Sentence examples for was stifled with from inspiring English sources
Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill)., meanwhile, compared it to the politics of the Cold War, when dissent was stifled with fear and prosecution, including the hearings led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
During this period, isolated dissent from rank-and-file members was stifled with a heavy-handed letter from the APA attorney threatening legal action or by communications from prominent members of the APA governance threatening "ethics" charges if policy protests were not discontinued.
"I needed to know for the book whether you could be stifled with a pillow.
Competition among firms is stifled, with very high levels of concentration and high barriers to new entrants.
But success is also a powerful incentive, so employees need to be allowed to take risks and not be stifled with controls.
The only values now are cash values; the cities have been stifled with the arrival of the tower blocks; the heart has grown small.
Tudor and Stuart histories insist that the remains contained in an urn designed by Sir Christopher Wren are those of Edward V and Richard Duke of York who were "stifled with pillows... by the order of their perfidious uncle Richard the Usurper", as the 17th-century inscription puts it.
Peaceful dissent should never be stifled with violence.
In the opening scene of "The Pride," Alexi Kaye Campbell's seriously sentimental play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, two men meet for the first time at the house one shares with his wife, and the room is stifling with the heat of the unsaid.
Instead his potential was stifled by a string of injuries, with knee ligament damage snuffing out his faint hopes of making a full comeback in March 2012.
