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What the reforms would discourage is the strategic use of firings to immobilize the commissions themselves.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

A single freeze-up can knock out an entire weapons platform or immobilize a convoy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

Calvin, known throughout Altadena as “Coach Z,” has refused to allow the insurmountable loss to immobilize him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Others suggested they helped predators immobilize larger prey, assisted the brooding of eggs or were a display to mates and rivals.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

I could immobilize my arms and legs, but inside me it was rush hour in downtown Phoenix.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

"Whether it immobilizes us, or instead we denounce and shout to the world what is happening."

From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026

Still today, the pit attracts and inadvertently immobilizes mammals, birds and insects like “flies on flypaper,” according to Bird Center’s statement on the incident.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Fukuyama and a virus that immobilizes people into teeth-chattering zombies — are as haunting as the villainous Shadow King, played by Audrey Plaza, who at times also appears as a nightmarishly pale, obese figure.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2018

“Fish that encounter electricity go through a process called galvanotaxis that immobilizes the muscles, physically stopping the fish from moving through the barrier. The process can be lethal,” says Mark Cornish, a supervisory Corps biologist.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2017

He thrusts his hand out and immobilizes the trolls.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The document also addresses key European interests, including the need to use immobilized Russian central bank assets held in Europe to support Ukraine and its recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

The injuries observed suggest that orcas may have developed a refined technique to trigger this immobilized state while reducing the risk of being bitten.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025

He’s been immobilized by a hip injury, and looked up quizzically from his bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

I don't have the privilege of being immobilized, so since Wednesday morning I've been working on what I can do to help the situation in any way that I possibly can.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024

The fury and hatred bubbling inside Harry seemed to blaze white-hot, but he would rather have been immobilized all the way back to London than tell Snape why he was late.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Trainers were immobilizing the leg before the cart even reached Lathan.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Zelda Williams took to Twitter to share that the Oscar winner, who died at 63 in 2014, likely would have supported the SAG-AFTRA strike that’s currently immobilizing Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

The original architecture for immobilizing the tank waste was to chemically separate it, using the now-mothballed treatment plant, into low and high radioactive streams.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

His knee was in an immobilizing brace when he came back to the Crimson Tide bench.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

“He just wants to give us some hands-on experience,” said Hermione, immobilizing two pixies at once with a clever Freezing Charm and stuffing them back into their cage.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling