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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."
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.
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.
After Krueger drank the beer and whiskey, he consumed some spiced rum provided by another brother and fell into a coma, suffocating on his own vomit.
Autumn days are blinding in their goldenness, pretty girls suffocating in their softness, young executives crucifying in their crispness.