stifling

How To Use stifling In A Sentence

• This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing.
• One hint could have been that his nomination brought immediate praise from both industry groups and Congressional republicans) and the topper of them all Bush sicophant Stephen Johnson (who famously sided with Buah and big industry in hampering states from enforcing higher greenhouse emmision standards and stifling his own Depts requests and reports on environmental problems). Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 8, 2010
• the stifling of all dissent
• The entrepreneurial spirit and social innovation fostered by a market economy has benefited many, and should not be overly encumbered by stifling regulations.
• Gibraltar has had to set up special holding zones for cars and pedestrians stuck in stifling heat. The Sun
• Take a look at the clip on my website and you'll see security helping him back to his feet, stifling their laughs. The Sun
• But Benedict, however "charming," is still stifling theologians who challenge ideas about Catholicism, says Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and former editor of the Jesuit-owned magazine America. U.S. visit will give pope a defining moment
• Our financing system is increasingly risk averse, which is stifling entrepreneurship and innovation. Ten Questions For Diane Hendricks
• Maria, to bring money to her family and escape a stifling existence in her small Colombian town, risks becoming a mule for a drug ring.
• They were sick of religiosity in all its forms, just as they were sick of the Order's omnipresent and stifling holism. THE BROKEN GOD