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How to use the word stifles in a Sentence?

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Republican governors across America are leading the charge in defending liberty and security unmatched economic prosperity in our states, the Biden administration is governing from the far-left, ignoring the problems of working-class Americans while pushing an agenda that stifles free speech, free though, and economic freedom. The American people have had enough, but there is an alternative, and that’s what I look forward to on Tuesday evening.

– Kim Reynolds

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Republican governors across America are leading the charge in defending liberty and securing unmatched economic prosperity in our states, the Biden administration is governing from the far-left, ignoring the problems of working-class Americans while pushing an agenda that stifles free speech, free thought, and economic freedom. The American people have had enough, but there is an alternative and that's what I look forward to sharing on Tuesday evening.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[ Counterfeiting ] causes genuine economic losses which hurts foreign direct investments and stifles innovation.

– Ashifi Gogo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …

– Justice Anthony Kennedy

added by Normando
4 years ago

In all these years I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia, because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.

– Italian President Sergio Mattarella

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The IRS hurts the American dream, The IRS takes money out of the pockets of hard-working Americans, The IRS reduces their take-home pay, The IRS stifles economic growth.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If the university prevents a movie like that from being show – it promotes intolerance and stifles dialogue and debate – and goes directly against the atmosphere that the University of Maryland is supposed to support.

– Breyer Hillegas

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

– Flannery O'Connor

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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