That was critical because the corners were already stifling Jets receivers (Santonio Holmes was nowhere to be found in this one).
Prices are soaring, the country is plagued by electrical blackouts, some neighborhoods go days without water, and protests tangle the already stifling traffic.
Imagine: Texas was already stifling on defense, but what can this team achieve if Ash and this offense take a big step forward?
However, the biggest criticism of Abenomics is that it will provide only a short-lived adrenaline shot for growth, while producing little more than superfluous bridges and roads, and adding to Japan's already stifling national debt.
INSIDE PITCH The night was already stifling before a trash fire between the inner and outer walls of Shea Stadium sent gray smoke billowing into the stands in the third inning just before 8 p.m.
Add to that the exhaust of vehicles, the effluence of industrial plants, the occasional sandstorm and the smoke drifting in from some of Arizona's routine summer wildfires, and the air, already stifling, can be almost unbearable.
Ironically, much of the deal-making in the media business is in large part a rational effort by producers and distributors to escape what is already stifling regulation.
In one massive synchronized movement, the throng drew on their e-cigarettes and released a gigantic, breathy cloud of vapor into the already stifling atmosphere.
In one massive synchronised movement, the throng drew on their e-cigarettes and released a gigantic, breathy cloud of vapour into the already stifling atmosphere.
This is a truly preemptive "beach/ocean clean-up" -- disposing of all this crap inland before it even gets to the coastline -- where it could join the millions of tons of flotsam and jetsam already stifling marine ecosystems.
