The Filipino people can ill afford the heavy cost of the current political paralysis.

Sri Lanka has been in state of near political paralysis since summer, when the government first came close to collapse.

But the tilt is so pronounced as to raise fears of political paralysis.

An overwhelming majority - 79 percent - said the country was stymied by political paralysis.

Without a crisis, a real national energy program could not get past normal political paralysis.

That produced political paralysis and a fortune has been squandered.

The debt downgrade was a direct result of the political paralysis in Washington.

In the seven years of peace, these emotions have mostly produced political paralysis.

"I have never seen such political paralysis," said a Western diplomat.

But on the Potomac, when there is too much interest in a subject a political paralysis can result.