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23 examples of Stifles in a sentence

Though independent directors bemoan the studio system and how it stifles creativity, there is at least one thing that the studios have done fairly consistently: they've been able to remind directors that good acting is highly desirable.
But Helene's unwillingness to become Paul or anyone's lover, because of the pain she endured from a previous relationship, stifles a budding romance.
Maybe it stifles the rest of the cast and crew from giving any honest input.
Strict Party control of religious, academic, artistic, and journalistic expression stifles the dissemination of necessary information and creative thought.
This misalignment of incentives stifles many economies.
Because Putin cannot stomach opposition, he stifles the growth of parties.
So why target journalists, small entrepreneurs, and NGOs – an approach that inevitably stifles social and economic life and condemns the country to stagnation?
The pharmaceutical industry will no doubt argue that government engagement stifles innovation.
The basic problem is that the country’s super-generous welfare state (public spending amounts to about 57% of GDP in 2010, compared to 51% in the United Kingdom and 48% in Germany) stifles the growth needed for the euro to remain viable.
Its authoritarian political system stifles private enterprise and innovation.
By de-risking the economic lives of citizens, this social contract stifles entrepreneurship and innovation.
Unfit for modern markets, France’s tax system actually stifles the country’s businesses, reflected in a disturbing increase in bankruptcies among small and medium-size companies.
The burden of payroll taxes, together with overweening labor-market regulation, stifles entrepreneurship.
To insist that all treatment decisions be based on existing best practices stifles this exploration and prevents potential medical breakthroughs.
Objectively, it is difficult to be fair-minded about a gulag state that stifles free expression more thoroughly than the worst Middle East autocrats ever could, and that manages its population’s daily needs in a way that can charitably be described as medieval (a description that could also be applied to its succession process).
3.Top heavy industrial organization - The predominant role of the chaebols - - monumental in concentration and, unlike anywhere, vast in the range of activities run under one centralized, bureaucratic leadership -- stifles the ability to change.
But it will be if it stifles the ability of individuals to create innovations for an open marketplace.
Indeed, there is a growing consensus among economists that the current IP regime actually stifles innovation.
If this stifles individual enterprise, then so be it.
It simply doesn’t work, and, worse still, it crowds out or stifles potentially valuable competing technologies.
Indeed, the predominant view of Arab societies often stifles outsiders’ ability to break free of their belief that Islam confines all Arab women in the same way, when in reality they experience very different conditions.
Happiness almost stifles me!"
I believe that the unhappy man has suffered, that he has severely expiated his faults, whatever they may have been, and that the wish to unburden himself stifles him.