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  • Stifles a yawn as he slowly walks from the room, quietly closing the door behind him.

    IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS * Act I , scene 3 2010

  • Stifles urge to make tasteless joke about Baron Franz von Nopcsa.

    Science Diversity Meme - Women Scientists ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Rickshaws Drive Entrepreneurship GES Winner Stifles Bollywood Piracy The Awards, in Their 10th Year When he looked more closely, he found enough air embedded in the waste to keep the system partially aerobic.

    Innovator Finds Clever Way to Wash Water 2007

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Hand Over Your Broadcast Equipment\': Pakistan Stifles Media, Cuts Phone Lines '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Pakistan\'s Electronic Media Regulating Authority (PEMRA) issued an order that bans the media from making any reports "that defame or bring into ridicule" President Pervez Musharraf, his administration or the military.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'Hand Over Your Broadcast Equipment': Pakistan Stifles Media, Cuts Phone Lines 2007

  • Stifles her stench of goat, he too is kilt by his gout.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • Well-Oiled Security Apparatus in China Stifles Calls for Change China, most of those who poured into squares and shopping centers were police officers and plainclothes security agents.

    NYT > Global Home By ANDREW JACOBS 2011

  • "How Superstars' Pay Stifles Everyone Else" Dec. 26, which described how salaries at the very top of the scale - whether in business or in sports - have soared in comparison with those in the rest of the range.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • When I read the title of Michael F. Cannon's piece at Cato, "ObamaCare's Threat to Free Speech," I wasn't the least bit surprised; I had already read Michael Barone's "Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare" and had recognized the beginning of Obama's war on free speech back in October 09 when the Obama Administration actually co-sponsored an anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations, aimed mostly at stifling criticism of Islam.

    Hyscience 2010

  • Stifles and hocks well bent and not inclining either in or out.

    unknown title 2009

  • Slow Chip Stifles iPhone 3GS Upload Speeds - The "S" in iPhone 3GS stands for "speed," but it could very well stand for "slow" if you look at the dated chip it uses for uploading data.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

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