stifle

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• “I regret it, I regret it, I regret it,” she says now of her decision to stifle her voice.

• When the Packers drafted Adams, he assumed their nearly 10-year difference in age would stifle their relationship.

• We felt that the nation was really stifled in every way by the Senators from Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina.

• It clearly showed that granting any one arbiter, especially the government, the power to determine truth and falsehood holds the potential to stifle the truth in another way.

• Edith Bunker kind of did as she was told, stifled herself when she was ordered to do so.

• But the House approved a measure last month to stifle that proposed expansion.

• Just as goals galore have defined this World Cup in Brazil, so too have the men whose job it is to stifle and stop those goals.

• The NY Governor has set off a right-wing firestorm, standing accused of seeking to stifle free speech and political plurality.

• Good technology tends to win out over time, despite all the attempts by the old guard to stifle it.

• He again turns Medicare into a voucher program, a position he had to stifle in 2012, because Romney did not approve.

• It is as difficult at first to stifle the resentment of a wrong done to us as to retain it after many years.

• Up the stairway shot a wavering shaft of flame; the smoke that had been rising to the vaulted dome began to sink and .