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  • v  make powerless and unable to function
  • v  cause to be paralyzed and immobile
News & Articles

  • Mozambique police arrest top Renamo general, bus attacked
    By Marina Lopes (Reuters) - Suspected opposition Renamo guerrillas attacked a bus in central Mozambique on Friday, and police arrested a top Renamo general who threatened this week to 'paralyse' key transport routes in the southern African nation. The bus shooting, in which an elderly woman was wounded, and the detention of Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta is likely to inflame ...
    June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Mozambique's Renamo threatens to paralyse vital coal railway
    By Marina Lopes MAPUTO (Reuters) - The Renamo opposition party, a former guerrilla organisation, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line out of Mozambique's vast coalfields in an effort to hurt the government. Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta told a news conference in Maputo that disruption of the Sena line connecting the northwest region of Tete to the Indian Ocean ...
    June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Mozambique's Renamo threatens to paralyse coal export line
    MAPUTO (Reuters) - The opposition party Renamo, a former guerrilla organization, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line leading from Mozambique's northwest coalfields. Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta told a news conference in Maputo the disruption of the Sena line from Tete to the Indian Ocean port of Beira would last "as long as it takes". "From Thursday June 20 ...
    June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Samir Geagea in Reuters India
    What is happening is a revolution and a coup attempt,Christian leader Samir Geagea told al-Jazeera television. "This is direct terrorism to paralyse the country."
  • Tony Blair in guardian.co.uk
    To state a timetable now would simply paralyse the proper working of government, put at risk the necessary changes we are making for Britain and damage the country,Mr Blair said.
  • Michel Aoun in Aljazeera.net
    If the prime minister and his camp continue to monopolise power, there will be an escalation of popular pressure,Aoun told Associated French Press. "We will paralyse the government ...... we will force it to go into a deep coma."

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