The lake was frozen.

A moment frozen in time.

In the face of such uncertainty, markets froze.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

Several cities in the northern part of Iran are frozen and their gas supply has been disrupted.

By contrast, eurozone banks have almost stood still on both indicators.

This process was largely frozen during the five decades of the Cold War.

Indeed, the credit channel is frozen and velocity has collapsed, with banks hoarding increases in base money in the form of excess reserves.

The big surprise here is not that central banks acted decisively and boldly when financial markets froze and economic activity plummeted.

In Europe, the market for Greek debt has frozen, and interest rate spreads between Irish and German euro denominated debt recently reached alarming levels.

The asset backed commercial paper market came to a standstill and the special investment vehicles set up by banks to get mortgages off their balance sheets could no longer get outside financing.

At the same time, there was a wage and price freeze, an end to the Federal Reserve s swap network of support for other central banks, and a limitation of gold transactions, implying a reduction in the value of the American currency.

That explains why some EU member states are keen to resume the negotiations on a Stabilization and Association Agreement, which were suspended a year ago due to Serbia s failure to cooperate fully with the ICTY.

And I remember getting out of the water and my hands feeling so painful and looking down at my fingers, and my fingers were literally the size of sausages because you know, we're made partially of water when water freezes it expands, and so the cells in my fingers had frozen and expanded and burst.

NEW YORK In the wake of the 2007 2008 financial crisis, the world s central banks played a critical role in rescuing the global financial system. They stepped in when private markets froze, acting as lenders and dealers of last resort, and provided additional liquidity to grease the wheels of finance.

Being unprepared for the sudden change in climate, the survivors were those intelligent enough to invent new tools and ways of keeping warm and finding new sources of food (for example, adapting to ocean fishing based on prior fishing skills used in lakes and streams that became frozen).