Sentence examples for stifled development from inspiring English sources

The Seldon patent, taken out at the birth of petrol and electric cars, stifled development of that new technology.

The industry's jurisdiction extends far beyond the tub, however.For decades, onsen owners have stifled development of a huge potential source of clean energy: geothermal power.

Uganda's government is counting on it to help it address an energy shortage that has stifled development in this country, where rolling blackouts are a recurring nuisance.

Hamilton looked around after independence and saw a country destined to become the greatest empire of the earth (as he put it) but burdened with institutions that retarded social mobility and stifled development.

Perhaps because Cuba has—again, nominally at least—strict environmental laws, or perhaps because the U.S. trade embargo has stifled development, it is home to some of the Caribbean's best preserved reefs.

It can lead to entrenched poverty, stifled growth, and social conflict.

California, by contrast, has all but stifled wind developers.

"Such changes occurred in Western Europe in the early 1980s and, by most accounts, kept unemployment elevated and stifled economic growth".

Tennis's surface variety, the more-than-subtle differences in styles, has not stifled consistency and superstar development for the women the way it has for the men.

These forms of religion and religious practice all stifled individuality and personal development.

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.