Hardliner countries stifled any kind of meaningful discussion, and everyone left in much the same place they'd started.
In defending Christmas against its supposed antagonists, Krauthammer has chastised "deracinated members of religious minorities" who "insist that the overwhelming majority of this country stifle its religious impulses in public".
Through the eloquent arias – "not 'tirades'," insists Osborne – of Jimmy Porter, it tackles sex, class, religion, politics, the press and the sense of a country stifled by an official, establishment culture.
There is no altering the fact that Zimbabwe is a country stifled of its voice, nor that Holland needed Robert Mugabe's election campaign managers to win yesterday's match.
These days Chen finds his home country stifling and overregulated — "where the heck can a person smoke a cigarette?!" Sometimes basic communication can be a struggle, as Matt Schiavenza found.
The true underlying issues are a crumbling public administration and a political system where a few beneficiaries distort economic flows in the country, stifling development and depleting state resources.
She spoke eloquently to the fact that the current health care system in this country stifles the very entrepreneurial spirit that supposedly characterizes our nation, by preventing small business owners from expanding, due to the prohibitive cost of purchasing insurance for employees.
Mr. Wyden said that he asked Judge Roberts whether he believed states should take the lead in regulating medical practice, and that the nominee replied that "uniformity across the country would stifle the genius of the founding fathers".
Websense had previously withdrawn the use of its technology from Yemen after facing accusations from the OpenNet Initiative, a U.S.-Canadian academic group, and other organizations that it had been used by the government of that country to stifle political expression on the Internet.
