Sentence examples for stifling influence from inspiring English sources

We are back in nineteen-fifties Newark, and nineteen-year-old Marcus Messner, the son of a kosher butcher, attempts to escape his father's stifling influence by enrolling at a college in Ohio farm country.

When former president Hu Jintao visited for the 15-year celebrations in 2012, he was met with hundreds of thousands of protesters, marching against what they saw as Beijing's stifling influence on political reform in the city.

A common family of arguments, inspired by Wittgenstein's famous remarks about games (Wittgenstein, 1953), has it that the phenomena of art are, by their nature, too diverse to admit of the unification that a satisfactory definition strives for, or that a definition of art, were there to be such a thing, would exert a stifling influence on artistic creativity.

Hirsi Ali sees herself as the true heir of the Enlightenment, which sought to rid itself of the stifling influence of the clergy and superstition.

Mr. Robertson and anti-abortion advocates have said those restrictions would stifle their influence and were one reason they opposed Mr. McCain.

Yet, the rapid manufacture of a national controversy in this case reveals, once again, the tenuous state of academic freedom on our campuses and the ease with which extra-academic influence stifles free debate.

Contrarily, other critics have argued that, at the same time, the ESRB rates certain games too strongly for their content, and that its influence stifled the viability of adult-oriented video games, due to the board's restrictions on how they are marketed and sold.

Any and all religious institutions must be opposed from influencing laws or stifling freedoms.

Others suggest the considerable influence of western diplomats is stifling the growth of democracy in Kosovo.

But isn't there also a risk that government influence in health care can create bureaucracy, stifling innovation and the adoption of new medical technologies?

For much of the past half century, the LDP has dominated the political landscape with the not inconsiderable help of Japan Post's vast assets and political influence while efficiently stifling public dissent from its wayward members.