Sentence examples for be stifled with from inspiring English sources

"I needed to know for the book whether you could be stifled with a pillow.

But success is also a powerful incentive, so employees need to be allowed to take risks and not be stifled with controls.

Peaceful dissent should never be stifled with violence.

Competition among firms is stifled, with very high levels of concentration and high barriers to new entrants.

The only values now are cash values; the cities have been stifled with the arrival of the tower blocks; the heart has grown small.

Tudor and Stuart histories insist that the remains contained in an urn designed by Sir Christopher Wren are those of Edward V and Richard Duke of York who were "stifled with pillows... by the order of their perfidious uncle Richard the Usurper", as the 17th-century inscription puts it.

Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill)., meanwhile, compared it to the politics of the Cold War, when dissent was stifled with fear and prosecution, including the hearings led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

During this period, isolated dissent from rank-and-file members was stifled with a heavy-handed letter from the APA attorney threatening legal action or by communications from prominent members of the APA governance threatening "ethics" charges if policy protests were not discontinued.

In the opening scene of "The Pride," Alexi Kaye Campbell's seriously sentimental play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, two men meet for the first time at the house one shares with his wife, and the room is stifling with the heat of the unsaid.

"That's how it feels to be stifled in a classroom with a person that you know hates your existence".

That's just the kind of impressive-sounding innovation that critics of the health care reform act say will be stifled by the new law, with its emphasis on cost control and the comparative effectiveness of new pills and devices.