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A few voices protested: wasn't the home secretary stifling the group's right to say unpopular things in hopes of a political boost?

i wish i could cry but i failed. i can't breath in the stifling pain as if i am pressed down by a heavy stone.

The team did not report through IBM's stifling bureaucracy, but directly to the top of the company.

Genuinely sympathetic to his employer's grief, he would reply neutrally, stifling his impulse to state that the crash was just an accident.

At lASt, AS midday approached with its stifling heat, something floating on the surface of the water caught his eye.

It was a heavy, stifling red, as though the light were shining through bowls of blood.

Being self-conscious is stifling. My toddler brings more attention to her Buddha belly than I ever would. But she also has more fun.

Stifling air enfolded him, sticking his shirt to his chest and his hair to his forehead. He felt a moment of even greater panic.

An increase in interest rates will undoubtedly result in an immediate stifling of any increase in economic activity.

This refusal to put up with the old stifling paradigms is helping the shift toward the Light and was inevitable.

Some just prefer to sleep outside, to keep watch over their property, or to get out from the stifling heat indoors.

Walid bin Attash complained that he does not trust his attorneys, and said the government is stifling his defense.

I am sitting at the moment in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown.

Later , I saw her as a tragic figure , trapped by a bad marriage and a stifling royal system .

"Sharing that economic insight could go a long way toward stifling criticism at home and abroad, " said the report.

Compounding the problem was the fact that some faculty members felt that making students write correctly was stifling their creativity.

So when there's stifling or annoying circumstances and I can't express my feelings, I let out a scream.

The doctors declared that she must have medical treatment, and therefore kept her in the stifling atmosphere of the town.

The big increase in state ownership and regulation over the last few years is stifling growth and holding back vital investment, they say.

Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.

But South Korea is no longer such a place, and the government's hand is widely seen as stifling competition and growth.

Regulatory uncertainty is stifling the ability of financial markets to engineer at least a partial recovery.

The air was stifling, and Elena felt sure that there were eyes on her.

Unfortunately, it was not obvious to the American graders, who marked them negatively for needlessly stifling freedom of expression_r_r.

As teachers mocked the principal and complained about her being "stifling" and "hyper, " the atmosphere got more poisonous.

The Nordic story is not one of behemoth-like states stifling entrepreneurship, innovation and individuality.

Terry and June's stifling urban setting is filled with toady underlings who enjoy sucking up to their arrogant bosses.

In this case then by banning public action of a certain type we won't have to worry about stifling anyone's individuality.

Scientists worry that claimant-friendly rules are stifling the criticism on which science depends.

Mr Kagame and his government are stifling political and press freedom in advance of a presidential election due in August.

Study offered me entry to new worlds far from the stifling atmosphere of my mother's emotional blackmail.

Life is like the sea, young sentimental, like the sea under the shining sun, the stifling calm.

Still, stifling Android developers is the lack of a simple market for third-party apps.

even as in one who at last draws free air, after long stifling with his own polluted breath.

Like the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Expo featured a dazzling opening ceremony and stifling security measures.

A certain vision of social harmony has come at the price of partially stifling legitimate dissent, together with the illegitimate kind.

They came to earth to escape the power of the spiritual elite of Sirius that they felt was stifling further evolutionary goals.

Let the claim stand, Mayo argues, and firms will win broad patents over basic biological relationships, stifling innovation.

One was put in mind of a brilliant, slightly stifling summer day whose beauty is the harbinger of a distant thunderstorm.

A grey miasma, neither cloud nor mist, hung low in the sky and the atmosphere was stifling.

We set off early the next morning to drive through the stifling desert heat to Hyderabad.

Parents are not wrong in enforcing good study habits , but they must not do so at the expense of stifling normal child development .

For an American, this translates into fostering respect, including stifling open criticism.

Is there a mountain of debt on top of you, stifling the lifestyle that you thought you would have?

And finally we lie on the floor, behind the piano, while someone sings a dreary song. The air is stifling and her breath is boozy.

Meanwhile, there can be a diversity-stifling effect to "diversity" .

Far from serving China's interests, protectionism in the water sector is stifling innovation.

His timid attempts to cut Hungary's stifling tax burden have had little impact.

When coral bleaches, seaweed can grow out of control, stifling reef recovery.

Other analysts say they're confident China's policymakers will manage to reduce inflation gently without stifling growth too much.

Stifling half-court defense is the name of the game in the playoffs.

Second, the size and strength of the chaebol risk stifling entrepreneurialism elsewhere.

These Seers embraced the whole of human experience, equating passion with divinity and discarding the stifling mores of the Church.

India, meanwhile, has concentrated on services, in part because stifling bureaucracy makes it easier to move bytes around than atoms.

Working in stifling tents filled with patients, the team tended to those whose doctors had left and were in need of follow-up care.

Palestinian officials have been unable to move the students into concrete classes because of the stifling Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip.

CEO Steve Ballmer has come under fire recently for focusing too much on the Windows platform, stifling innovation in other areas.

Whereas the previous ties were exercises in negative, stifling football, last Wednesday's game was absolutely electrifying.

Undoubtedly one of the true joys of being an entrepreneur is that you are not trapped in one stifling occupation but are free to roam.

Large organizations where you have to answer to someone else are often stifling to an entrepreneurial personality.

Mr Gezen warns: "There is a risk of stifling the growth of some of these countries if the transport system cannot serve their needs. "

It is a difficult balance to strike and critics charge that America has erred on the side of stifling.

Or the stifling presence of the understanding that there are more desirable paths that you would like to take in life?

Barack Obama's critics blame the stagnation on the stifling effect of new regulations and overzealous bureaucrats.

Media and advertising executives are quick to list the barriers stifling growth in the mobile ad market, but offer few viable alternatives.

As Republicans correctly keep telling us, that eventually leads to higher interest rates, further stifling growth.

Although we didn't have electricity for 10 days, we had a generator to run a small portable air-conditioner in the stifling heat.

Making everyone follow the same tax rules would quickly diminish Europe's competitiveness by killing jobs and stifling growth.

The stifling pressure in real life has crushed some people into the fabricated life online, in which they seek release and comfort.

The poor state of Africa's maritime sector is the most important factor stifling the continent's growth.

Some have coping mechanisms, such as stifling or projecting; some use physical exercise, which is useful, but not so much in the moment.

"We'd come home in the summer, and the house would be 115 degrees, stifling, " said Mr. Waldrep, a regional manager for a national company.

Education in Asia is still too stifling, rote and high-pressured.

Historians also tend to blame the stifling effects of bureaucracy and authoritarianism, among other factors.

But now that it is a giant with 20, 000 employees, the firm risks stifling potential money-spinners with a burgeoning bureaucracy.

Hence the popular Conservative proposal to liberate state schools from "stifling state control. "

Hakkarainen, as well as two other former employees and industry analysts, may well be Nokia's stifling bureaucratic culture.

Human rights groups have long accused Mr. Aliyev's government of curbing democratic freedoms and stifling dissent.

The atmosphere in the crowded hall became so stifling that two of the women passed out .

But it also recognises that the separation of banking and broking is stifling development of Japan's financial markets.

If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.

Cynics say 798 has become a misleading showcase for liberal expression in a country subject to stifling censorship.

The place was stifling, full of smoke and the unique beery smell of an English pub.

Sleep early education is stifling the genius of the murderer, to end the root causes of human, is creating a cradle nerve.

"So Microsoft deserves both praise for stimulating innovation and criticism for stifling it. "

Mr Zuma has since promised that there will be no violent land invasions, but fears remain, stifling new farm investment.

The buses are popular in the summer when pensioners flock to air-conditioned supermarkets to escape the stifling heat.

Are English courts stifling free speech around the world?

Moreover, there are signs that the chaebol may be stifling innovation and entrepreneurship.

The first-class cabins are too expensive, second class is stifling and third is in steerage.

One year in the summer, Cao Cao led his troops to war. It was so hot and the heat was stifling.

For many contemporary artists, beauty has become associated with conservative, stifling, domestic value.

It isn't just the stifling heat, but rather the dripping humidity that makes Changsha uncomfortable in the summer.

It has also made some badly needed changes in the country's stifling bureaucracy.

It was new, clean and only pennies more expensive than a cramped and stifling old bus.

It really takes that level of belief to overcome the obstacles that we see preventing progress, stifling creativity.

An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, dull groans .

there are signs that the chaebol may be stifling innovation and entrepreneurship.

In recent years, however, the patent system has been stifling innovation rather than encouraging it.

They keep cash reserves instead, which means there is less danger of a credit crunch stifling the real Chinese economy.

Bobby: I prefer winter because you can always put on more clothes to keep warm. In the summer the air is stifling.

Kill timber heat treatment the worm and stifling auxiliary facility that killed the worm.

Hate is a malignancy that festers and grows, stifling joy and threatening our health.

The tie is made from silk and special micro fibres, which will help to cool the skin during the stifling summer humidity.

Society may be caught in the stifling grip of consumerist culture!

it pushed them close, drove them apart, it barred their path, stifling a laugh, and then leaped aside.

They cheered the absence of the stifling tents in which they studied last spring.

Youths in white uniforms hang around in the dusty compound in the stifling afternoon heat.

Next TV accused the NCC of suppressing freedom of speech and stifling creativity.

The act has also been accused of stifling risk-taking and increasing directors' pay.

There were brief pauses of stifling heat and humidity, quickly followed by more rain.

Work iteratively. Expectation to do things perfectly are stifling.

Into the stifling smoke plunged the desperate woman .

the stifling of the Caribbean trafficking route led to more drugs moving through Mexico, and so on.

Action to support prices, however, will risk stifling demand.

No matter your rank, region or level of luxury, Thanksgiving dinner is likely a stifling and tired occasion.

Those who oppose the government, meanwhile, accuse the security forces of stifling dissent through brutality.

When people walk inside the cinema, it becomes stifling quickly.

If you smile too much, you're delusional or you're stifling hysteria.

But that risks stifling growth or bursting the property bubble.

I must go out and sit in the garden. The air is stifling here.

In the stifling heat, boys with wooden sticks checked the few cars on the streets.

Heat is in stifling blanket layers.

Farmwork is too hard, say other returnees, the expectations of village life too stifling.

"This heat is stifling, " said Joe, wiping his forehead.

There we all were, stifling our emotions (and our knee joints).

The World Bank is accusing Israel of stifling the Palestinian economy.

I hate having to work in such a stifling office!

Senior churchmen, such as former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, have attacked equality laws for stifling Christianity.

You may think your excitement is infectious when in reality it is stifling.

Why, it's so noisy (cold, hot, stifling, dark, gloomy) in here.

"We need to be using it, not stifling it. "

It's so stifling that I can hardly breathe.

Stifling our feelings will work against us because when we deny or suppress anger, we end up projecting it.

Like any foreign aggression, it will lead to further stifling of civil freedoms in Russia.

Spreads the stifling and crazy flavor.

But the heavy hand of the government can be stifling here.

However, some tourists say that the place is not only overcrowded but also stifling, and the shopping environment there is unsatisfactory.

The roadswere quiet. Even without the occupation's stifling effect, cars were few andfar between.

A shaved head also helped her stay cool in Egypts stifling heat.

This is ridiculous, because their practice is stifling constructive conflict, will need to address the major issues under the carpet.

It's stifling in here; open a window!

she broke off, stifling a sob.

Hamza Bakht, 14, spends his days on the street for relief from the stifling two-room apartment where his 40-member family is living.

If Tao keeps stifling, it draws back and doesn't pay attention to us.

The air becomes more and more stifling in the conference room, and Mouazzen begins breathing heavily.

I'm stifling in this hot room.

The room is tiny, but focusing on one person, performing one task, it is far from stifling.

You will have to learn how to balance clarity and precision, so that your ideas come across without either ambiguity or stifling formality.

I am stifling in this close room .

Let's not go to the movies, it's stifling out there.

Stifling financial innovation will only slow growth, with little benefit in terms of stemming future crises;

The motives of the sovereign money men could be sinister: stifling competition;

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More than once in our history we've seen patriotism slide into jingoism, xenophobia, the stifling of dissent;

I am stifling in this room.

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it barred their path, stifling a laugh,

A Mask Was Stifling Me