1.   After residents were shocked and scared into virtual paralysis by the attacks, schools, workplaces and shopping malls bustle again.

2.   In Sacramento, a complex political dynamic has created a virtual paralysis over the issue.

3.   In the two months since the crime, a virtual paralysis has gripped women of the twin communities of Thatcher and Safford.

4.   One clear byproduct of the split has been a virtual paralysis of the legislative branch of government.

5.   Czech President Vaclav Havel is known to advocate the switch, which seems expedient ahead of a vote designed to end two years of virtual political paralysis.

6.   Concern for the safety of peacekeepers and the virtual paralysis of the U.N. effort has sped contingency planning for a possible withdrawal from Bosnia.

7.   The virtual paralysis of the money market is setting the stage for mass corporate collapses, brokers said.

8.   There is a virtual paralysis everywhere.