If his courtiers cannot force the King, they can smother him with protection.

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He was due to attend a psychiatric assessment on the day of his wife's death, after attempting to smother her with a pillow two weeks earlier.

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But resist the urge to bring out your sharp pencils and smother the program with traditional CFO-type financial analysis.

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Though they argued that paying writers for online projects would smother the new medium with financial burdens before it could really take off, the opposite may happen.

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As the economy teetered at the edge of the abyss Helicopter Ben flew into action, flooding the planet with liquidity determined to smother any hint of demon deflation under mountains of fresh greenbacks.

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