London Underground workers have repeatedly paralysed transport in the city.
Sniffing may have applications for the healthy, as well as the paralysed.
But now his pot belly is gone, his left arm looks nearly paralysed, and intimations of his mortality abound.
He said: "I have to give Will Smith some of the credit because he helped me at a time when I was paralysed with despair."
He moved to Vancouver, Canada, six years later, whilst out fishing, Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralysed.
He realised when he came round after his accident, which had caused his heart to stop and his brain to be starved of oxygen for several minutes, that his body was paralysed.
She is paralysed in both arms.
A half-paralysed white sneering fellow — rather handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes.
His eventual goal is to link the system with a muscle stimulator that could allow paralysed people to walk.
You'll probably be taken in the street at a traffic light and you can't rely on passersby to notice or help. Often they are paralysed by shock.
Middleton was paralysed in 1949, aged 23, and doctors gave her a slim chance of survival. However, she holds the world record for the longest time spent in an iron lung.
This is not the record of a paralysed administration.
Walking out to bat in that first game, I felt paralysed by a sense of pressure.
Strikes that had paralysed South African public services, including schools and hospitals, for almost three weeks were "suspended" to allow time for further negotiations.
A few months later the mother and daughter attended a conference on "locked-in syndrome" - the condition of active minds utterly enveloped in paralysed bodies unable to show any human response.
The audacity of the chief's proposal nearly paralysed them.
On 13 March 2005, a 20-month old boy in Sukabumi district, West Java, was paralysed by polio.
Suddenly, i heard your step behind me. Without turning round, i knew that i was about to hear your beloved voice directly addressing me. I was almost paralysed by the expectation, and my heart beat so violently that i thought i should have to stand still. You were at my side.
Dr Goffer says his aim is to enable paralysed people to lead normal lives.
It was a stump pipe affair with gaily coloured keys. It made a noise like a paralysed duck, and my three-year-old son immediately decided it was a thing of beauty and bound to be a musical joy forever.
"The whole public sector apparatus is paralysed. Nothing is getting done," says Yannis Stournaras, director of IOBE, a think-tank.
Both legs of the old man were paralysed.
The electricity failure paralysed the water supply.
Having checked the parameters of the apparatus, the paralysed parasite went to the paradise by parachute.
But as the German finance minister wheels himself in to talk to the foreign media (he has been paralysed from the waist down since an assassination attempt in 1990), he cuts a lonely figure.
Last summer, for instance, the state Senate was paralysed for five weeks because a Democrat defected (temporarily, it turned out) to the Republican Party.
