"stifle expansion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to prevent or hinder growth or progress. Example: The government's strict regulations on businesses have stifled expansion and innovation in the economy.
The Fed, in expectation of a higher inflation rate, could respond with rate increases that might stifle the expansion.
Despite universal acknowledgement that Americans enjoy a free, open, and vibrant Internet, the FCC is relentlessly pursuing a massive regulatory regime that would stifle broadband expansion, create congestion, slow Internet speeds, jeopardize job retention and growth, and lead to higher prices for consumers.
The short-term worry is that weak exports, a rising dollar and a slowdown in energy investment (because of falling oil prices) will stifle the American expansion.
Neither group should be asked to abide by a moratorium that stifles the natural expansion of either population.
If the Fed moves to raise rates to head off inflation, it risks stifling the unprecedented economic expansion in the U.S., now in its ninth year.
The Bush administration and representatives of the utility industry have strenuously defended the new rules, saying that the old standard was confusing, costly and inefficient and that it stifled power-plant expansions.
And that suits many operators -- supported by some customers -- who do not want assisted living centers regulated closely, fearing that they will become mirror images of nursing homes and that the industry's expansion will be stifled.
The State Senate president, John J. Cullerton, Democrat of Chicago, said he was recently approached by a lobbyist hired by a Wisconsin casino who hoped to stifle competition by derailing Illinois's expansion of gambling sites.
This is a major expansion of copyright, and it stifles creativity.
Because Hinkley stands to cost the taxpayer more than the Channel Tunnel, the Olympic games, Heathrow expansion and Crossrail combined, it would inevitably stifle all these emerging technologies for the whole of its heavily subsidised 60-year life.
