Years of blank terror and sleepless nights, hunger and destitution, spent in a landscape of rubble colonised by rats and heavy with the smell of pestilence and decay, might have been expected to stifle any positive attitude to life.
The slump in retail sales in May is expected to stifle GDP growth in the second quarter and further increases the chances that the Bank of England will delay raising interest rates until 2012.
This is highly paradoxical in view of the large numbers of people exposed to the air campaign day after day, month after month, year after year, and the length of time -- well into the postwar period -- during which they faced its real consequences, which might have been expected to stifle any positive attitude to life".
The use of an FC angle to position the gamma camera would be expected to result in a higher variation in the positioning of the lateral stifle scintigram compared to the radioactive capsule guided method.
McNamara's insistence that military personnel stick to the govt. line when discussing foreign policy in public forums, was expected to provoke a hot controversy, but it was stifled.
Some economists warn that the tax increases would further stifle Italy's economy, which is expected to grow less than 1 percent this year.
Wednesday, President Assad is expected to announce that the country's almost 50-year emergency law, used to stifle opposition to the regime, is going to be lifted.
Top executives from the two companies were expected to appear Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address concerns that the acquisition would stifle Internet and video competition.
