Sentence examples for stifling effects from inspiring English sources

(Historians also tend to blame the stifling effects of bureaucracy and authoritarianism, among other factors).

Drake and Cayton described their subjects as less bothered by segregation itself than by its stifling effects.

Even with the defeats of Mr. Murakami, however, his public challenge to the system has helped highlight what critics call its stifling effects.

Also from DRC, the captivating novelist In Koli Jean Bofane (author of the prize-winning Mathematiques congolaises) recalled the Belgian colonial prohibition of education to Africans except trainee priests, and then the stifling effects of Mobutu's dictatorship.

Telecommunications is often held up as the most successful example of the Indian government's ability to free industry from the stifling effects of the so-called License Raj, the traditional practice of doling out permits to make goods or deliver services, often to well-connected families who paid bribes.

Similar careful documentation, though little satire, characterized James T. Farrell's naturalistic Studs Lonigan trilogy (1932 35), which described the stifling effects of growing up in a lower-middle-class family and a street-corner milieu in the Chicago of the 1920s.

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.

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.