stifling

Example Sentences

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And Rock'n'Roll was about the stifling repression of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

From BBC

The Europeans say that's wrong because the measure is not about stifling trade but about cutting planet-warming gases – tackling climate change.

From BBC

If the vacuum energy derived from quantum theory is correct, then something must be stifling this energy's effects on the expansion of space.

From Scientific American

Is it worth it because you won it all in the first year or stifling because he so frequently has given the Nats little chance to win since?

From Washington Post

Environmentalists fear a gas industry victory here could cascade, stifling nascent efforts to get fossil fuels out of buildings in other parts of Oregon and in other U.S. cities and counties.

From Washington Post