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
Ryan growled with exasperation and pulled the covers back over him, even though he was stifling hot.
A robust civil society can check on budgets, seek and publish information, challenge stifling bureaucracies, protect private property, and monitor service delivery.
the stifling atmosphere
Upon this noblest youth -- so far in advance of his rude and turbulent time -- throw a horror that no philosophy, birth, nor training can resist -- one of those weights beneath which all humanity bows shuddering; cast over him a stifling dream, where only the soul can act, and the limbs refuse their offices; have him pushed along by Fate to the lowering, ruinous catastrophe; and you see the dramatic chainwork of a part which he who would enact Hamlet must fulfil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
With the way she had carried on smiling, stifling the grief, putting on her brave face to the world?
They piled these in the shed, and Aphrodite settled herself beside them in the stifling shade. COUP D'ETAT
We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed.
Some people love hot weather, but I find it oppressive and stifling and generally unpleasant.
In truth, the music didn't really take off - the church was stifling, people were shuffling on their feet and the music ebbed and flowed, promising climaxes that it didn't deliver, and tip-toeing around solemnity.
There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice.
Motivating oneself . Emotional self - control -- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness -- underlies accomplishment of every sort.
But this traps them into replacing one orthodoxy with another, stifling rather than expanding debate.
Plato sees democracy as imposing stifling bureaucracy on gifted individuals.
As much as he found managing a gym stifling, he has always been invigorated by the challenge of building a better gym from scratch.
Retailers have to cope with stifling religious and social strictures. Times, Sunday Times
Sex and the City was a great series, with a lot to say about today's apparently liberating, but strangely stifling society.
Raúl experiences a stifling home life in what already feels like a hopelessly backward and decadent society. The Times Literary Supplement
Several hundred people were crammed into the stifling room.
It's hot and stifling up there.
Jude and Tess contend with the stifling conventions of their society and are dealt with cruelly by it.
This is not about stifling artistic creativity. The Sun
This is not about stifling artistic creativity. The Sun
Groups that descended into animism might never emerge from this ‘stone age’ of their development, because of the stifling effects of such things as taboos, and fear of evil spirits.
GOOOOODDDDD DAAAAMMMM ITS WARM TODAY FELLOW DEFENDERS OF THE REALM!!!!!! however i am now nursing a nice lager shandy (off duty of course, im not in CID) and sat in the shade. meanwhile up north today i had to stifle mirth (not very succesfully) as we placed a ‘regular service user’ into a cell. as i left him and came home i hear he was still kicking off about how stifling his cell is … … .. clearly the systems failed him and i feel absolutely dreadful for him … … …. no honestly i do … … … … on July 1, 2009 at 7: 42 pm | Reply Olivers Army Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Equally true, it is important not to over-react and introduce further layers of stifling bureaucracy in a series of panic measures.
In the afternoon we sit in the stifling press tent and try to work.
Before too long the air in the jeep was stifling, because of the cigarette smoke and alcohol.
The humidity in the summer can be stifling, which may explain why St. Louis ranks fourth in the nation in ice cream parlors.
All the Tests lasted a full five days and were attended by a sizeable crowd despite stifling security, oppressive weather and poor facilities at the venues.
His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
The continuing absence of a stifling religiosity is a great Australian virtue.
The very stifling of debate has lent an air of urgency and relevance to the journal's function as a committed vehicle for pluralist theoretical debate.
Conversely, the shorter numbers are often stifling in their brevity.
To a Western eye, the residential areas have a stifling lack of public space - no parks, few open areas.
In the event, they were right, and the air was perfectly still, so it was stiflingly hot.
Waterloo dominated the Mustangs with a stifling defense and a strong running attack earlier this season winning 22-3.
They became a bit less violent over time, the extension stifling and his body slowly stopping its movement, each bawl dying down to a cough, dying down to hard breathing, then back down to normal.
The biggest danger to Farah on a morning so stifling that organisers put out a drinks table for the athletes on the track during the heats was the mini chaos going on around him as, first, a chain reaction of runners clipping each other saw plenty of stalling and stumbling behind him and then, nearing the business end of the race, two athletes tripped over each other and out of the race. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
They pass an iceberg or a derelict, some contour of tropical shore, a fishing fleet, or an old fore-and-after, and the steamer is a stifling modern metropolis after that -- galley and stoke-hole its slums. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
The person who ran it was almost incomprehensible and we had difficulty stifling our giggles. The Sun
Lanolin from greasy wool stains timber floors and walls and the smell of manure from beneath the shed becomes stifling.
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
The sleepy doorman let them out with barely a glance, too busy stifling a yawn. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
Well, it struck me, as I stood there with my head full of what we have been discussing, that the conditions of a girl's life of our own class are pleasant enough, but they are stifling, absolutely _stifling_; and not all the Emersons in the world will convince me to the contrary. The Daughters of Danaus
The temperature on that day was a stifling 37 degrees at noon in a few non-urban areas.
Arsène Wenger refuses to man-mark Barcelona's magical Lionel Messi Arsène Wenger is convinced it would be wrong for Arsenal to change their approach specifically to try stifling Barcelona's Lionel Messi The Guardian World News
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
Experts warn that the crisis is stifling economic growth. The Sun
Television and the print media present an image of prosperity and foster an intellectual atmosphere of stifling conformity.
Yet there is an alternative view which is that, rather than stifling competition, this deal could actually encourage it. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs Reynolds mused, stifling a grin with an effort as she recalled the master's decidedly windblown appearance at the breakfast room door the previous day.
The person who ran it was almost incomprehensible and we had difficulty stifling our giggles. The Sun
Is that sort of radical interpersonal disinhibition so tightly bound up with the creative and productive instincts of the entrepreneur that stifling it to an excessive extent will also kill productivity and creativity?
Far from stifling this beleaguered industry I want to see it have more jobs and higher profits. Times, Sunday Times
The abrading strain of stifling your speech, emotions and actions could easily make life seem interminable or, at a minimum, genuinely impoverished. Book Review: The Appointment by Herta Müller « A Progressive on the Prairie
The withdrawal from participation means not merely a uniquely privileged identity but also a stifling of periodic urges to act, advise or take a hand in political affairs.
Because otherwise social conventions and inequalities would be unbearably stifling and irksome, and terrible things and events would remain festering in our minds, unaired.
Why ever would he want to go to Hampstead when he could be here with us partaking of our salubrious sea air and not out on some stifling heat-sodden moor?
There are nights when I'm awake for hours at a time, left-to-right side maneuvering, stifling monster burps of food I've eaten over the span of three days.
Some have said that there has been a kneejerk reaction towards programming that is stifling creativity. Times, Sunday Times
It's a sad day when 90 minutes of football is all about stifling the yawns.
The focus on job creation in the public sector in cities like Bradford is stifling growth in private industry, leading business chiefs have warned.
That phenomenal spell of weather was called the Great Heat and came after a stifling hot summer and long drought. Times, Sunday Times
Yet there are also many longueurs that, on a stifling night, seemed to get longueur and longueur. Times, Sunday Times
Some have said that there has been a kneejerk reaction towards programming that is stifling creativity. Times, Sunday Times
Yet there is an alternative view which is that, rather than stifling competition, this deal could actually encourage it. Times, Sunday Times
Academia can be stifling for those who worry too much about convention.
I watch men or women pushing carts heavily laden with their wares in searing temperatures, stifling humidity or drenching rain.
But care should be taken lest this desirable unity become stifling uniformity. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
If entrepreneurship and innovation do not well up in an organization, something must be stifling them. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
But in the 19th century, this essential work was seriously disrupted by the strict sabbatarianism and stifling dominance of the church.
The tale begins quietly enough on a long-ago summer's day of stifling heat and scorching sunshine.
We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed.
Naturally, they can hardly accept Shen's stifling love.
And we have to answer that the politicians and their fixers are taking our money, hijacking our democracy, stifling debate and treating voters with contempt.
If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume.
The parental home is wonderful but stifling.
Come to think of it, both men are low-income stick-in-the-muds, hamstrung by past women, unable to escape dark, stifling homes, and psychologically unstable.
In isolation, the stifling homogeny of the album doesn't come across as strongly, and the crooning doesn't get as tiresome.
The weather had been growing stickier for days. In the stifling air, the leaves were still, the candle flames barely flickered. THE GOLDEN LION
Well, I am extremely pessimistic about Mexican-American relations, not because the U.S. had done anything specifically wrong to our southern neighbor but because a (now not quite so) wealthy country has as its abutter a Latin society with all of its characteristic deficiencies: congenital corruption, authoritarian government, anarchic politics, near-tropical work habits, stifling social mores, Catholic dogma with the usual unacknowledged compromises, an anarchic counter-culture and increasingly violent modes of conflict. Think Progress
The tribe head for their sunlit woodland gardens before the stifling afternoon heat descends. The Sun
In this case, he got everyone he wanted including Rosamund Pike who plays an upper class wife stuck in stifling domesticity. Regina Weinreich: Gents-Who Lunch: Nigel Cole and Alfred Uhry
His initial reaction is to escape from a stifling home environment, school bullies, and poverty.
I sat up in bed, suddenly aware my room was stifling hot.
Could early lawsuits against antipsychotics have had a stifling effect on developing clozapine?
Policing performance targets set by the Government are stifling officers' ability to do their job, a report claims.
Lizzy had to leave the room which had become too stifling.
Some have said that there has been a kneejerk reaction towards programming that is stifling creativity. Times, Sunday Times
The person who ran it was almost incomprehensible and we had difficulty stifling our giggles. The Sun
Through the first five games of this series, the Texas Rangers have succeeded for the most part in stifling Mr. Rodriguez, the Yankees third baseman. Same Old Ghost Story
The President's concentration of power is stifling his country's transition to democracy.
I really enjoy having, in my own home, an escape from those exhausting summer days of high temperatures and stifling humidity.
Colin sez, 40-year-old Mikhail Puchkov decided to design and build a personal submarine during the stifling era of Leonid Brezhnev's regime when he was barely twenty years old. Boing Boing
We are simultaneously stifling growth with regulation of banks and risking financial stability with what we are doing with monetary and fiscal stimulus. Times, Sunday Times
Life in the clothes dryer gets stifling. Christianity Today
The Comte rushed to help her, and as she seemed to be stifling, cut her bodice open with his dagger, baring her shoulder.
But in time he came to feel that merely stifling the piggy niff was unambitious: the vast lakes of pigshit produced at hog farms ought in some way to be a revenue source rather than a waste product. The Register
To pay off their debt, they work terrible hours in stifling conditions at a Chinatown clothing factory. Jean Kwok's debut 'Girl in Translation' speaks eloquently
It was difficult to work in the stifling heat of the warehouse.
I am sitting at the moment in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown.
And by distributing a new pattern of economic activity over a broad rural area, even while stifling growth, prisons create sprawl.
The day was the climax of a burning fortnight, of heat, draught, and dust, of baked, cracked, dewless land, and oily breezeless seas, of glaring days, passing through fierce fiery sunsets into stifling nights. The Hawaiian Archipelago
With their knowing artifice, the works achieved a stifling kind of perfection.
The grievance industry can be just as effective in stifling public debate as government censorship. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
Experts warn that the crisis is stifling economic growth. The Sun
The heat was stifling, and rose in waves off of the sand.
We should be encouraging new ideas, not stifling them.
As a result you are going to be stifling the activity of the most grassroots, casual type of political action, rather than that of the big press corporation.
After numerous reports about energy shortages and no heat, the orchestra's hotel rooms were stifling.
The daytime temperature reached ninety degrees, and the feverish Clark was moved from the stifling leather lodge to a more comfortable shaded bower the crew made for him.
You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.
Stifling a cry of pain, she stiffly moved herself into a better position holding her arms straight as possible.
Forecasters warned of stifling weather from today. The Sun
Spinning the young boy lunged at the mast pole, stifling a cry as he felt his feet lose footing as he was dangling over the dark gaping ocean.
The populist politics of discontent were later to be identified as Poujadism, a term attached to a short-lived revolt of the petite bourgeoisie against the stifling bureaucracy of France's Fourth Republic, and led by shopkeeper Pierre Poujade in 1953. Whisky Galore – review
Some commentators worry that the growth of courses as the normal threshold to a literary career will impose a stifling uniformity. Times, Sunday Times
We also really, really need to get the loft ceiled and insulated; it costs money in winter and makes the house stifling hot in summer. Electricity and Gas and Water
Freshly out of rehab, Quirke begins drinking again and frankly, one can't blame him – there's his grim childhood on top of the daughter business (adumbrated here but detailed in the first two books), plus the fact that Dublin in the 50s was small-minded and stifling as well as foggy and soggy. Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review
The temperature on that day was a stifling 37 degrees at noon in a few non-urban areas.
That phenomenal spell of weather was called the Great Heat and came after a stifling hot summer and long drought. Times, Sunday Times
Teachers have been attacked for stifling creativity in their pupils.
The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
There were prohibitive laws stifling the development of Mozambique's indigenous manufacturing industry.
There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
Some have said that there has been a kneejerk reaction towards programming that is stifling creativity. Times, Sunday Times
It fits with their neo-Jeffersonian view of things — and their disdain for the soft-money me-tooism they see stifling the party in Washington. Outside the Beltway
It would be easy to wonder: is this what modern "moll"-ism looks like – cancelling Facebook, stopping Tweeting, stifling the modern confessional urge, to stand by your man, even if he isn't your man any more? David Cameron, shame on you, for this 'brave' attack on nurses | Barbara Ellen
Outside the smell from the brewery hung over the town, stifling as a warm pillow, making it difficult to breathe.
By then I had stepped outside to get some fresh air, away from the stifling smoke and heat of the temple.
Stifling a cry, I squinted my eyes closed and bit my lower lip.
It's been a couple of weeks since I bought this one, and I'm sure mentioning it will have most people stifling yawns, but that's just tough!
Had he been playing in Montreal, Detroit, or another city where his profile as a ballyhooed rookie would have been higher, the pressure on him to produce might have been stifling. Stamkos's Shot a Real Show Stopper
Stifling another giggle, she only nods her agreement, unable to voice her assent.
Last night I went out and two ladies who were sitting at my table were stifling me with their perfume.
I dumped my backpack at my feet and took his coat off because the heat was stifling.
The stifling heat in the studio - a recurrent problem at this venue - provided an extra layer of discomfort. Times, Sunday Times
The languid, soupy air mass surrounded us and wrapped us in its stifling grip.
The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
Nonetheless, he understood the importance of the day, and stuck it out even though it was stifling hot in the un-air-conditioned auditorium.
England are a stifling team. Times, Sunday Times
She took one last look at the people still inside and then turned, stifling the tears and walked out, the door shutting behind her with a hollow click.
The DfID is stifling innovation and adding to the aid gravy train for huge multinational organisations. Times, Sunday Times
There was nothing, except for my distaste for the stifling culture of public school, that made the experience unusually unpleasant.
Even with this system, the temperature in the cave is a stifling 40 degrees C! Did you know? Chihuahua caves house the world's largest crystals
But there is a new threat on the horizon: the E.U.'s stifling bureaucracy.
The DfID is stifling innovation and adding to the aid gravy train for huge multinational organisations. Times, Sunday Times
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis endured hours of stifling heat for the last couple of days to queue for free handphone connections.
Ellen opens his eyes to the stifling New York society in which he has always lived.
A perfect recipe for a stifling night is a sunny day, a windless night, with a cocktail of air pollution. Weatherwatch: Heat and discomfort in the city
Within minutes we are stifling in a sauna of body heat and human sweat. Times, Sunday Times
We turned a corner into another long, stifling, shadowy corridor and heard music, faraway and insistent, the percussion first. DOWNTOWN
The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable.
They gave another exemplary performance in stifling heat and appeared to have set up the game for England. Times, Sunday Times
The general was fed up with the war, with Afghanistan, with the airport on this sunbaked plain and its stifling heat. KARA KUSH
It is stifling free speech of decent and reasonable people without discernably restraining the genuinely hate-filled lunatics who do have violence in mind. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
So we covered our mouths, stifling silly giggles, petrified that the principal's paralyzing peepers would turn our way!
Rafael was standing at the window, obediently stifling his tears. SACRAMENT
I had no idea what had passed between the two, but the negative vibe was stifling.
Too hawkish an approach has undeniable costs by making capital more expensive and stifling innovation. Times, Sunday Times
She said the educational system reinforces the idea that there is only one right answer, stifling creativity.
His lofty glance seemed to measure her from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes, leaving the girl stifling with self-consciousness.
The level of control exercised by the parties was absolutely stifling.
Only pray let her give way to her grief; much crying, even if it makes her cough for the moment, can do her no real harm, but stifling and swallowing _grief_ (which she The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
Most English speakers would, whilst stifling an urge to vomit at such bilge, recognise the reference to the two meanings of the word ‘bulb’.
His immediate impression was one of stifling heat and dim ruddy red light.
He said families with young children were the largest group to express their concern about the stifling weather.
The latter's designs for arabesques of ironwork for garden gates, are still to be found in the Stifling papers in Glasgow.
More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating.
I had begun to find their intense flowery scent stifling and had the impression that they were causing my chesty cough.
There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
Our ˜natural benevolent affections™ guide us to do good toward some small sector of humankind (a small sector composed of our friends, promisees, colleagues, family, etc.), and stifling such natural tendencies would leave only “a very feeble counterpoise to self-love” and thus little from which to develop a more extended and generalized benevolence (434). Special Obligations
It was as if a window had opened on a stifling room overburdened with heavy furniture to let in a fresh breeze. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
At 15, he became the youngest ever UK DMC Mixing Championships finalist, before realising that the world of competitive turntablism was stifling his creative urges. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers
They gave another exemplary performance in stifling heat and appeared to have set up the game for England. Times, Sunday Times
Most recruits from business find the grinding pace stifling. Times, Sunday Times
The steady thump of drums beat a deadly rhythm in the stifling heat.
Harry felt stiflingly hot, choking almost, as he loosened his collar.
He held his breath, stifling the cough that had lodged in his chest.
We have no work ethic and a stifling bureaucracy.
The air in the natatorium was thick and stifling, as I knew it would be.
This is not about stifling artistic creativity. The Sun
Fuzzy drum samples come clearly banged out on a sampler in lo-fi analog glee - no digital quantizing is stifling these joints.
Finally the arts are now emancipated from the stifling cloak of puritanical hypocrisy.
The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
Heat is in stifling blanket layers.
The hallmark problem of a monopolist is its stifling effect on innovation.
The introduction, where we see Lexie kicking her heels in the stifling atmosphere of her Devonshire family before a too-chance encounter with the glamorous, corduroy-suited Innes, feels a little stagey; for all the brilliance of O'Farrell's depictions of new motherhood, the historical plot outshines and unbalances the contemporary one. The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
The 40 student volunteers staggered through the stifling heat to the Lampert building over the course of two weeks.

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