriminate Against the Homeless? Christine Schanes 2011

The typically stiff white-tie crowd erupted in cheers when wheelchair-bound Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, partially paralyzed by a stroke two decades ago, received the Nobel Prize in literature.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman Receive 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 2011

"You're taking 70-year-old planes and putting them under such stress," said 54-year-old Bob Wogan, a hotel auditor from Scottsdale, Ariz., whose wheelchair-bound nephew was killed by the crashing plane.

Air Shows Draw Scrutiny Jim Carlton 2011

But Asamoah remembers a different time: Before we got help from the Global Fund, these kind of patients in the ARV unit were all wheelchair-bound.

'In 10 years' time, Ghana may not require any aid at all' 2012

She notes that the "intolerance for ideas falling outside the known and accepted tropes of the left is so deep and wide as to render them incapable of listening without a jeering rancorousness to the words of fellow student Anthony Mascheck--a heroic wounded vet arguing in favor of reinstating Columbia's ROTC program after a four-decade ban--who sits, wheelchair-bound."

Incivility on the left 2011

Inspired by a true story, the film has drawn an audience of more than 10 million since its release just over a month ago and has also sparked a timely debate about how the wheelchair-bound are treated in France.

All Aboard for le Cinéma Français Lennox Morrison 2011

See the brilliant Sylvie Testud in Lourdes, a lovely film about isolation and community, in which a wheelchair-bound woman pretends to greater faith for access to her local church congregation.

A Guru of Gardening Practices « PubliCola 2010