If the Council wins control over specific development projects, watch for governmental paralysis.

This has resulted in governmental paralysis over nearly all issues of importance, from reducing the national debt to controlling health care costs.

But taken together, they can work at cross purposes and result in a kind of governmental paralysis.

The agreement between the parties fell apart in 1994 leading to governmental paralysis as the CDS on its own no longer had a majority in the assembly.

The news came amid continuing partisan wrangling and governmental paralysis as Democrats and Republicans sought to hold one another responsible for any future tax increases.

But the elections had dwindling turnout and exacerbated a split in the major political party that has led to governmental paralysis.

Since President Bill Clinton first offered to transfer the island to New York State for a dollar in 1995, this beautiful property has languished, its empty buildings symbolic of governmental paralysis.

The result was governmental paralysis, as economic and social problems festered.

Under the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution, a chief executive can only step down because of ill health or governmental paralysis involving relations with the legislature.

The governmental paralysis has disappointed both Haitians and other countries, which are coming to realize that they also had unrealistic expectations.