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Example sentences for: stifle

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But there's no doubt that the law's vagueness does indeed make it more likely to stifle someone's freedom of expression.
Encyclopedias, after all, are middlebrow, bourgeois books that tend, in the end, not to promote intellectual inquiry on the part of the people who use them but rather to stifle it.
The academic community is protesting a new law that will require all recipients of federal research grants to make their research data public through the Freedom of Information Act . Researchers fret that corporate and political interests will use the FOIA powers to stifle research on controversial subjects by bombarding them with information requests.
Unless Starr manages to push the perjury issue back to center stage, Mrs. Clinton's defense of her husband will stifle the public's appetite for further investigation.
Thus, the NIH appears to reward experience and proven results very heavily, which may stifle innovation and likely serves as an innate barrier for younger physician-investigators contemplating research careers [9].