Sentence examples for were stifled as from inspiring English sources

Opening gains were stifled as Wall Street lent more weight to the housing report than the latest weekly data from the Labor Department, which showed 530,000 new unemployment claims, down from 551,000 a week ago.

Many of us are emotionally stunted adults because we were stifled as kids.

As we see vividly across the Middle East, when forces for change and new ideas are stifled as completely and for as long as they have been in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, sudden and jagged change becomes increasingly likely.

There were stifled guffaws from the get-go as the do-gooder facilitator introduced the show.

Meanwhile, Union armies in the West were stifled, especially in their efforts to take Vicksburg, Mississippi.

"To a certain degree, the reporters there feel like their creativity is stifled because of that".

Peggy tries to explain, she really does, that she's been stifled, that she has little agency in her life.

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.

The feeling of being stifled and anxious.

Under such regimes, of course, individualism was stifled, and there were no basic civil liberties.

They produce one-dimensional golf where creativity is stifled and hacking the ball forward is the only option.