Tom tried to strangle Mary.

It can stifle public debate.

I'd like to strangle her.

It was hard to resist the impulse to wring Tom's neck.

It was difficult to restrain myself from smothering Tom.

Tom just tried to choke me.

One Facebook user threatened to choke her.

To stifle the independent judiciary and free media.

Central government can easily starve the regions and local communities of their lifeblood.

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

A Facebook post in Malayalam threatening to choke Inji Pennu on Miami beach.

In the past, the regime has tried to stifle the independent media, especially during the last election cycle earlier this year.

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

Bubble pricking may indeed choke off growth unnecessarily and at high social cost.

As its power grows, China seems determined to choke off Asian competitors, a tendency reflected in its hardening stance toward India.

Christopher Columbus's The Idiot's Guide to Killing a Shark Barehanded and The Twenty Ways to Strangle a Giant Squid both went on to become bestsellers.

As expected, the solidarity that the state wanted to control has been felt not only in Tucson but in several regions across the United States.

Cases tend to drag on for years, creating an environment that can be used to the advantage of those who seek to stifle critical reporting through criminal acts of intimidation.

It is also filled with propaganda. A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy s was speaking a half century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.

The authorities like to paint themselves as the victims of a powerful giant set on smothering a nation and its united people, but such a victim's face cannot be found when you look closely.

As pathetic as that group of people who call themselves Cubans, and who gathered around the leader of another country to beg him to economically strangle their own.

She was aware that when they met joy lit up her eyes and drew her lips into a smile, but she could not hide the expression of that joy.

Lako Bukia, a 28 year old British and American educated Georgian designer featured at London Fashion Weeks, asserts that economic conditions threaten to stifle homegrown talent.

A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy s was speaking a half century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.

Germany s Foreign Ministry is preparing a policy on Russian German relations that will enshrine indifference to Putin s lawlessness as being in the national interest of the most powerful member of the European Union. But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.

With Europe in a cyclical upswing, tax revenues should start rising even without higher tax rates, so why risk strangling the continent s nascent recovery in the cradle?

But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.

Indeed, Kuwait refuses to forgive Iraq s Saddam era debts, and is building a port at Mubarak al Kabir, which Iraqis view as a naked attempt to suffocate Iraq s already limited access to the Persian Gulf.

Wherever I look among the details of violence, blood and death in Syria, I come across crazy stories of love, brave as a rose stubbornly growing, despite the weeds and thorns trying to suffocate it.

But public anger over sky high price growth precipitated by the oil crises finally allowed central banks to tighten credit and smother inflation with massive global recessions.

Saudi power and US acquiescence managed to stifle democratic agitation in the Gulf, but the region s dynasties cannot expect to slip history s noose once and for all.

Ahead of presidential elections later this year, the leaders of the Guinean republican opposition met in Paris on 22 and 23 March, where they declared that they are taking steps to stifle the dictatorship which is emerging in Guinea.