| It primarily occurs in the shoulder or elbow joints, but it can affect the hocks or stifles, too. |
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| They want to be hip and happening, but the peer pressure of a myopic public usually stifles a sense of invention and experimentation. |
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| Promotion by seniority, waiting for dead men's shoes, is a sad blow to efficiency, for it stifles initiative and offers no incentive. |
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| Factional power stifles internal debate, runs roughshod over democratic processes and promotes disenfranchisement. |
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| Second is the breaking up of media conglomerates, which stifles diversity of opinion. |
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| With regard to the physical conditions in schools, some think that schools are overpopulated and that this stifles learning. |
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| Just as over-regulation stifles business, so this proposal will suffocate art. |
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| The argument that regulation stifles financial innovation I find ludicrous. |
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| This low interest environment presents a great challenge to the industry and stifles growth. |
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| This is because, generally speaking, the educational system of North America is squeezed indoors to a degree which stifles young minds. |
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| The rain stifles the updraft, reverses it into a downdraft and kills it. |
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| Most economic regulation stifles market forces, either by mollycoddling banks or constraining them. |
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| A lack of access to information hinders learning, stifles innovation and slows scientific progress. |
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| The movie is crammed with characters and episodes and yet the unexpressed passion between Inman and Ada which is meant to give a surge to everything we see stifles it instead. |
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| Julia stifles a gasp and puts a hand over her mouth, remaining silent. |
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| Many gamers dislike him, complaining that his bean-counting approach stifles creativity. |
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| We believe that it is also important that steps be taken to deter behaviour that stifles competition and to educate citizens about this act. |
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| Excessive state interference, especially in the form of reckless spending in the economy, stifles everything from innovation to entrepreneurship. |
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| Regulatory frenzy frequently stifles small enterprises, while groups of enterprises can afford experts to take advantage of any loophole. |
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| It stifles economic growth, threatens public health and disempowers nations. |
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| Instead, inconsistent access to resources is to blame, as it stifles any chance of pursuing actions long enough to produce more tangible results. |
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| Moreover, sending a diplomatic note stifles communication at lower levels, as all subsequent communications must go through the State Department. |
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| And this permanent background noise stifles and leaves no room for the words of those who know. |
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| We don't want managers trying to avoid risk entirely, because that stifles innovation. |
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| Corruption prevents rule of law, distorts market and stifles economic growth. |
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| A government-controlled press stifles discussion and quickly loses credibility. |
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| Experience over long years throughout the world shows that protection reduces growth, stifles innovation and retards adjustment. |
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| Over-reliance on petroleum undermines long-term energy security and stifles economic growth. |
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| By virtue of its platitudes, this prevailing air of pan-feminism stifles debate and removes the agency it purports to provide us. |
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| But for Mr Savall memorisation is the same as playing on autopilot, and stifles a necessary element of unpredictability. |
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| Not only does this approach threaten no one in power, but it stifles grassroots activism with its weighty monoculturalism. |
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| The tan line runs down the stifles and from the wrists and hocks to the toes and around the vent. |
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| The Spanish government of the 'People's Front' stifles the socialist revolution and shoots revolutionists. The Anarchists participate in this government, or, when they are driven out, continue to support the executioners. |
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| Mr. Vo Van Ai strongly protested: Vietnam not only stifles its peoples voices at home, but even here in the United Nations, before the Human Rights Council, they blatantly censor the voices of civil society. |
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| Today's debates over the place of religion in modern life often showcase the claim that belief in God stifles reason and science. |
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| Older people, who have time on their hands, may recall the attention of an over-busy society to the need to break down the barriers of an indifference that debases, discourages and stifles altruistic impulses. |
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| What arrests the recall then stifles the mind, A simple non-response of a non-event kind. |
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| Participants argued that the culture of the public service is too often risk-averse, and that this stifles innovative, flexible and practical forms of policy-making and delivery. |
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| Corruption is seen not as a mere inconvenience, but as a cancer that stifles innovation, misallocates resources, and discourages investment. |
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| Critics say it stifles the sort of investigative reporting badly needed after Japan's incestuous politics under the LDP. Even some leading lights of the mass media acknowledge that change may be overdue. |
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| Second, intermediary liability disrupts the free flow of information and services on the Internet and thus stifles creative innovation and economic development. |
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| It stifles economic growth, stunts human development, divides communities, corrodes the protection of essential human rights, and undermines the ability of the international community to tackle transnational crime. |
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| Secrecy stifles oversight, accountability, and information sharing. |
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| All ten councilors agree that the quarrelsome, point-scoring culture of party politics stifles genuine initiative and debate, and should therefore have no place at local level. |
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| Such corruption undermines financial accountability, discourages foreign investment, stifles economic performance, and diminishes trust in legal and judicial systems. |
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| The most valuable directors know how and when to voice dissent and ask thoughtful, nonrepetitive questions in a way that encourages, rather than stifles, discussion. |
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| Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience. |
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