Sentence examples for effect of stifling from inspiring English sources

The fact that turning young graduates into debt peons could only have the effect of stifling the imaginations and creativity of a generation – to obvious deleterious economic effects – was not considered an impediment; in fact, it was precisely the point.

Releasing the draft, the attorney general, George Brandis, said section 18C of the act had the effect of stifling public discussion and had resulted in censorship, as had been shown in the Bolt case.

This mistake, he claimed, had the effect of stifling reform of the law to adequately deal with the rapidly changing social and economic conditions of the late 18th century.

As the financier Henry Clews put it, "It is marvelous how the idea of large profits when presented to the mind in a plausible light has the effect of stifling suspicion".

In combination with the use of repressive criminal legislation to prosecute journalists, for example in the recent case of Nadesapillai Tissainayagam, this has led in many cases to self-censorship and has had the effect of stifling free and open debate on issues relating to the conflict".

Greenwell has spoken extensively about how the LGBTQ community's political and cultural gains have, ironically, had the effect of stifling many queer writers, causing some to censor themselves in a culture that today sees little value in the "otherness" of queer lives.

Farah et al. recently examined the effect of Adderall upon creativity, a component of cognition stimulants are suspected of stifling, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial [ 61].

Recently, other authors have used the fast spin echo T2-weighted sequence to analyse the effects of stifle flexion angle in the evaluation of the normal canine cranial cruciate ligament [ 18].

Punches like that have a way of stifling ambition.

Republicans accused the Obama administration of stifling religious freedom.

They have accused Republicans of stifling discourse.