We welcomed the collapse this month of two flawed bills to prevent online piracy, bills that could have stifled speech and undermined Internet safety.
If there's any justice, Mann, whom Bronstein found working in a supermarket, will get an award for his transfixing performance; his clenched jaws, squinting eyes, and stifled speech avoid all stereotypes as he brings the character to life from within.
Mann, a distant cousin of Bronstein's, delivers a transfixing performance; his clenched jaws, squinting eyes, and stifled speech avoid all stereotypes as he brings the character to life from within.
To tar homosexuals as despised villains, Bahati and his goons have to create a repressive culture where free speech is stifled, LGBT people can't come out, pro-gay allies are punished for "promoting" homosexuality, the media is cowed, and a robust smear campaign is relentlessly waged with no opposition.
Most off-sites are intended to generate fresh ideas, but creativity is quickly stifled amidst clichéd leadership speeches.
Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.
His protagonist, Keith Sontag, is a monster of stifled pain, afflicted with a speech impediment that swings between a choked stutter and an uncontrollable word-torrent and burdened by a mass of childhood traumas that poison his every move.
Large pockets of the world, like North Korea, Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Uganda and Congo, where women are subjugated, speech is still stifled, men are not free and children enslaved.
When Mick took his teenage son Johnny in his arms last week and delivered the sweetest, sofa-side, "it's OK son, Daddy still loves you, there's nothing bad about being gay" speech, encouraging him to come out through both of their stifled tears, the hairs on the back of my neck stood upright.
He remained stifled, shy.
Iraq under Mr. Hussein had a stifled quality.
