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Examples
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For over 10 years, Jimmy and his wheelchair-bound wife, Ellen, were homeless.
Christine Schanes: Why Do We Discriminate Against the Homeless? Christine Schanes 2011
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Because he was wheelchair-bound, FDR was confined to his desk for long periods and occupied his time reading the piles of documents in his in-box, other historians speculate.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Ms. Kaiser, who has the powerful upper body that distinguishes the wheelchair competitors, explained that the main difference between wheelchair and traditional tennis is that the wheelchair-bound get two bounces.
On the Outer Courts Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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For over 10 years, Jimmy and his wheelchair-bound wife, Ellen, were homeless.
Christine Schanes: Why Do We Discriminate Against the Homeless? Christine Schanes 2011
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The typically stiff white-tie crowd erupted in cheers when wheelchair-bound Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, partially paralyzed by a stroke two decades ago, received the Nobel Prize in literature.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman Receive 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 2011
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"You're taking 70-year-old planes and putting them under such stress," said 54-year-old Bob Wogan, a hotel auditor from Scottsdale, Ariz., whose wheelchair-bound nephew was killed by the crashing plane.
Air Shows Draw Scrutiny Jim Carlton 2011
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But Asamoah remembers a different time: Before we got help from the Global Fund, these kind of patients in the ARV unit were all wheelchair-bound.
'In 10 years' time, Ghana may not require any aid at all' 2012
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She notes that the "intolerance for ideas falling outside the known and accepted tropes of the left is so deep and wide as to render them incapable of listening without a jeering rancorousness to the words of fellow student Anthony Mascheck--a heroic wounded vet arguing in favor of reinstating Columbia's ROTC program after a four-decade ban--who sits, wheelchair-bound."
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Inspired by a true story, the film has drawn an audience of more than 10 million since its release just over a month ago and has also sparked a timely debate about how the wheelchair-bound are treated in France.
All Aboard for le Cinéma Français Lennox Morrison 2011
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See the brilliant Sylvie Testud in Lourdes, a lovely film about isolation and community, in which a wheelchair-bound woman pretends to greater faith for access to her local church congregation.
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