Sentence examples for casting a chill on from inspiring English sources

The police videotaped the crowd, casting a chill on 420, as the tradition is known.

Many lawyers accused him of casting a chill on the profession by trying Ms. Stewart, the New York defense lawyer, for her unorthodox defense of a terrorist client.

The ruling, Mr. Kelleher argued, could cast a chill on other attempts to sue federal regulators.

The Obama administration "had already set a record… so this puts them even further out in front," Aftergood said, adding that the intense focus has "cast a chill on relations between national security officials and members of the public".

The new legislation has cast a chill on an otherwise promising natural gas industry.

These practices are inherently arbitrary, overbroad, and cast a chill on other rights.

But while I have no doubt that surveillance by the National Security Agency and other entities has cast a chill on free expression, or that our communications are routinely monitored, the real issue raised by "Chilling Effects" has to do with courage.

The diplomatic crisis, in which winds unleashed by the Arab Spring are now casting a chill over the region, was crystallized by the scene of Israeli military jets sweeping into Cairo at dawn on Saturday to evacuate diplomats after the Israeli Embassy had been besieged by thousands of protesters.

They may also cast a chilling pall on freedom of expression and havealready fuelled paranoia among protesters, fearful of future consequences from being on China's watch lists.

An extraordinary front-page newspaper editorial on Sunday in Ciudad Juárez cast a chilling light on the mortal dangers faced by journalists in Mexico's escalating drug wars.

As Yahoo! put it, Mr. Beah's account of the life of a child soldier "has cast a chilling spotlight on the brutality of wars that rage across Africa".