I began to yawn uncontrollably around Kempton Park, which apparently is what dogs also do when anxious they yawn uncontrollably.

Indeed, the younger generation of Americans has greeted military action abroad with a yawn.

Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.

Yasheng Huang Does democracy stifle economic growth?

Such a blatant attempt to curtail scientific inquiry and stifle free speech seems inexcusable.

She tried to stifle a sneeze during the concert but she couldn't hold it back.

His goal? To stifle the independent judiciary and free media.

Curtailing prices, they say, would choke off R D and stifle innovation.

But it is the agenda of pending reforms that should stifle excessive complacency.

South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself.

A global economy that recognizes the need for and value of institutional diversity would foster rather than stifle such experimentation and evolution.

Erdoğan has also misused the legal system to stifle the media and repress citizens freedom of expression.

Ms. Hart (Canada) expressed opposition to procedural motions used to stifle debate on serious human rights concerns.

Rather, he embodies a new version of an old breed of Latin American populist presidents, notoriously impatient with dissent and quick to stifle criticism.

If both sides can stifle their murderous deviances, the hope of cultural and political reconciliation will be reborn.

This would undermine other economic sectors competitiveness and stifle export oriented manufacturing growth, thereby stalling these economies structural transformation.

But it is also important not to do it too soon, which might stifle today s nascent and very fragile recovery.

Continuing discrimination against women in access to education, health care, land, credits and productive means stifle reconstruction and development efforts.

It is depressing to see a scientist even a highly politicized one calling for a latter day Inquisition. Such a blatant attempt to curtail scientific inquiry and stifle free speech seems inexcusable.

The case highlights the growing land disputes in the country and the use of violence by government forces to stifle dissent

What are being sold as free trade agreements include IP provisions that could stifle access to affordable medicines, with a potentially significant impact on economic growth and development.

The PC has become the modern equivalent of cotton so basic has it become to our lives that, despite the fact that around 200 million PC s are sold each year, it now simply generates an electronic yawn.

An agenda that powerful corporate interests would rather stifle might be a bitter pill for world leaders, but it is one that they should swallow sooner rather than later.

South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself. If not addressed through direct measures, all of Asia will suffer.

Oppressive, blanket regulation, which may be necessary in complex and unpredictable financial markets, may not be relevant in a rural community or, worse, it may stifle efforts to promote financial inclusion.

And all else being equal, there is no guarantee that blocking the service will help to stifle communication among violent extremist and organized crime groups.

But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.

Reporters without Borders lists Saudi Arabia as an Enemy of the Internet in its 2012 list of countries that censor the Internet and stifle free speech.

But when we stifle, step by step, all that remains of a free press, when even small television channels that provide uncensored information seem dangerous, we are keeping the lid firmly on the pot.

And so the debates about copyright, digital rights, so on and so forth these are all about trying to stifle, in my view, these kinds of organizations.

According to the European Parliament, his detention is part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

According to the European Parliament, his detention is part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

According to the European Parliament, his detention is part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

According to the European Parliament, his detention was part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February s rigged elections demonstrate.

However, in some countries, employers may be hindered by unnecessary reporting and excessively detailed regulations that stifle the growth of private businesses and, by association, new job creation.

Instead, it should pursue a balanced intellectual property regime because knowledge itself is the most important input in the production of knowledge, a badly designed intellectual property regime can stifle innovation as has been the case in America in some areas.

Collusion between private firms is a significant source of foreign anti competitive behaviour increasingly resulting in price and market rigging of cartels across developing countries that stifle competition in the markets of both developed and developing countries.

But the bigger issue is that global gridlock is going to stifle economic growth and our ability to deliver food and health care, particularly to people that live in city centers.

For example, we know that we should lower interest rates and inject liquidity to fight stagnation, and that we should raise policy rates and banks cash reserve ratios to stifle inflation.

Frankly, when I think of stagnating innovation as an economist, I worry about how overweening monopolies stifle ideas, and how recent changes extending the validity of patents have exacerbated this problem.

Recent studies by the IMF and others suggest that raising taxes, cutting subsidies, and reducing government spending even inefficient spending would stifle growth in the short term, exacerbating the underlying debt problem.

In addition, Member States must act swiftly and effectively to eliminate sources of financing for terrorists, dismantle their logistic support networks, stifle their propaganda apparatuses and stop them from recruiting new terrorists.

The most successful societies of the future will leave room for experimentation and allow for further evolution of institutions. A global economy that recognizes the need for and value of institutional diversity would foster rather than stifle such experimentation and evolution.

The problems are clear. But addressing them requires a prudent strategy that accounts for the structural fragility of the scientific enterprise, in which scientists must complete extensive training, regulation can easily stifle creativity, and funding limitations can substantially delay progress.