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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.
As America's unofficial central banker, Morgan tried to rein in the excesses of the business cycle, stifle speculative manias, control corporate competition, keep the currency "sound," and stop panics.
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.
His job is to stifle "bimbo eruptions" by uncovering dirt about the accusing women.
She is the colony's "canary in a coal mine": If the Chinese stifle her, it will be a sure sign that Hong Kong is in trouble.