Luetkemeyer introduced legislation to stifle Operation Choke Point, which would have dramatically curtailed the government's ability to detect and prosecute money laundering.
But the town attorney, Herb Kline, said the discussion before the board was invariably split, as was the town, and the policy was not about stifling a point of view.
Recent events have brought home just how vital it is to focus on changing the way we debate and challenging those who use personal attacks, harsh tactics, or vulgar language in an effort to stifle opposing points of view.
The contrast between Laura and Alec's thwarted passion and the rampant randiness of the station staff clearly makes a point about stifling, middle-class conventions; it is also a slightly tendentious one, since neither of the other couples is currently married.
"Stifling growth at this point in the economic cycle is not a smart idea".
Point being, stifling defenses have a way of making offenses look inept.
The Knights' two constants this season have been stifling defense (allowing 53.6 points a game) and the all-Big East forward Shawnetta Stewart (15.3 points, 6.5 rebounds).
Smith also grumbled that legislators could use mercantilist logic to justify stifling regulation.But Smith points out circumstances in which government interference is necessary.
Rather than take the court with sluggishness and ruin another valuable effort, they rolled to a 108-80 victheir their largest margin this season, with stifling defense, sizzling 3-point shooting and crisp ball movement before 13,962 fed-up fans at the Bradley Center.
Bronstein, working with a scant budget (that he met by working as a projectionist), filmed a young man named Keith Sontag who is stifled to the point of furious agitation (played by the director's cousin, Dore Mann) as he endures a mounting range of humiliations in his romantic life, in his relations with an abusive roommate, and in his cultlike job as a door-to-door salesman of discount coupons.
