| Seething with frustration, harboring squelched ambition, and recovering from triple bypass surgery, he is the poster boy for stress. |
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| However, there is also countervailing evidence to indicate that when concentration is extreme, innovation is squelched. |
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| In the 1980s, a series of Rottweiler attacks squelched that breed's popularity, after what had been a meteoric rise. |
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| She squelched back to the car sobbing unrestrainedly, dried and changed out of her wet clothes wailing and cursing. |
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| Her toes squelched against the damp sand, leaving a snaky trail of footprints. |
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| Among other reasons, I'd be too afraid that people will get lulled into apathy again if reports about possible terrorist attempts get squelched. |
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| Such possibilities, combined with a poor climate for agriculture, squelched widespread agricultural development. |
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| A Ste Anne-area man convicted of arson last spring had his bid to overturn the ruling squelched in Manitoba's highest court last Wednesday. |
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| But the BCFL and the social-democratic NDP have squelched even a protest campaign against the government. |
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| Richard and Dawkins tried to protest, but one look from the commander squelched their arguments. |
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| Johnny, however, knowing how Jelly couldn't keep a secret, just gave him a look that squelched any further protests. |
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| Price caps have squelched investment in energy and led the treasury to subsidise fuel imports. |
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| Undervalued Canadian imports forced down prices, squelched market share and gave our farmers no choice but to grow less hard red spring wheat. |
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| The president has likewise squelched nearly all criticism, having chased out most dissidents. |
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| He was grounded for a few days, but fortunately for us, and for politics, his irrepressible good humor could not be squelched. |
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| With eyes screwed up and mouth clamped shut, I squelched in and gingerly submerged myself. |
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| But it is unclear if the shelling has squelched an Islamist-inspired insurgency. |
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| Regulators in Florida have squelched local utilities' plans to build new reactors. |
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| The war proved that the fighting spirit of my tribe was not squelched through reservation life. |
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| Thus all organisations are steered from above and any initiative from below is squelched. |
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| An affair that blossoms in his 40s and is quickly squelched by a departmental rival serves as his single true illumination. |
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| The horses' hooves squelched in the muck of the roadway as they crossed to the south end where a faint light glimmered past the edge of the last house. |
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| At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions. |
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| I think it's a shame that there is a lot of information collected by good people within the department as to what the impacts currently are, and yet that's being squelched. |
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| Public sector workers are feeling squelched and squeezed as the Conservatives seek to remold government agencies and the non-profit sector to fit their ideological priorities. |
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| Since the report rebuts everything Bush and his associates have been saying, it will probably be squelched. |
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| But a stop at a recruitment office squelched that idea. |
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| The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless. |
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| Years of socialism have squelched the entrepreneurial spirit. |
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