But recently Ucas took the unprecedented step of refusing all requests from external researchers for individual-level data, in effect stifling efforts to independently evaluate the extent of fair access to UK universities.
Westergren maintains that the current rates that Pandora pays are making its business unprofitable, and he suggested that the costs have a trickle-down effect: stifling the company's capacity to create new revenue opportunities for musicians.
This in effect stifles the development of newer testing methods.
To reach a verdict in the court of public opinion, we the jury should wait for effects, stifle our passions -- and let epidemiology trump ideology.
In theory, the purchasing power of urban wages increased, but this expansionary effect was stifled by the drastic contraction of agricultural demand for urban commodities (Gatti et al. 2012).
Individual-level interventions may be effective at reducing risk behaviors of MSM and TW; however, these effects are stifled by the absence of higher order structural changes, within social networks, communities, and policies (23).
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.
Regardless of intent, the effect was stifling.
Even seemingly innocuous digital technologies, such as ranking algorithms on entertainment websites, can have the effect of stifling diversity by failing to reliably promote content from underrepresented groups.
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.
