Sentence examples for would be strangled from inspiring English sources

'Irrigation,' said the Nevada court, ' * * * would be strangled by the enforcement of the riparian principle.' Twaddle v. Winters, 29 Nev.

Many technology industry executives and financiers warned that if the city's 1.5 percent payroll tax continued to apply to stock options, San Francisco's start-up culture would be strangled.

Unless it adopted orthodox economic policies and quickly cut a deal with its foreign creditors, hyperinflation would surely follow, the peso would become worthless, investment and foreign reserves would vanish and any prospect of growth would be strangled.

"Any such move would be strangled as an embryo," the Guards' official publication has said, according to Alavi.

But writing a few months after the events in Ayodhya, the historian Sarvepalli Gopal feared "secularism would be strangled and India would be heading for a fascist take-over… The siege to the basic concepts on which free India has striven to build herself has become more intense". In the year following the demolition, there were reasons for fear.

Hürrem was aware that should Mustafa become Sultan her own children would be strangled.

"The joke was that the next time he'd be strangled," Mr. Casson said.

First and foremost, federal officials would not be strangled by gag laws which now prevent them from even publicly admitting that marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin.

I would personally love to be strangled by Obama if the end result is that I enjoy record profits, but whatever!

"You know, he'd prefer his son be strangled then spend time with you if he knew that you're gay".

He said the project had been configured to exclude "anyone who is conceivably involved in a crime — a gunshot or stab wound, someone who might be strangled, you wouldn't touch".