Sentence examples for stifling said from inspiring English sources

"We'd come home in the summer, and the house would be 115 degrees, stifling," said Mr. Waldrep, a regional manager for a national company.

"The government has gauged the mood and things may be getting a bit stifling," said Lisandro Pérez, director of Florida International University's Cuban Research Institute.

"Poor people are poor because they're stuck in an environment that is stifling," said Iqbal Z. Quadir, a former New York investment banker who returned to his native Bangladesh in 1996 to build a rural cellular network with Grameen Bank.

"You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling," said Ms. Valenti, who teaches a gender and pop culture class at Rutgers.

They agree with Ben Bernanke that regulators can easily move too soon, thus stifling, say, useful technological innovations.

"Microsoft has lost the legal battles, but it is winning the war of attrition in the industry, stifling competition," said Ken Wasch, president of the Software and Information Industry, a trade group.

The amount of paperwork and red tape is stifling, they said, and far more depends on European Union regulations and subsidies than a farmer's desire and ability to work hard.

"Many of the past mistakes took place because dissent was stifled," she said.

This may stifle competition, said Dr. Jeremy I. Bulow, an economics professor at Stanford University.

The plan could "unduly stifle" capital," said Troy Paredes, the Republican commissioner, who added that "room still exists for the S.E.C. to exercise discretion".

If the feature were limited to just one phone, like the next Samsung phone, its potential would be stifled, he said.