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Raising rates now would hurt economic growth in the US and stifle the green shoots of recovery in Europe.
Jake shot a look at them and they abruptly stopped, trying to stifle their laughter.
He almost choked on his meat but managed to stifle his sudden reaction to her statement with a hastily gulp of water.
I stop trying to stifle it when I realize that about half the people in the audience are chuckling.
If America's central bank moves to increase rates sharply, it will derail the economy and stifle any increase in markets.
Despite her ravenous hunger, Alicia had to struggle to stifle her gag reflex.
The bureaucracy, hidden taxes and social-security payments burdening German employers are so onerous, they stifle new enterprise.
But there is a danger that these new regulations will stifle innovation, by forcing everybody to comply with blanket standards of accessibility.
Given the climate and the other equally ridiculous laws being proposed to stifle innovation, my hopes aren't very high.
Today's technology also can interfere with forming solid alliances, which can stifle excellent ideas.
It is, accordingly clear that, within reason, any order that the court makes will not stifle the appeal.
Missive after missive describes the burden of the existing system, and how 20 more years of control will stifle creative work.
After a goalless first half, Ware went all out after the break to stifle Dorking's creativity.
Alas, Tamarillo went down late last night with a knock to the stifle joint incurred over the cross-county and was withdrawn.
It won't stifle you with brilliant play, but it will drive a stiletto beneath your shoulder blade when you're not looking.
Her chest heaved gently to the rhythm of her breathing, but as he crept in further, he had to stifle a scream.
Pressing her hand to her mouth to stifle a sudden cry, Lorna sank into a ladder-back chair.
In this way, they could institutionalize the dead hand of formalism and the fetishism of authority, so as to stifle the process of discovery.
These measures would stifle the BTL market and potentially allow house prices to fall as ex BTL properties flood the market.
I spent this period of instruction trying to stifle yawns and resisting saying how old-hat this all seemed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
So hard it is, even for the most depraved, to stifle the last embers of the moral sense.
Then, the moment I reached home, it seemed to me I should stifle were I to enter the house.
In this present book the illustrative work may be said almost to overweigh and stifle the idea illustrated.
Down there at Vernon, in my frigid room, I bit my pillow to stifle my cries.
Near the stifle it passes between the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle and continues as the tibial.
Because it seemed to me that we were all of us, all day long, endeavouring to stifle the voice.
As He knows so well where to hit us we must stifle our moans when He does so.
It most frequently occurs in the stifle joint, where dislocation of the kneepan takes place.
The interest excited by this living fossil was almost enough to stifle the dread of the creature in the man.
The same evening I returned to malbec with the statuette which was going to stifle all regrets.
All day long he had tried to stifle the cry of that same famine, that same hunger of unplaced energy, by industrious work.
Listening intently, he heard the sound of sobbing which she was endeavouring to stifle.
Branches supply the stifle and the adductor and pectineus muscles.
Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
Why stifle his powers for the sake of a coherence which did not exist!
I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions.
Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars.
Spare yourself the trouble of forswearing yourself and racking your brains to stifle truth with falsehood,' I coldly replied.
Chip made haste to stifle his mirth, in fear that she was going to cry.
The habit of being continually marshalled on opposite sides will be too apt to stifle the voice both of law and of equity.
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