The phrase "stifled from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something was prevented from happening or continuing due to external forces. For example, "She was stifled from making any comment due to the oppressive atmosphere of the meeting."
Wenger was answering an unspoken question: If Barcelona is being stifled from playing its natural game, could Arsenal emerge as the champion of stylish creation?
"There's this realization – gun owners know their rights are under attack – but there's a bigger issue out there: that people are feeling suffocated, whether it's businesses being stifled from regulation, Obamacare or being told how much soda we can drink.
But what Mr. O'Neill describes in Mr. Suskind's book is not the executive branch of a democratic government so much as an old-school dictatorial corporate monolith where any serious debate, whether about economic or foreign policy, is stifled from the top.
This guarantees that men and women of sufficient character to bring about innovation will be psychologically stifled from an early age.
IRB members are also not compensated for their services, however, and outreach programs or community mobilization programs by the IRB are sometimes stifled from lack of funding.
For miles around, the atmosphere was stifling from it.
Coleman's players were stifled, apart from Bale, who did his utmost to drive the team.
Howls of anguish, cheers of victory and stifled yawns from supporters of both sides echoed round the internet.
It has also stifled competition from long-distance upstarts by forcing them to pay ¥3.55 a minute for the privilege of connecting to its local lines four times the going rate in America.
Stifling competition from often inferior product from abroad.
The format and overall tame questions nonetheless stifled most contenders from having a "moment".
