Sentence examples for which is stifling from inspiring English sources

First, tackling the volume of regulation, which is stifling innovation, investment and productivity.

He then follows this up with the revelatory observation that England's players "seem to be gripped by an anxiety and tension which is stifling their performance levels", but admits he doesn't know why.

As it proved with a rally on March 23rd to commemorate Israel's assassination a decade ago of its then guiding light, Ahmed Yassin, it can still muster a massive show of support.But it is being severely weakened by Egypt, which is stifling all movement across Gaza's southern border.

It added that the US, the UN and the EU would give guarantees to the two sides that the talks would cover, as Israel demands, a demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip and, as Hamas is demanding, the lifting of Israeli and Egyptian border strictures, which is stifling Gaza's economy.

The only way of dealing with these man-made emergencies is to get rid of the underlying causes: the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and the closure of Gaza which is stifling the economy, increasing poverty and unemployment, and forcing even greater dependency on aid provided by the international community.

Our financing system is increasingly risk averse, which is stifling entrepreneurship and innovation.

It is a source of trade and capital for the Syrian economy, which is stifled by socialism and corruption.

They personified everything young and fun about the fledgling web, a loveable antidote to that darker technological force, Microsoft, which was stifling the first popular web browser, Netscape, just as Yahoo! went public in 1996.But times change.

"The government is concerned about the burdens that ill-conceived cases are placing on stretched public services as well as the unnecessary costs and lengthy delays which are stifling innovation and economic growth.

He called recent criticism of UKIP "political correctness gone mad", which was "stifling the debate on racism".

The Guardian's political editor Anushka Asthana this week reported that the Labour MP Yvette Cooper has called on police and prosecutors to unmask the true extent of online harassment, which she says is "stifling debate and ruining lives".