Immobilizing

The document is classified, but could include offensive techniques such as immobilizing an enemy's command-and-control networks. ❋ Jeff Bardin (2009)

Or immobilizing city hall, a department store or a stockholders meeting with a flood of demonstrators demanding justice. ❋ Bill Moyers (2012)

How do we continue to bear witness without losing heart, without falling into immobilizing despair? ❋ Lisa Bennett (2011)

At 34, she had trouble eating because of necrosis in her jaws; thereafter her ailments became ever more painful and grotesque and immobilizing, as if her well-being had been entrusted to Samuel Beckett. ❋ Joseph O'Neil (2009)

This seemed to be quite immobilizing and I also noticed how rapid his breathing was. ❋ Maggie Sergio (2011)

However, "immobilizing" the gel in the condom, so the vasodilator only touches the wearer during sexual intercourse, was the clever part. ❋ Tommy Stubbington (2011)

He receives training in espionage, in combat, in all manner of spycraft, but when a mysterious “iron fog” begins immobilizing entire CITIES, the time for training is over … ❋ Unknown (2009)

He shoved her down, hooking her cuffs to a bar in the back of the chair, immobilizing her. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

Points were gained by getting the ball into a corner in one of the L-shaped legs at each end of the playing field and immobilizing it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In seems supermax correctional facilities are using modern technology to carry out a medieval form of punishment, immobilizing the mind and body with physical restraint and constant surveillance. ❋ Gregory Sholette (2010)

A study in Neurology investigated how the brain facilitates that adjustment and found that immobilizing an arm with a cast or sling appears to slightly reorganize the brain's sensorimotor system, reflecting a transfer of motor skills to the opposite arm and hand. ❋ Jeremy Singer-Vine (2012)

January came and went pretty fast where we live, with a lot of it buried underneath bitter, immobilizing cold and snow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile, the Fed can claim that it also is "immobilizing" reserves that, if loaned into the economy, could be inflationary. ❋ George Melloan (2011)