Stifled in a sentence as an adjective

I wish better ***** existed, but research in the field has been stifled.

After couple years, things will get so stifled to the point of what OP was experiencing.

Britain has a lot to offer the world, and it has been stifled by its vain and inward-looking leadership for far too long.

Yeah, if I wanted to be in such a stifled repressed environment I would have stuck with finance or accounting. I'm a woman- making bawdy jokes is part of my culture and personality.

I have a problem with how they've done those things, and all of the potential innovation they've stifled in the process. Look at some of the lawsuits they've been involved in, or some of the promising projects they've killed by acquisition.

I think that creativity in adults is often stifled because they don't want to "get it wrong". People are afraid of trying their hand at a new skill or taking a risk on a new idea because they are "realistic" about their chances of success.

I think that creativity in adults is often stifled because they don't \n want to "get it wrong". People are afraid of trying their hand at a \n new skill or taking a risk on a new idea because they are "realistic" \n about their chances of success.

Amazing technology and engineers stifled by poor product folks and clueless executives.

Unfortunately I just don't see any change on the horizon, so it's just as likely things will only get worse and worse, and innovation will be stifled even more.

There is no reason we need to sit around waiting for a monopoly to self-destruct, paying monopoly rents and having progress stifled in the meantime.

The danger of a gatekeeper like Apple on the iPhone is that innovation is stifled, Lilly argued." These vertical silos don't enable innovation," he said.

I could make a case for London that would go like this: There are brilliant programmers in places like Italy and Poland and they feel stifled in their home countries, so they escape to London. Many of them would prefer to go to the USA but the USA's strict immigration policies keep them out.

His creative intelligence, stifled by too much theory and too many grades in college, would now become reawakened by the boredom of the shop. Thousands of hours of frustrating mechanical problems would have made him more interested in machine design.

Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

But the need for Net Belligerence only arises in stifled and monopolized markets. The solution would be to break open the myriad of rules that make it hard for independent ISPs to expand: from local right-of-way's to utility poles to telecom regulations.

I found a porn mag in the park once when I was maybe 9 and the next several years of my life were filled with confusion and stifled curiosity. Being that I'm Indian my parents did not want to even think that I would ever want to know anything about women until age 30, when they would marry me to one of their friends' daughters just after we both finished our residencies.

Trade guilds completely stifled the advancement of technology. Patents broke them by offering a government-guaranteed but temporary legal monopoly instead of a permanent monopoly which required constant vigilance.

From the micro to the macro perspective, religious TDD introduces an constant factor slowdown for small projects that yes, ends up being a net win in the long run if you live with the code for long, but is a net loss in the short run and also can prevent you from finding a solution to a problem since your creativity is stifled by the slow speed of idea development. Second, when building web applications, building tests turns out to be fairly overrated.

Stifled definitions

adjective

held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"

See also: smothered strangled suppressed