The Wrights' preoccupation with the legal issue stifled their work on new designs, and by 1911 Wright airplanes were considered inferior to those of European makers.
The result is exactly the same when your meetings ramble, waste time, avoid tough issues, stifle creativity and evade or delay critical decisions.
In response to the issue of stifling non-native video ads, Pakes acknowledged that the site did indeed prioritize videos uploaded natively, but that Facebook does so because auto-play simplifies the viewing experience of those who watch a ton of videos on the site.
In fact, beyond the Camby situation, Van Gundy seems to be doing a lot of very bright things, overcoming, for example, such obstacles as injuries and religious issues, the stifling of Vaulting Vince Carter, and a weaving of substitutions in combat that would have made Chief Sitting Bull sit up.
He has since turned into a standard-issue autocrat — hoarding power, stifling dissent, spending the nation's oil wealth on political support.
The University and College Union, for instance, which represents the lecturers in higher and further education expected to implement the Prevent duty, have called it a "draconian crackdown on the right to debate controversial issues" and that it "risks stifling our right to question and challenge ideas with which we disagree".
"In many ways it is the politicization of the climate issue that has stifled discussions of new and innovative policy options," Roger Pielke Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado commented after reading the speech.
In Turkey, public debate on the issue has been stifled.
Mr Gallagher thinks the social pressure to adopt a high moral tone produces an unattractive level of hypocrisy, stifling public debate on moral issues.
The wider issue remains whether the cut-throat nature of some institutions is stifling young academics.
