A strike called by the opposition has paralysed the city.
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In an instant I was completely paralysed from the neck down.
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The accident, in 2006, left him paralysed from the shoulders down.
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A massive protest on Tuesday morning paralysed traffic in downtown Jakarta.
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He appeared paralysed by the disaster and initially rejected foreign aid.
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The region was paralysed by a protest strike on October 3rd.
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The strikes have brought disruption but not paralysed the transport network.
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That paralysed trading of farm commodities and dragged prices down further.
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MI) said on Tuesday it risked being paralysed by Vivendi's (VIV.
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But the government seems paralysed by the escalating situation next door.
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Paralysed by the scandal, both firms face shrinking sales and margins.
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"Traders remain scared to make a move before they get greater clarity over how the market shakes out," it added, describing the market as paralysed ("New shipping rules leave oil traders strangely paralysed", FT, March 21).
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French railways were paralysed this spring by striking train drivers and conductors.
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The minority government, led by Arseny Yatseniuk, the prime minister, is paralysed.
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This gif shows that at first he seems paralysed for several seconds.
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A general strike largely paralysed economic activity for two days last week.
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The crisis paralysed the government for months and forced Anthony Eden to resign.
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But, paralysed by the legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan, the West held back.
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With Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive suspended, the Westminster government seems paralysed, too.
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Residential construction by the private sector is "practically paralysed", Mr González Contreras says.
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To change this would require new legislation, which is beyond the paralysed government.
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The motorised device is designed to help partially paralysed people, such as stroke patients.
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Politics will be paralysed—this time by negotiating Brexit rather than fights with unions.
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The financial crisis paralysed his government because of his desire to micromanage every decision.
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After nearly four weeks of strikes that paralysed the nation, Juppe dropped the plans.
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Society could seemingly be both characterised by technological abundance and paralysed by cost disease.
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For weeks schools have been closed and hospitals paralysed, as workers strike against austerity.
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Western countries are not ungovernable in the sense of paralysed by riots or crises.
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When lawmaking is paralysed, important work, such as immigration and entitlement reform, is too hard.
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Raj, 213, shrunken and largely paralysed, is carried by his father like a large doll.
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America is paralysed, France is in flames and even sensible Sweden cannot form a government.
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On October 3rd Catalonia, one of Spain's richest regions, was paralysed by a protest strike.
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Such insights help to explain protests that have paralysed central Hong Kong in recent days.
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Unfortunately, Thailand's economic policymakers also exhibit some of the macroeconomic passivity that once paralysed Japan.
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Mr Müller says he is determined that VW not be "paralysed" by the emissions affair.
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Paralysed by fear, the crowd literally pushed me in the direction of the rival fans.
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Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College in America describes a Chinese bureaucracy "paralysed by fear".
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Western countries are not ungovernable in the sense of paralysed by riots or crises.
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That would enable him to race past a paralysed Mr Trump in the later rounds.
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The world's top test team, quite inexplicably, looked paralysed with fear and offered no resistance.
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When he was nine, his father was injured in a mining accident and left paralysed.
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Paralysed by political tensions for years, Lebanon's government has been unable to reform public finances.
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Polio was once endemic in more than 125 countries, where it paralysed 350,000 children every year.
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Philippe had a paralysed leg, a withered right hand and poor eyesight, and repeated himself constantly.
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A more confident speaker these days, Mr Corbyn has lost his paralysed fear of the autocue.
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"Airbus is not paralysed," Die Welt quoted Faury as saying in an interview published on Friday.
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Icy temperatures have paralysed much of the continent, with more than 20 people killed across Europe.
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Rivalry between UN members has paralysed the international community during bloody crises from Bosnia to Syria.
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But in following years it threatened to leave the IWC, saying the group had become paralysed.
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Earlier this year, a cyber attack on Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro paralysed its computer networks.
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Jacobs, was diagnosed with a form of bone cancer in May 2011 and was left partially paralysed.
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Doctors in Kenya ended a three-month strike over pay that had paralysed the public-health system.
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The revolt over unpaid bonuses has paralysed cities and towns across the West African nation since Friday.
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The dispute paralysed the GCC and left its two non-aligned members, Oman and Kuwait, increasingly nervous.
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Jacques Chirac, a previous president, shelved pension reform in 1995 when strikes paralysed the roads and railways.
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Beijing's squeeze sparked pro-democracy protests in 2014 that paralysed parts of the city for 79 days.
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"Our government is overwhelmed, stunned, paralysed like a rabbit in the headlights," she told an election rally.
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In Bajaia workers began a strike that has paralysed operations at the city's port, Ennahar TV reported.
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The EU was said to be paralysed by its divisions and doomed to extremism, destitution and collapse.
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The hybrid lies paralysed in an incubator, and Ruth hopes to restore the animal to full health.
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Like rivals, PSA is meanwhile grappling with fallout from the coronavirus that has paralysed production in China.
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Mr Mitsotakis must deal with twin legacies of the crisis: paralysed banks and cripplingly tight fiscal policy.
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It is genuinely damaging that China's leaders look paralysed in the face of Mr Trump's attacks over trade.
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South Australia suffered a state-wide blackout last September, which paralysed some industries for up to two weeks.
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Paralysed by a war-zone car smash in 2006, he also blogs about his disability and other topics.
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Too paralysed by sectarian and regional differences, it has stood by as its members were engulfed by war.
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If my childhood wading through duckshit and clearing out soupy green ponds for Buttercup would leave me paralysed.
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But there is also a very different America of the moment, one paralysed by fear and self-doubt.
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Political deadlock, including the presidential vacuum, paralysed state institutions and prevented the government from taking even basic decisions.
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Some doctors told me that if I had surgery there would be a danger of me being paralysed.
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Career officials seconded to the NSC and White House talk of a policy machine paralysed by infighting and distrust.
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Any corporate counterpart would be paralysed by the analogous combination of influential clients, subjugated shareholders and a dominant board.
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Even before the Brexit vote in 2016 paralysed Westminster, Britons believed there was a lot of room for improvement.
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She was severely paralysed below the knees, while also losing much of the control in her arms and hands.
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But while cycling near Regents Park in London he had an accident that paralysed him from the chest down.
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In another incident, Indian Railways extended medical assistance to a man who had tweeted about his father's paralysed condition.
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Rivalry between Moroccans and Turks has often paralysed the operation of the Executive, and it could do so again.
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Parts of the countryside are paralysed, as protesters in high-visibility yellow jackets obstruct roads and blockade fuel depots.
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Two children in Ukraine were paralysed by polio in 2000 - Europe's first outbreak since 295, according to the WHO.
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The crisis has paralysed Lebanon, closing banks for a tenth working day with schools and some businesses remaining shuttered.
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It has also been used by a paralysed person to type at a rate of eight words a minute.
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Demonstrators paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fifth day on Friday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transport.
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Hundreds of trees were toppled and roads were submerged, leaving many areas practically paralysed, Malaysian news agency Bernama reported.
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Whereas attempts to seize land under eminent-domain laws are frequently paralysed by protests, the town-planning schemes trundle along.
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When he was at Microsoft, he had an accident that broke his back, leaving him paralysed from the chest down.
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On the one hand it is a legacy industry in drastic need of digitisation and yet paralysed by innovator's dilemma.
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She experienced a seizure during her operation to have it removed, and was left paralysed and with slight brain damage.
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S. tariff rollbacks left traders on edge and currency markets paralysed, ahead of the release of closely-watched manufacturing data.
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S. tariff rollbacks left traders on edge and currency markets paralysed, ahead of the release of closely-watched manufacturing data.
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Had Glencore succeeded, he said that would have blocked negotiations and paralysed the central African country, which is heavily indebted.
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MTR Corp was forced to shut down, an unprecedented move that largely paralysed transportation, after arson attacks on Friday night.
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A corporate culture that treats bosses like gods can leave middle managers paralysed when the main man is abruptly absent.
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The administration of Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, is paralysed, those at the very top of it privately admit.
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Travel restrictions that have paralysed the world's second-biggest economy have left Wuhan and other Chinese cities resembling ghost towns.
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It and other Chinese cities resemble ghost towns due to travel restrictions that have paralysed the world's second-biggest economy.
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That is bound to provoke conflict with farmers; last year they paralysed large parts of the country in protests against eradication.
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Within days, he was confined to hospital, breathing through a ventilator and nearly completely paralysed—able to communicate only by blinking.
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Cities would be paralysed without electricity—the lights would go out, but that would be far from the most serious consequence.
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The protests have at times paralysed parts of the financial district, shut government offices and disrupted business operations across the city.
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Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a cycling accident, yet has managed to feed himself by his own hand.
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Algorithms have done better than brain plasticity at enabling paralysed people to send a cursor to a target using thought alone.
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The fact that a development on the site of Athens's old airport seems paralysed is also a big eroder of confidence.
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There were speeches, rallies and lofty promises to end the schism that has paralysed Palestinian politics for more than a decade.
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If the tribunal is paralysed, there is no barrier to adopting further laws concentrating power and limiting civil rights, he says.
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For example, reactors that produce plutonium could be paralysed; and missile-testing sites destroyed, as Mr Trump (wrongly) claimed was happening already.
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A second—and opposite—problem is sudden, inchoate enthusiasm, such as the green Extinction Rebellion that recently paralysed much of central London.
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Emmanuel Macron, France's president, vowed to press on with reform despite the gilets jaunes protests that have paralysed much of the country.
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And even as the WTO's dealmaking arm is paralysed, the Trump administration is weakening its judicial one by starving it of judges.
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But the project has been paralysed since 2013 by Costa Rica's comptroller after complaints of conflicts of interest in the feasibility studies.
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Peaceful street protests calling for universal suffrage, that paralysed the city for 79 days in 2014, failed to wrest concessions from Beijing.
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Poultry prices have plunged this year and restrictions on moving livestock and extended holidays in many areas have paralysed the supply chain.
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Iraq is involved in ongoing conflict with the Islamic State group, while government instability has paralysed parliament and led to mass protests.
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This week he promised to "unblock" a country paralysed by "obsolete rules", and rally "not the left or the right, but the French".
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NEW DELHI — Massive protests paralysed one of India's top universities, after the president of the student union was arrested on charges of sedition.
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South Africa's economy is limping, violent protests have closed many universities and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) appears paralysed by factional disputes.
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The West and the Sunni Muslim world remain paralysed, unable or unwilling to help the civilian population or the rebel factions they support.
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The political deadlock has paralysed decision-making and crippled basic services in a country already buckling under the strain of 211m Syrian refugees.
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With America in isolationist mood, Britain on the way out and France paralysed, it falls increasingly to Germany to preserve the European order.
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But the Chinese company licenses its chip designs from several American firms and, when that supply was cut off, it was paralysed overnight.
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Like "What We Do Now", Mr Stone's new book is prescriptive, listing organisations, books and courses of action for paralysed liberals to embrace.
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Sainaj, a 55-year-old housewife, could not register her 20193-year-old daughter, who is paralysed and unable to leave the house.
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Residents and local and international aid agencies that support the rebel-held areas say the sustained campaign paralysed everyday life in opposition areas.
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In 2015, it was reported that a 27-year-old Australian woman became paralysed after contracting an MRSA infection that attacked her spine.
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Chronic power shortages make Umm Adil feel paralysed in the face of emergency situations and hopeless about a better future for her family.
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Another 20113 were missing and 177 injured by Typhoon Hagibis, which paralysed Tokyo on Saturday and dumped record levels of rain around Japan.
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The operator's closure on Saturday had largely paralysed most of the city with its network typically carrying about 5 million passengers a day.
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Since he had not formally handed over power to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, his incapacity provoked a constitutional crisis and left the country paralysed.
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That caused political tremors, discrediting the then-president, Miguel de la Madrid, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who seemed paralysed by the disaster.
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The protesters once again paralysed parts of the financial hub as they occupied roads after blocking them off with metal barriers and wooden planks.
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A better way to communicate would be to read the brain of a paralysed person directly and then translate those readings into synthetic speech.
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On December 4th Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's former dictator, was killed outside the capital Sana'a, which has been paralysed by a week of fighting.
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The trend spiked in the two years following big protests calling for full democracy in 2014 that paralysed parts of Hong Kong for months.
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The strikes of 1995 paralysed Paris and forced prime minister Alain Juppe to pull the reforms, a defeat from which he failed to recover.
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But firms say a dramatic slide in the last few weeks has left them paralysed, unable to plan from one day to the next.
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Pro-democracy protesters have paralysed the city for the fourth day, while students across university campuses were preparing for a new clash with police.
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There was "deep frustration and resignation" in the financial sector over how a "paralysed" parliament was handling Britain's departure from the EU, McGuinness said.
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The virus has killed more than 1.07883,200 people in mainland China and efforts to contain it have largely paralysed the world's second biggest economy.
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With growing evidence of the corporate damage from paralysed supply chains and consumer spending, analysts have suggested the global economy was already in recession.
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Demonstrators unfurled umbrellas to defend themselves, mimicking their use in 2014 during the "Umbrella Movement" when protesters paralysed commercial districts with weeks of sit-ins.
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Extinction Rebellion, a climate movement that paralysed parts of London with a civil disobedience campaign in April, said Britain was still not acting quickly enough.
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The move was aimed at ending the schism between Hamas, the militant Islamist group, and Fatah, its nationalist secular rival, which has paralysed Palestinian politics.
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Never before have I seen national governments so weakened by the forces of populism and paralysed by the risk of defeat in the next elections….
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The BBC is paralysed by the fear that it is alienating the young, the "Cs and Ds" and ethnic minorities by lecturing them or appearing snobby.
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By intervening, however, the central government would risk reigniting the passions that flared in 2014 when demonstrators paralysed business districts with sit-ins for several weeks.
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Start with the police and prosecutor's office, which were paralysed for the best part of a decade under Mr Zuma, who faces 783 charges of corruption.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the election in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock that he says has paralysed Britain for more than three years.
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Since 2007 a punishing Israeli and Egyptian blockade has paralysed the economy; tens of thousands of young people have left, seeking work and a future elsewhere.
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A spending increase may well be likely after a powerful earthquake paralysed Japan's northern island of Hokkaido early on Thursday, triggering land slides and power outages.
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The fighting in South Sudan has forced millions to flee their homes, split much of the population along ethnic lines, paralysed agriculture and cut oil production.
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PARALYSED The capital's main airports, Haneda and Narita, stopped flights from landing and connecting trains were suspended, forcing the cancellation of more than a thousand flights.
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A huge strike paralysed much of Paris, particularly its Metro, in protest at plans by the president, Emmanuel Macron, to rationalise France's excessively generous pension system.
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The Crimean Bridge itself has paralysed 144 of the biggest ships that once called at Mariupol but are too tall to slip under its 33-metre structure.
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Since then, two other children, who are not paralysed, have been found to be carrying the same VDPV, which is thus now categorised as a circulating virus.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian ski jumper Lukas Mueller has been left partially paralysed after a crash during practice for the ski flying world championships, doctors said on Friday.
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"In the video the huntsman has been stung and paralysed by the wasp," David Bock, coordinator at the Australian Museum's Search and Discover Department, explained to Mashable.
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Europe's long crisis, which began when European bond yields spiked in 2010 (and which, hopefully, ended with Mr Macron's election in May) paralysed this urge to consolidate.
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The system has allowed a woman paralysed by a stroke to use a robotic arm to take her first sip of coffee without help from a caregiver.
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The polls currently indicate that such a vote could hand the Conservative party a slim majority, which is currently paralysed with a working majority of minus 45.
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CGT members at 19 nuclear power plants voted on Wednesday to join the strike which has paralysed French businesses and disrupted fuel supplies in the past week.
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Months of political unrest, triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in April 2015, have paralysed businesses and other major economic activity.
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That debt has become an important gauge of global liquidity, especially since the 2008 crisis paralysed cross-border lending activity, bringing the global economy to its knees.
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No injuries were reported on the marine park ride, but among those rescued were an infant and a paralysed person, local media, including a local CBS affiliate, reported.
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Paralysed by deeply divided approaches, the UN will likely usher through the same damaging, losing strategy of the last ten years to be repeated for the next ten.
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A strike in January by workers at Audi paralysed the German car maker's factory in Gyor, Western Hungary, and also its main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany, for days.
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Some waved banners reading 'Fossil Banks-No Thanks', days after environmental group Extinction Rebellion paralysed parts of the British capital in protests against the impact of climate change.
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A ten-day strike by lorry drivers in May this year over a rise in fuel prices paralysed the economy and forced the government to restore subsidies temporarily.
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He thought of Pauline, an epileptic with a paralysed arm and leg, who had come to L'Arche-Trosly after 40 years of humiliation by her family and neighbours.
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The power outage across South Australia state on Wednesday, caused by severe storms, has paralysed some of the world's largest sources of copper, uranium, lead and precious metals.
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A former dancer, Gummer was about to start a scholarship at a dance college when complications during a hernia operation resulted in a seizure that left her paralysed.
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"The electricity crisis in Venezuela has paralysed most of the country for significant periods of time, " the Paris-based group said in its closely-watched report on Friday.
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MUMBAI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A spell of incessant rain on Tuesday flooded several low-lying areas and paralysed train services in India's financial capital of Mumbai, officials said.
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Brown, Labour prime minister from 2007 to 2010, said there was rising public anger over what people perceive as an out-of-touch elite and a paralysed parliament.
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Production of phosphates, Tunisia's other main hard-currency earner besides tourism, languishes at less than half of its pre-revolution level, paralysed by miners' strikes and rail blockages.
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Since 2004, 13 paralysed people have been implanted with a system called BrainGate, first developed at Brown University (a handful of others have been given a similar device).
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Verdi earlier this month agreed to mediation in a wage dispute at Berlin's two airports, Tegel and Schoenefeld, that had paralysed air travel to and from Germany's capital.
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Leaders of a rural caste reached a deal late on Monday to end protests that paralysed the state of Haryana and cut water to Delhi's 20 million residents.
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Sir Victor Horsley, one of the fathers of neurosurgery, conducted the first modern surgery for epilepsy in 1886, at the National Hospital for Paralysed and Epileptic in London.
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PARALYSED Tokyo's Haneda airport and Narita airport in Chiba both stopped flights from landing and connecting trains were suspended, forcing the cancellation of more than a thousand flights.
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Hong Kong saw unprecedented flooding and damage during September's Typhoon Mangkhut, with seawater swallowing roads and enveloping residential and office buildings, while public transport networks were largely paralysed.
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In the 1960s the French were aflutter about "Le Défi Américain" by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber; in the 1980s Americans were paralysed by Ezra Vogel's "Japan as Number One".
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And one of the latest ideas in the field is to read and interpret brain activity, in order to restore movement to the limbs of the paralysed (see article).
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Last year a different group of researchers reported that the technique had allowed a paralysed man who was still able to move his elbow to reach and grasp objects.
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After promises that post-handover Hong Kong would enjoy autonomy, Beijing's squeeze has fuelled resentment and in 2014 sparked protests that paralysed parts of the city for 79 days.
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In Brazil the harm to Petrobras, the national oil company, from the oil price has been exacerbated by a corruption scandal that has paralysed the highest echelons of government.
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"It paralysed my left side," she says, as her physical therapist straps her into a complex harness in a large room filled with equipment at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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The conflict has pitched parts of the oil-producing country into famine, paralysed public services and forced a quarter of the population - 3 million people - to flee their homes.
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Nasrallah called last week called for the roads to be cleared and told his supporters not to go into the protests which have paralysed the country since Oct. 17.
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With the pace of new infections slowing, Beijing said restrictions on travel and movement that have paralysed activity in the world's second-largest economy should begin to be lifted.
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With the pace of new infections slowing, Beijing said restrictions on travel and movement that have paralysed activity in the world's second-largest economy should begin to be lifted.
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Demand on carpooling apps surged ahead of a public sector strike across France that paralysed transport and forced commuters to find other ways to travel, or work from home.
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A strike in January by workers at Audi AG paralysed the German car maker's factory in Gyor, Western Hungary, and also its main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany, for days.
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The city of 11 million people remains under virtual lockdown and other Chinese cities resemble ghost towns due to travel restrictions which have paralysed the world's second-biggest economy.
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"Ever since Toshiba had their financial scandals and their financial problems, we've had a parent company that has been paralysed," said Landis+Gyr Chairman Andreas Umbach at a press conference.
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WHEN its tanks rolled into Bangkok in 2014—ousting an elected government that had been paralysed by protests—Thailand's ruling junta promised that democracy would be back in a jiffy.
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At least one person was killed and 216 were missing after the 33 magnitude quake paralysed the northern island, triggering landslides and knocking out power to its 23 million residents.
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It could be a re-run of the strikes that paralysed the country in 1995, forcing Alain Juppé, Jacques Chirac's prime minister, to back down in the face of chaos.
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At worst, it raises fears that violence of the sort that led to the deaths of perhaps 22022,400 people and paralysed the country after the 2007 election could happen again.
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The fighting has forced millions to flee their homes, split much of the population along ethnic lines and paralysed agriculture, leaving the country facing famine, according to the United Nations.
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Carige CEO Paolo Fiorentino said on Tuesday that political risks had paralysed markets when asked about the bank's plan to issue a subordinated bond, a spokeswoman for the bank said.
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Record snowfall of 182 cm (72 inches) paralysed the northern Croatian town of Delnice and rescue services took several hours to evacuate residents in the nearby village of Mrzle Vodice.
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Anti-government protests paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing school closures and blocking highways and other transport links amid a marked escalation of violence.
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The listing plans come as China is gradually recovering from a coronavirus outbreak that has infected over 80,000 people, claimed over 3,000 lives and paralysed businesses and public services nationwide.
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The last person on the continent paralysed by the wild polio virus was a Nigerian child who contracted the disease in 2016, so Africa has probably already eradicated the wild virus.
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After promises that post-handover Hong Kong would enjoy autonomy, Beijing's squeeze has fuelled resentment and in 2014 sparked pro-democracy protests that paralysed parts of the city for 79 days.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell nearly 1% to a one-month low as protesters paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub for a fourth day, closing schools and blocking highways.
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Policymakers in the United States, Europe and Asia resorted to emergency action as the pandemic left their economies virtually comatose, with quarantined consumers, broken supply chains, paralysed transportation and depleted shops.
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The results suggest deepening cracks in an economy already hit by the trade war as the coronavirus forces widespread transport curbs and tough public health measures which have paralysed economic activity.
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With British politics still paralysed over carrying out Brexit 3-1/2 years after a 52%-48% referendum vote in favour of Leave, Johnson is demanding parliament approve an election on Dec.
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With British politics still paralysed over Brexit, 13-1/2 years after a 52%-48% referendum vote in favour of leaving the EU, Johnson is demanding parliament approve an election on Dec.
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A SEMBLANCE of normality returned to São Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, after a ten-day strike by lorry drivers that had paralysed traffic, shut down petrol stations and emptied grocery-store shelves.
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It's an area where incumbents are paralysed by regulation, legacy technology and bureaucracy meaning they are unable to effectively tackle emerging opportunities themselves, so we see a huge opportunity in this space.
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I'd already knocked back three cans of Budget, two Pro Plus and a Lucozade tab, and I was paralysed on the cusp of oblivion, staring into some kind of taurine-induced abyss.
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The last outbreak of piracy cost the world's shipping industry billions of dollars as pirates paralysed shipping lanes, kidnapped hundreds of seafarers and seized vessels more than 1,000 miles from Somalia's coastline.
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The Nobel Foundation last year stopped the Academy from awarding the prize after a string of sexual misconduct allegations against the husband of one of the members effectively paralysed the literary body.
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The OPEC+ deal collapse added to concerns of demand being squeezed by the rapid global spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which has paralysed supply chains and triggered a rout in financial markets.
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JD.com's secondary listing comes as China is gradually recovering from a coronavirus outbreak in January that has infected over 80,000 people, claimed over 3,000 lives and paralysed businesses and public services nationwide.
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Rioting anti-government protesters paralysed large swathes of Hong Kong with wanton destruction on Friday, hours after the city's leader announced that a law against wearing masks would be imposed at midnight.
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Although most of the unrest has been restricted to certain areas in Hong Kong, protests paralysed broader parts of the city for nearly a week in November, including the central business district.
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This year, Beijing extended the holidays and instituted widespread transport curbs and other tough public health measures to limit the spread of the virus, which have paralysed large parts of the economy.
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SUPPLY: The union representing workers of Chilean copper mine Escondida signed a new collective labour contract on Friday, ending the risk of a strike that could have paralysed the world's biggest copper mine.
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China warned of a second wave of snow and sleet hitting northern, central and eastern parts last week after record snowfall paralysed parts of the country in the most severe weather this winter.
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"The world is an uncertain place, and that is concerning, I think it's also the big topic here at Davos, but that doesn't mean that we then should get paralysed," he told CNBC.
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It comes as China's e-commerce industry is slowing, with Alibaba's annual Singles' Day shopping blitz recording its weakest sales growth since its 2009 debut, and Hong Kong's business district paralysed by demonstrations.
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Economists say the impact of anti-government protests over the past eight weeks is already worse than in 2014, when a so-called "Umbrella revolution" paralysed the city's financial district for 79 days.
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More than three months of protests have at times paralysed parts of Hong Kong amid running street battles between protesters and police who have responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
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Globally, the escalating virus pandemic has prompted policymakers to slash rates and open liquidity taps to stabilise economies left almost comatose due to quarantined consumers, broken supply chains, paralysed transportation and depleted shops.
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Four years ago Chris Palmer was left paralysed after a long battle with cancer, leaving him fearful he wouldn't be able to walk his daughter, Heather, down the aisle on her wedding day.
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The union representing workers of BHP-operated Chilean mine Escondida, signed a new collective labour contract on Friday, ending the risk of a strike that could have paralysed the world's biggest copper mine.
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The political system is all but paralysed, the country is divided into warring ideological tribes, the civil service is overwhelmed and, in the event of no deal, Britain would be staring into the abyss.
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Thousands of environmental activists paralysed parts of central London on Monday by blocking Marble Arch, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge in a bid to force the government to do more to tackle climate change.
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Since the swearing-in, Legco has been paralysed by bickering and brawls among legislators over whether the two should be allowed to swear in again, and whether they should be admitted to the chamber.
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The revised constitution would give the president new powers and scrap the office of prime minister, preventing leadership conflicts and unwieldy coalition governments of the sort that have paralysed political life in the past.
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Demonstrations dominated by young faces have paralysed the country in recent days, forcing Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's government to rush out measures aimed at quelling anger and rescuing an economy in free fall.
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India ordered telecoms firms to block the use of social networks in the state of Kashmir, which has been paralysed by violent protests that the security services have been attempting to quell by force.
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In September Deng Pufang, Deng's eldest son, defended his father's legacy in a speech to the China Disabled Persons' Federation, of which he is the honorary chairman (he was paralysed during the Cultural Revolution).
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BHUBANESWAR, July 29 (Reuters) - Members of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have mounted protests that have paralysed production at one of India's biggest coalfields following a deadly accident last week.
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With British politics still paralysed over carrying out Brexit 3-93/2 years after a 52%-48% referendum vote in favour of leaving the EU, Johnson is demanding parliament approve an election on Dec.
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LONDON (Reuters) - To solve the Brexit riddle that has paralysed British politics for three years, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just three main options: an election, a new deal or a no-deal Brexit.
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Benedek Javor, a Hungarian opposition member of the European Parliament, says the Commission has been "too soft" and checks on the executive's ability to step into national politics mean the system is "artificially paralysed".
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At one point Sakuraba slammed in a kick to the shin that had Royler Gracie clutching his leg, paralysed with pain and it seemed as though Sakuraba was on the verge of a TKO.
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The Italian broadcaster said on Tuesday it risked being paralysed by Vivendi's aggressive stake-building, as the French media group has accumulated a quarter of the Italian broadcaster's shares in just over a week.
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He began work by removing a section of sural nerve from Kevin's right ankle and attaching it to the right side of his face, running it underneath his upper lip, to the paralysed left.
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Campaigners from student activist network People & Planet waved banners reading 'Fossil Banks-No Thanks', days after environmental group Extinction Rebellion paralysed parts of the British capital in protests against the impact of climate change.
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On YouTube you can find tragic videos documenting injuries that have left cheerleaders paralysed, and on my own team it was unusual if we didn't go to a competition without one person on crutches.
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In contrast, it has only been a year since Takeuchi was involved in a serious road accident that has left him paralysed below his chest, and reliant on a manual wheelchair to get around.
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Former student leader Lester Shum, who helped organize Sunday's rally, said the number of protesters was the highest since pro-democracy protests in 2014 that paralysed parts of the financial hub for 79 days.
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Photo: Winson WongRioting anti-government protesters paralysed large swathes of Hong Kong with wanton destruction on Friday, hours after the city's leader announced that a law against wearing masks would be imposed at midnight.
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Thanks in good part to the need for unanimity among EU member countries, the Brussels machinery can be cumbersome or even paralysed by irreconcilable differences, as became evident during the second Gulf war in 2003.
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The protesters' tactics have evolved significantly since the "Umbrella" movement demonstrations in late 2014, which paralysed parts of the former British colony for 79 days but did not win concessions from Beijing on greater democracy.
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Last week, the central bank took more subtle action, rolling back parts of its policies that have hurt banks, paralysed Japan's bond market and distorted stock prices even as they failed to ignite healthy inflation.
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Sectarian squabbles have paralysed the parliament while crises mount outside: a reeking rubbish mountain, daily electricity and water outages, internet price-fixing and the quiet sell-off of some of the city's last green spaces.
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Earlier this year its crane-drivers, often referred to as "the kings of the terminal", went on a 24-hour strike that paralysed large parts of the port for the first time in 13 years.
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Hong Kong anti-government protesters paralysed parts of the city this week, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing amid some of the worst violence since protests escalated more than five months ago.
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Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing school closures and blocking highways and other transport links to disrupt the financial hub amid a marked escalation of violence.
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Khan, who led a weeks-long occupation that paralysed the government quarter of Islamabad in 2014 after rejecting Sharif's runaway election win, has said the new protests would bring a million people to the streets.
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The common currency got a lift after European Central Bank Governing Council member Ignazio Visco said policymakers stand ready to take further steps if needed in response to the virus, which has paralysed Italy's economy.
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It was the first time since August that the Civil Human Rights Front - organiser of million-strong marches earlier in the year that paralysed the Asian finance centre - had received authorities' permission for a rally.
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Berri is one of Lebanon's most powerful figures and named the finance minister and others in the government which is grappling with a financial crisis and would be paralysed were he to withdraw his backing.
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But with a promise of jobs and greater trade links after Britons opted in June for Brexit, May is likely to win parliament's approval, triumphing over an issue that has paralysed successive governments in the past.
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The technique Dr Ajiboye and Dr Kirsch employed to achieve all this, which is called functional electrical stimulation (FES), has been used in monkeys and has also permitted paralysed human patients to move a robotic arm.
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After promises that post-handover Hong Kong should enjoy a high degree of autonomy, Beijing's squeeze has fuelled widespread resentment and in 2014 sparked pro-democracy protests that paralysed parts of the city for 79 days.
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At the same time, the central bank lifted caps on withdrawals and deposits of foreign currencies for individuals and companies importing essential goods, easing forex controls imposed a year ago that had all but paralysed trade.
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It is thought that over the years many prisoners have been executed while still conscious and in great pain—but unable to cry out because they have been paralysed by the second drug in the sequence.
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After bitter exchanges between Polish and EU officials, the EU's executive asked Warsaw to explain laws that have all but paralysed the work of the top constitutional court and put public media under direct government control.
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ROHTAK, India (Reuters) - A political ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shouted down on Tuesday by a crowd angered by rioting in Haryana that destroyed businesses, paralysed transport and cut water supplies to metropolitan Delhi.
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Petrobras, the state-controlled oil giant and Brazil's biggest investor, is in the midst of a corruption scandal that has paralysed spending: the forgone investment may have reduced GDP growth last year by one percentage point.
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Only in 2007 did an "Executive of Belgian Muslims" start playing that role effectively, and it has been paralysed by internal quarrels, or by quarrels with the government, quite a lot of the time since then.
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This part of the country was once paralysed by an armed insurgency, which began when locals protested that little of the wealth generated from the oil extracted on their lands made its way into their communities.
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Extreme fare surges often lead to outpourings of public criticism: when a snowstorm paralysed New York in 2013, celebrities, including Salman Rushdie, took to social media to rail against triple-digit fares for relatively short rides.
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Hong Kong shares dropped 1.8% to a one-month low as protesters paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub for a third day, with transport, schools and many businesses closing after violence spread across the city.
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OSLO, March 26 (Reuters) - Norwegian aluminium maker Norsk Hydro may have lost more than $40 million in the week that followed a ransomware cyber attack that paralysed parts of the company's operations, it said on Tuesday.
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Three months of protests have at times paralysed parts of Hong Kong, a major Asian financial hub, amid running street battles between protesters and police who have responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
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Italy's state lender CDP is seeking to broker a truce between the Italian telecoms operator's two warring investors, France's Vivendi and U.S. activist group Elliott, to end a boardroom battle that has paralysed the group, sources said.
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But while investigations drag on, five big firms across sectors from sugar to cars are almost paralysed as their owners struggle to sign pay checks or orders to import materials because their bank accounts have been frozen.
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What Dr Chang is doing is analogous to the now well-established field of using brain-computer interfaces to allow paralysed individuals to control limb movements simply by thinking about what it is they want to do.
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The CEO also said the unit would not be able to make up this year losses incurred because of a recently ended interim management accord with Vivendi which Mediaset says had paralysed key commercial decisions at Premium.
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Hong Kong prepared for more clashes on Wednesday as anti-government protesters paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of violence.
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In 2014, the military staged their 12th successful coup since the country became a constitutional monarchy in 1932, and khaki army uniforms replaced the yellow and red shirts of the protesters that had paralysed Bangkok for months.
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The nationwide protests have paralysed Lebanon at a time of deep economic crisis - banks were closed for a 10th day on Tuesday along with schools and businesses, with the pegged Lebanese pound weakening on a black market.
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JAKARTA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Flooding caused by torrential rain paralysed large parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, as major streets were inundated with murky, brown flood water and power supplies cut in certain parts of the city.
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BEIRUT/EASTERN GHOUTA, Syria (Reuters) - It's the dead children that still haunt Abu Ghassan, who was blinded for more than a month and paralysed for weeks by a nerve gas attack four years ago in a Damascus suburb.
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LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Dollar-denominated bonds issued by Lebanon's government rallied on Friday on the news that the country's leaders will meet with the aim of finding a breakthrough in a political crisis that has paralysed government.
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The mainstream parties will strive to keep his maverick movement out of power, but they may be forced to form unnatural and fractious coalitions of right and left that become paralysed by the incompatibility of their component parts.
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In 1982, after a close friend had died in a trapeze accident, he had spent a mad few months hardly sleeping or eating, thinking up more than 250 devices to help disabled or paralysed people perform daily tasks.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Members of the Jat community reached a deal late on Monday to end their protests that paralysed Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, a protest leader and a police source said.
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In Hong Kong, where anti-government protesters paralysed parts of the financial hub for a fifth day on Friday, the Hang Seng index gained 0.15%, but was on track for its worst weekly performance in nearly four months.
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PARIS, May 23 (Reuters) - The ongoing anti-labour reform strike that has paralysed some sectors of the French oil industry and disrupted fuel supply has not impacted output at Exxon Mobil's two refineries, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
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In a study led by Bob Kirsch of Case Western Reserve University, published in the Lancet this year, BrainGate was deployed artificially to stimulate muscles in the arms of William Kochevar, who was paralysed in a cycling accident.
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WEEKEND PLANS FOR THE AIRPORT Demonstrations have at times paralysed parts of the city, a major Asian financial hub, amid running street battles between protesters and police who have responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons.
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More than three months of protests have at times paralysed parts of Hong Kong, a major Asian financial hub, amid running street battles between protesters and police who have responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
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Three months of sometimes violent protests have at times paralysed parts of the city, a major Asian financial hub, amid running street battles between protesters and police who have responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
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Between the three-day weeks of 1974, when a miners' strike led to electricity being rationed, and the "winter of discontent" in 1979, when a range of public services were paralysed by industrial action, Butskellism passed over the horizon.
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Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro, the victim of a cyber attack in March that paralysed its IT systems, posted an 82% drop in first-quarter core profit on Wednesday and said a rise in global uncertainty could impact its markets.
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Hurricane Harvey, which brought record flooding to the U.S. oil heartland of Texas and killed at least 35 people, has paralysed at least 4.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of refining capacity, according to company reports and Reuters estimates.
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Japan, which had to burn record amounts of the dirtiest fossil fuel to generate power after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 paralysed its nuclear sector, seeks to slash its carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2030 from 2013 levels.
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BAHADURGARH, India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Leaders of the Jat community reached a deal late on Monday to end protests that paralysed Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, after winning a pledge of more government jobs.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters paralysed parts of the Chinese-ruled city for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing schools to close and blocking highways as students built barricades and stockpiled makeshift weapons, setting the stage for campus showdowns.
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May's struggle to find a Brexit proposal that satisfies her party and negotiators in Brussels has left her government paralysed and facing the prospect of Britain crashing out of the world's largest trading bloc next year without a deal.
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Critics say the changes, which prompted Brussels to launch the rule of law procedure for the first time in its history, have paralysed the court's work, making it difficult for judges to review, let alone challenge the government's legislation.
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OSLO, April 30 (Reuters) - Norsk Hydro, the victim of a March cyber attack that paralysed its computer networks, said the hacking would likely cost the aluminium maker up to 450 million Norwegian crowns ($52 million) in the first quarter.
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The protesters responded to the break-up of the sit-in by declaring a state of civil disobedience, instructing supporters in various sectors of the economy to stay away from work in a move that has partially paralysed Sudan.
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"If China cuts off oil supply, North Korea would not survive on its own for three months and everything in North Korea would be paralysed," said Cho Bong-hyun, who heads research on North Korea's economy at IBK Bank in Seoul.
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The protesters, some with cling film wrapped around their arms to protect their skin in the event of tear gas, once again paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub as they occupied roads after blocking them off with metal barriers.
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Since the referendum two of Britain's three main parties have lost their leaders, Theresa May has fought a botched election, the cabinet has been paralysed by infighting and Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's hard-left leader, has become prime-minister-in-waiting.
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Some of his oddities were based on pure hoaxes — the traveling exhibit which established the real P.T. Barnum's reputation as a showman was a blind, nearly paralysed, elderly former slave woman he marketed as being George Washington's 171-year-old nurse.
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NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A strike in the Indian capital by thousands of Uber and Ola drivers demanding better pay has paralysed the ride-hailing services that have grabbed business from traditional taxi and rickshaw operators with their cheaper fares.
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CONAKRY, April 25 (Reuters) - Riots have paralysed a major bauxite mining hub in Guinea, Africa's top producer, as residents erected barricades and burned tyres to protest against high pollution levels and power cuts, government and company officials said on Tuesday.
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LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Differentials for Nigerian and Angolan crude held unchanged on Thursday, as sellers refused to cut their offer prices despite a growing surplus of oil and expensive freight rates that have paralysed spot activity, trading sources said.
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OSLO, June 5 (Reuters) - Aluminium-maker Norsk Hydro , the victim of a cyber attack in March that paralysed its IT systems, posted an 82% drop in first-quarter core profits on Wednesday and said global market uncertainty could impact its markets.
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HONG KONG, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing school to close and blocking highways and other transport to disrupt the financial hub amid a marked escalation of violence.
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HONG KONG, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fifth day on Friday, forcing schools to close and blocking some major highways, as university students barricaded campuses and authorities struggled to calm the violence.
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In China itself, the world's biggest importer of crude oil, new cases also rose on Friday from the day before even as Beijing presses on with efforts to contain the spread that has largely paralysed the world's second-biggest economy.
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BEIRUT, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Lebanon's economy is losing at least $70 million-$80 million a day - about half its usual income - due to the crisis that has paralysed the country, caretaker economy minister Mansour Bteish told broadcaster MTV on Wednesday.
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KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, June 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of doctors across India went on strike on Friday to demand better security at hospitals days after junior doctors in the city of Kolkata were attacked, leaving services in many government-run health facilities paralysed.
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It is equally easy to imagine headlines, years from now, that call President Trump a revolutionary who took America down the path to hard-edged nationalism, as it is to imagine a hapless incompetent paralysed by factional in-fighting and plunging poll ratings.
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The impeachment battle has paralysed the activity of government in Brasilia, before the Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro in August and as it seeks to battle an epidemic of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in newborns.
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The songs about depression capture the dull, impotent rage of being bored and paralysed by your own low mood, and the songs about mania are a fired up retelling of all of the arrogance, hubris and revelation involved in a delusional state.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - As most developed economies turn their back on coal, Japan is burning record amounts for electricity generation and plans to use even more of the dirtiest fossil fuel to fill the gap after the Fukushima disaster paralysed its nuclear sector.
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BEIRUT, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Security forces are trying to persuade protesters to reopen roads across Lebanon through peaceful means but will not use force if they refuse, a security source said on Tuesday as the country remained paralysed by anti-government demonstrations.
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There are good arguments for getting rid of ranking and yanking: the ritualistic decimation of the workforce on the basis of a single number routinely paralysed businesses in the run-up to each year's reviews, killing creativity and setting workers against each other.
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An Italian source close to the situation said Del Vecchio, Italy's second-richest man, was in no mood for compromise even if that meant leaving the combined group essentially paralysed until the end of the power-sharing accords in two years' time.
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Lam has vowed to mend social divisions, but the opposition camp said reconciliation would be futile when at least 20 activists, including the leaders of the 2014 protests that paralysed parts of the city for months, have been charged since her selection.
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BERLIN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - World and Olympic champion Kristina Vogel, who was paralysed following a training crash in June, said on Wednesday she was ready to tackle her new life but has had no contact with the Dutch rider involved in the collision.
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" In an editorial published alongside the study, Steve I. Perlmutter, an associate professor at University of Washington in Seattle, said the research is "groundbreaking as the first report of a person executing functional, multijoint movements of a paralysed limb with a motor neuroprosthetic.
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They started surgery in the ER. He had two broken legs, a broken arm, a broken foot, several broken ribs, and a crushed vertebra that could have paralysed him, as well as two collapsed lungs, a swollen brain, plus several other ruptured organs.
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BUDAPEST, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Audi workers in Hungary reached a deal on a wage increase on Wednesday, ending a strike that has paralysed the carmaker's plant in Gyor, western Hungary, since last Thursday, the AHFSZ trade union said on its Facebook page.
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"I never expected the video to get so big, I'm glad it did from the point of view of getting the safety message over - if it saved someone from being paralysed somewhere else in the future it can only be a good thing," he said.
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LISBON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Portuguese exports slumped nearly 9 percent in November from a year earlier and over 7 percent from the previous month after a stevedores' strike in the port of Setubal paralysed shipments of cars from a Volkswagen plant, data showed on Wednesday.
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OSLO, June 28 (Reuters) - Norwegian labour unions and oil rig owners agreed a wage deal on Friday, averting the outbreak of a strike that would have halted some of the Nordic country's crude production and paralysed exploration activity for new resources, the unions said.
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SYDNEY, March 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve and its global counterparts moved aggressively with sweeping emergency rate cuts and offers of cheap dollars in a bid to combat the coronavirus pandemic that has roiled markets and paralysed large parts of the world economy.
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The preceding "recapture" of Aleppo in late December was deliberate timing, as Russia knew that the US was going to be paralysed by the political transition period in Washington and that Obama was unlikely to shift course in Syria policies in his last months.
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DUBLIN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Irish farmers paralysed parts of central Dublin for the second time in as many months by parking over 100 tractors in the streets on Wednesday in a protest against the government on the first day of its re-election campaign.
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With no sign of the protesters backing down and the military trying to use the election to restore order, the political system is paralysed at a time when urgent action is needed to revive the economy, hit by a fall in vital oil revenues.
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Read More: The Paralysed Man Who Can Control a Robotic Arm With His Thoughts When combined with other features like predictive text and an onscreen keyboard, healthy test subjects were able to quickly send simple emails after just three sessions learning how to use the device.
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NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A deal was reached on Monday night to end days of protests by a rural caste that paralysed the north Indian state of Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, a protest leader and a police source said.
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HONG KONG, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Finance firms in Hong Kong urged staff on Wednesday to seek safety or work from home as anti-government protests paralysed the city's business district for a third day in one of the biggest disruptions faced by the Asian finance hub.
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The impeachment battle has paralysed the activity of government in Brasilia, just four months before the country is due to host the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and as it seeks to battle an epidemic of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in newborns.
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The WTO's Appellate Body, which has acted as a supreme court for international disputes, became paralysed this week, after the Trump administration's blocking of new appointments for the past two years meant its membership fell below the quorum necessary to make new rulings when two members' terms expired.
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Russia and the Syrian army say they are responding to stepped up attacks by jihadists on government-held areas and deny indiscriminate strikes that medics and rescuers say have killed dozens of civilians in recent days, knocked down at least five medical centres, and paralysed day-to-day life.
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Tai, who was released on bail in August, said while leaders of the Umbrella movement were in some ways unprepared for the massive response at the start of the rallies that paralysed parts of the financial hub for 79 days, they helped to sow the seeds for future protests.
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The implication of the Cambridge-Trieste research is that graphene-based electrodes could, in future, be safely be implanted in the brain — offering promise for the restoration of sensory functions for amputee or paralysed patients, for example, or to help individuals with motor disorders such as epilepsy or Parkinson's disease.
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The minority government is paralysed: it lacks the numbers to get anything meaningful through Parliament; the cabinet is unable to agree on anything, or to disguise the fact; and the party is terrified of ousting its feeble leader, lest the subsequent civil war let in the newly rampant Labour Party.
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China, which had been showing some early signs of a recovery in flight capacity, on Thursday ordered airlines to sharply cut the number of flights in and out of the country out of concern that infected travellers from overseas could reignite the coronavirus outbreak that paralysed the country for two months.
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Since the multi-billion-euro takeovers of Europe's Arcelor and Corus by Indian giants Mittal and Tata in 13 and 2007, dealmaking in Europe's steel industry has been all but paralysed as cash-starved producers battled the global economic crisis and a slowdown in China that encouraged it to export cheap steel.
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We have seen the opposite in our prime minister whose policy is based on knee-jerk reactions, not only in an unnecessary referendum on the EU which has all but paralysed Westminster for three months, but on education, airport runways, high-speed trains, the Arab crises, renewable energy…the list is unending.
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There, he collaborated with Ren Xiaoping, an orthopaedic surgeon at Harbin Medical University, on dogs, monkeys and human cadavers, and planned, last year, to graft the head of a patient paralysed from the neck down onto the body of a deceased donor—only to be stopped by China's health ministry at the last minute.
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It's very interesting that business people, who didn't dare oppose nationalism… Since the results have been so catastrophic for Barcelona, for Catalonia, there are business owners that have begun to take a stand… And then there are many Catalans who aren't in favour of independence, but who were as if paralysed by an inferiority complex in relation to nationalism.
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That is bad for America—and the world May 13th 2017 The impulsiveness and shallowness of America's president threaten the economy as well as the rule of law Jul 1st 2017 Washington is paralysed, and the man in the Oval Office is making a bad situation worse Aug 5th 2017 There are no good options to curb Kim Jong Un. But blundering into war would be the worst Aug 19th 2017 After Charlottesville.
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