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Le Figaro of Paris said the West has no choice but to continue fighting and quoted a Provençal proverb: "Once one has started suffocating the cat, one has to finish it."
Yoffe suggests that truth can be found just as easily in tabloids as in traditional publishing outlets; a less determinedly shallow analyst might wonder if the dominant role of money is suffocating the truth in both venues.
Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.
In the primary, he can tell liberal voters that Bradley's health insurance plan would suck up all the oxygen in the budget, thereby suffocating the left's favorite programs.
In 1579, seven provinces north of the Rhine conclude the Treaty of Utrecht, releasing the suffocating grip of Spanish rule.