Our inner being is being suffocated by our past traumas, our neuroses, our fears, our doubts, and our mental models of the world.
"The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulation," began the accompanying article.
We want to be able to live with the past; what we fear is being suffocated by it.
France go left but they're being suffocated on the touchline and even Fofana can't do anything with it.
It essentially overlays centralised structural and managerial changes on to a service that is being suffocated by spiralling demand in many areas, and huge cuts in funding everywhere.
The talents of some of America's best young players are being suffocated by a process that never lets them be seen.
Whittingdale's team concluded that live music in the UK is being suffocated by paperwork, with even the smallest of performances encumbered by "draconian" and "absurd" restrictions.
And, beginning at the age of sixteen, he often woke with a sense that someone was in the room, or that he was being suffocated, or that helicopter blades were whirling toward him.
"I wish he had spent this money the way a really good Catholic would: helping the poor; helping inner-city schools, which are being suffocated through lack of money; helping the aged and the infirm.
The girl who is being suffocated feels "my very self, fluttering in my chest and trying to get out of there, exultant, like it had been living in the wrong person and was finally going home".
