Sentence examples for stifling restrictions from inspiring English sources

He is also a chief princely supporter of close ties to the conservative Sunni religious establishment, a sceptic on women's rights, and the main architect of increasingly stifling restrictions on freedom of speech.

Along with Khrushchev, he helped roll back some of the stifling restrictions on nationalism and culture imposed during Stalin's time.

For them, religion offers an alternative both to the stifling restrictions of the New Order and to the slavish aping of western models.

"Freezing the carbon floor price is simplywas code for letting polluters pollute while clean industries suffer ever more stifling restrictions," added the organisation's economics campaigner, David Powell.

There is an entire underground market built to counterbalance the government's stifling restrictions, allowing them to purchase the red meat and fish they can't otherwise afford, access flash drives filled with popular U.S. TV shows to compensate for their five biased national channels, and exchange foreign cash without having to pay the bank's ridiculous transaction fees.

It's no accident that the rational dress movement of the 1890s found common cause with women embracing the freedom machine as an escape from the stifling societal restrictions placed on women of the time.

Instead, we have politicians like Romney carrying water for the fossil fuel industry by advocating a rollback of carbon pollution regulations on the phony grounds that the restrictions are stifling the economy.

The private sector is "stifled by Israeli restrictions on access to natural resources and markets," it said.

Stifled by the restrictions of her life in a small, provincial village, she longs for adventure and companionship.

The changes will affect not only Iran, but Sudan and Cuba as well, countries where free internet use has long been stifled by US restrictions.

Johnny and Tunny flee a stifling suburban lifestyle and parental restrictions, while Will stays home to work out his relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, Heather.