The resulting stultifying regulation has inhibited research and development, particularly in public institutions, ever since.
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Gone are the Devils who employed that stultifying neutral-zone trap and relied on Brodeur and their defense to save them.
And yet, to his credit, he did not relish life in the stultifying European Parliament as some Lib Dems seem to.
But the FF, inching through the stultifying heat for hour after hour, behaved impeccably: no glitches, no coughs, no smell of burning flesh emanating from the vents.
At least for now this icon of German industry is thriving despite being based in a nation suffering from low economic growth, the worst unemployment in decades and stultifying regulation.
This is because the pulp archetypes of human persuasion fall victim to excessive dumbing down some of the scientists, like the crew headed by Idris Elba's Janek, talk like middle-school dropouts or to stultifying self-seriousness.
Town hall-style debates tend to involve less tough questioning and more pandering than other formats, and the restrictive ground rules set in place for this one promised to make it even more stultifying than usual.
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In his view, a cluster of cultural prejudices have steered many potential tradesmen into college, and then toward stultifying office jobs, which provide less satisfaction and less security than skilled manual labor, and sometimes less money.
Just as predictably, his weaknesses were stultifying rhetoric (phrases such as "net inward migration" and "proportional representation list system" abounded) and an inability to think on his feet (he struggled to respond to Mr Cameron's frequent attacks on his tax plans).
National soccer cultures tend to cultivate their own particular neuroses: the English crumble at the penalty spot, the Dutch care more about how their team plays than whether it wins, and the Brazilians ceaselessly alternate between two styles of play: soulful and stultifying.
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