(1) Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief for Tehran from crippling economic sanctions.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(3) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
(4) The former make a strongly positive net economic contribution and enable key industries to fill the skill shortages that if left unchecked can cripple growth.
(5) These protests appear to follow on from a crackdown in Ukraine's neighbour Russia over the screening of LGBT-themed films, which saw the Bok o Bok (Side by Side) event targeted by officials, before winning an appeal against a crippling fine .
(6) Netanyahu and his rightwing cabinet will wait for the "crippling" action against Tehran anticipated by secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
(7) The prompt recognition and management (Tables 8-1 and 8-2) of chemical burns of the upper extremity may prevent injury to the deep structures of the hand and may make the difference between satisfactory rehabilitation and crippling deformities.
(8) But senior officials at the European commission in Brussels disclosed that a compromise was in the air to save Greece and halt contagion by levying a tax on banks in the eurozone – opposed by Berlin and proposed by Paris – as well as a long-term Greek debt rollover stretching for decades, and other measures aimed at reducing Greece's crippling debt level.
(9) More than one million people in Britain may be suffering from constant, crippling headaches because they are taking too many painkillers, experts say.
(10) As yet no cure for this crippling complication is available.
(11) Eventually, when the truth did hit her, she said she felt crippled by guilt and contemplated suicide.
(12) But if it were to be economically crippled, “its participation in multinational missions under Nato’s aegis would be severely limited or withdrawn altogether”, said Thanos Dokos, the director general of Greece’s international relations thinktank, Eliamep .
(13) The disease was progressive, with crippling neuropathic deformities of the hands and feet.
(14) Since then support for the party has doubled amid a crippling austerity regime and rising unemployment rates, which have seen a third of Greeks fall below the poverty line.
(15) Failure to diagnose properly may result in extensive pulmonary fibrosis or bronchiectasis and condemn the patient to a lifetime as a pulmonary cripple.
(16) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
(17) Crop-producing areas have been inundated, dealing a crippling blow to the agriculture-based economy and threatening a food crisis.
(18) After the first year postgrafting, the various components of the immune systems of most healthy marrow recipients begin to work synchronously, whereas the immune systems of recipients with chronic graft-v-host disease (GVHD) remain crippled.
(19) Although it is "financially crippling", Charlotte Tagney is paying around £200 a month on top of independent school fees for her son James to attend the 11 Plus Academy and see a private tutor once a week to boost his chances of getting into grammar school in Maidstone.
(20) Based on a sense of joint responsibility, the German Society for Cripple Care (today: German Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled) was founded already in 1909, which, in the 80 years of its existence, has both considerably influenced pertinent legislation and herself been influenced in terms of constitution, membership and issues dealt with by the broadening of the rehabilitation philosophy.
Paralyzed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Paralyze
Example Sentences:
(1) Two days later the lambs were delivered, given sheep surfactant, paralyzed, and their lungs mechanically ventilated.
(2) Dogs were anesthetized, paralyzed, and mechanically ventilated.
(3) To examine the effects of focally cooling three areas (rostral, intermediate, and caudal) of the ventral medullary surface (VMS) on respiratory oscillations in cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity, 12 cats were anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated with 7% CO2 in O2.
(4) The changes in the levels and distribution of gamma- and epsilon-subunit-specific mRNAs in toxin-paralyzed muscle correlate well with the spatial appearance of functional fetal and adult AChR channel subtypes along the muscle fiber.
(5) The spectrum of disabilities attendant to laryngeal paralysis range from mild hoarseness to complete upper airway obstruction depending upon the static position of the paralyzed cord or cords.
(6) The arrangement of the ventral root afferent fibers was investigated in anesthetized and paralyzed cats.
(7) Neural activities were recorded in decerebrate, vagotomized, paralyzed, and ventilated cats.
(8) Intracellular recordings and labelings with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) of inspiratory neurons were performed in decerebrate, paralyzed and ventilated rats.
(9) For all mutants the virus dose required to paralyze 50% of the infected animals was significantly higher than of the parent strain Barty.
(10) Experiments were carried out on 36 urethane-chloralose aneasthesized, paralyzed, vagotomized and artificially ventilated rabbits.
(11) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(12) Visual response latencies and rise times of X and Y ganglion cells recorded in the optic tract of anaesthetized, paralyzed cats were measured during repeated stimulation with sinusoidal gratings.
(13) All five stages are identified and are the same regardless of whether the animal is unparalyzed or is paralyzed and artificially respired.
(14) Inspiratory bursts were recorded from the phrenic nerve in Macaca fascicularis monkeys paralyzed and ventilated by means of a servoventilator driven by the inspiratory discharge of the phrenic nerve.
(15) The spinal cord injured patient has been the focus of clinical and research efforts to restore functional movement and obtain therapeutic benefits by electric stimulation of upper-motor-neuron paralyzed muscles.
(16) A transient phase of weak immunity was detected prior to the onset of paralysis when induced by relatively low paralyzing doses of polysaccharide.
(17) After 3 months of training it was found that endurance increased from 8 min at a work rate of 0 W to 30 min at a work rate of 40 W. Compared to the cardiovascular responses in non-paralyzed subjects, computerized cycle ergometry was found to be associated with higher relative stresses for a given level of absolute work.
(18) It is important for clinicians to recognize that benign knee joint effusions are likely to be encountered in paralyzed patients.
(19) Successful electrotherapy depends upon an early beginning, the selective stimulation of the paralyzed muscles with exponential current at a sufficiently high intensity under isometric conditions and by avoiding overstretching of the muscles.
(20) Following intubation of the trachea the patient was paralyzed and mechanically ventilated.