Sentence examples for have been stifling from inspiring English sources

The sense of history might have been stifling for Costa Rica.

The Knights' two constants this season have been stifling defense (allowing 53.6 points a game) and the all-Big East forward Shawnetta Stewart (15.3 points, 6.5 rebounds).

So it is possible that an American policy of containment, even an undeclared one, might lead to a long campaign of attrition of the kind that impoverished Iraq in the 1990s, while leaving its leader in power.Anticipating trouble, Iran's hardliners have been stifling the remaining repositories of dissent as fiercely as ever.

He also finds that the Valakians have been stifling and underestimating the Menk.

Mr Kagame's opponents have been stifled, sometimes literally.

While the foreign media have been given more access, opportunities for citizen journalism have been stifled.

Yet in Britain, our people have been stifled by central controls, regulations and Whitehall targets.

The other teams have been stifled by the cautious play that dulls the group play of all major tournaments.

"The Last Supper" has the defiant and desperate quality of someone whose mainstream efforts to be noticed have been stifled.

Freedom to compete may have been stifled by inadequate regulation, but freedom of expression is mostly alive and well.

A suddenly open mayoral seat is likely to unleash a flood of pent-up ambition among politicians who have been stifled for nearly a generation.