Sentence examples for stifling effect from inspiring English sources

Today this reputation lingers, with stifling effect.

Participants were asked to choose "the main effect of patents on innovation" from a list that comprised positive or negative terms (positive terms: fostering information sharing, improving productivity; negative terms: increase in cost, restrictions on access to information, stifling effect on subsequent innovation).

What do you think is the main effect of patented research tools or prior upstream discoveries? 1) Fostering information sharing among researchers 2) Improving research productivity 3) Increasing research cost 4) Restricting access to information 5) Stifling effect on subsequent innovation 6) Other ________________________________ Q9.

Such restrictions have had a stifling effect on the cultural scene, artists say.

After his death this influence was sometimes held to have had a stifling effect.

The terrain is so familiar that it has a slightly stifling effect, even in Mr. Plympton's demented hands.

Negative regulation by Mpt5 could stifle this effect and stabilize the 'off' state.

Westergren maintains that the current rates that Pandora pays are making its business unprofitable, and he suggested that the costs have a trickle-down effect: stifling the company's capacity to create new revenue opportunities for musicians.

The fact that turning young graduates into debt peons could only have the effect of stifling the imaginations and creativity of a generation – to obvious deleterious economic effects – was not considered an impediment; in fact, it was precisely the point.

Regardless of intent, the effect was stifling.

This mistake, he claimed, had the effect of stifling reform of the law to adequately deal with the rapidly changing social and economic conditions of the late 18th century.