The burden of payroll taxes, together with overweening labor market regulation, stifles entrepreneurship.

Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.

Sami smothered Layla with a pillow.

And she looks back at recent history to compare the terror that has gripped her hometown

This stifled the development of all religion in Madagascar.

Economic strangulation of North Korea appears to be the fallback option.

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

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

Choking off the flow of information leads to distortion, not confidence.

In both Tunisia and Egypt, the authorities have strengthened macroeconomic policy and moved to open the economy.

Of course, state intervention in the economy risks asphyxiating the dynamism of Brazil s companies and private initiatives.

This misalignment of incentives stifles many economies.

The police choked the brothers with plastic bags. They drove needles under their fingernails, and then tore them out.

By all accounts, that point has not been reached.

The case of beheading of a 6 year old occurred in Amabatolampy, a suburb of the capital Antananarivo in June.

It is a product of the hostile United States policy aimed at stifling the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Ortega is wagering that attacking Bush will resonate with the Sandinistas and provoke them to close ranks, thereby stifling internal party dissent.

A consumption tax hike should be timed in such a way that it does not suffocate the economic recovery that Abe s bold economic program, dubbed Abenomics, is facilitating.

Either way, a rise in long term interest rates is liable to choke off the recovery.

Better to let the Americans do it, though of course these Shi a leaders prefer a slow strangulation of al Sadr to a direct and bloody assault.

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

Rigid rules and distant policymakers merely suffocate the animal spirits of the business class.

The US pushed for elections in Palestine, but then championed the financial strangulation of the newly elected Hamas government.

But if monetized fiscal deficits are allowed to run, the increase in long term yields will put a chokehold on growth.

The government can, say, impose zoning regulations, help small retailers find specialized niches in the market, or provide skills training to displaced workers.

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.

And crude attempts by governments to enforce regulation are likely to prove ineffective in protecting against catastrophe, while all too effective in strangling growth.

A deep political crisis ensued, characterized by the stifling of public freedoms and the arrest of politicians, opinion leaders and intellectuals. Clandestine movements emerged, and a number of coups d'état were attempted.

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.

The 1965 Kosygin reform aimed for partial decentralization of the Soviet economy and shifted the emphasis from heavy industry and weapons to light industry and consumer goods but was stifled by the conservative Communist leadership.

Other sources say that the chicken's severed trachea could not properly take in enough air to be able to breathe, and it therefore choked to death in the motel.

Unfit for modern markets, France s tax system actually stifles the country s businesses, reflected in a disturbing increase in bankruptcies among small and medium size companies.

Although Schumpeter brilliantly captured the inherent dynamism of entrepreneur led capitalism, his modern real successors smothered his insights in their obsession with equilibrium and instant adjustments.

In agriculture, it protects the world s rich farmers by stifling opportunity for the poor, at a cost of some 280 billion a year to taxpayers and consumers.

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.

Sudden fiscal contraction would reduce domestic aggregate demand faster than the economy s deleveraging and structural shifts could replace it, thereby killing off growth and hiring, with adverse feedback effects on budget deficits.

Recent studies show that once a government s debt burden reaches a threshold perceived to be unsustainable, more debt will only stunt, not stimulate, economic growth.

Faced with unemployment close to the post WWII maximum, Barack Obama s administration has delayed adjustment in order to avoid smothering recovery.

Under the Employment Insurance Act, the Canada Employment Insurance Commission has established Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM) that provide active measures designed to assist unemployed Canadians return to work.

It is impossible to silence independent politicians and independent media without choking off independent sources of money, which is why Putin s Kremlin has concentrated its attacks on the so called oligarchs.

They have embarked on the normalization path by hiking official interest rates in order to nip inflation in the bud, thereby preventing price volatility from choking off future economic growth.

These superfunds, whose managers do not necessarily share the same passion for profit as private investors, are said to be squeezing the life out of interest rates and exchange rates.

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.

Or, if these deficits are monetized, high inflation may force up long term interest rates and again choke off economic recovery.

Throttling Ukraine s economy and political system need not have been Yushchenko s legacy. After he came to power in 2005 on a huge wave of popular support, he started off well.