Sentence examples for stifling progress from inspiring English sources

Global warming is causing irreversible damage to the environment, poverty and greed is stifling progress and corruption is rife.

The Queensland Resources Council's chief executive, Michael Roche, accused anti-coal groups of stifling progress in the untapped Galilee Basin.

But occasionally, they can backfire, stifling progress and limiting potential because no one thought to question them.

If they fail to make any real headway in the next two years it will be easy to blame them for inaction and stifling progress.

It is the role of government to de-risk this kind of innovation, according to Pilu, who says the law is currently stifling progress.

Given the changing landscape, some suggest expanding retail choice, arguing that the utility monopoly model is stifling progress and innovation, and slowing the transition to a cleaner energy future.

Assumptions can stifle progress and limit potential when no one thinks to question them.

"The investment environment remains toxic because of corruption scandals, policy inertia and fierce political opposition have stifled progress on reform".

I have also come across people who have clung to power when challenged by their juniors – and have stifled progress.

In science, controversy often stimulates innovation; however, the intensely divisive debate over mammographic screening has had the opposite effect and has stifled progress.

And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors".