Sentence examples for stifled efforts from inspiring English sources

Critics cite the release of Mr. Salsinha and his men as the latest example of crime and no punishment in East Timor, where a series of government interventions have stifled efforts to punish those deemed responsible for crimes during Indonesia's bloody 24-year occupation and during instability since independence in 2002.

Summers successfully blocked Warren's bid to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and stifled efforts by economic adviser Christina Romer to pursue a bigger economic stimulus package.

Meanwhile, Union armies in the West were stifled, especially in their efforts to take Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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

When "Disobedience" concentrates on Henry's stifled fury and on his efforts to make sense of love and loyalty in the face of his mother's rebel streak, this keenly wrought but unfocused book comes closest to striking a raw nerve.

In negotiations over the new United Nations mandate, American officials have demanded that the inspection teams be allowed to take Iraqi weapons experts and their entire families outside Iraq for questioning, to avoid the intimidation that appeared to have stifled testimony from Iraqi experts during inspection efforts from 1991 to 1998.

After I reported that an American company was poisoning its African workers and their families with toxic waste, I was relieved of my responsibilities on the commission, my efforts to conduct an investigation were stifled and I was made a target of personal abuse.

This defensiveness has meant that Turkey has historically stifled debate at home and devoted considerable diplomatic effort to dissuading any further recognition".

The civil settlement, reported by lawyers but not officially announced, comes as prosecutors for the Justice Department are stepping up efforts to conclude a three-year criminal investigation focusing on evidence that the two auction giants stifled competition by colluding on a host of business practices.

He remained stifled, shy.

"It's really stifled cardiac arrest research.