Sami smothered Layla with a pillow.

This stifled the development of all religion in Madagascar.

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

Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I noted to DeWalt that self strangulation was impossible, he said he would get back to me when the inquiry now including a Naval criminal investigation was completed.

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.

In the Committee's view, the resulting lack of appropriate skills and leadership in the youth in the years to come is a matter of great concern and could contribute to the slow asphyxiation of Palestine.

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.

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 Jay Treaty of 1794, led by Hamilton, brought peace and trade with Britainwhile Madison, with strong support from Jefferson, wanted to strangle the former mother country without going to war.

For starters, we can certainly expect a continuation of the so called currency wars, in which countries strive to keep their exchange rates from appreciating too rapidly and choking off exports.

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.