Under the stifling, consensus-based post-war system, based on a Social Democrat-People's Party duopoly, mentioning the issue smacked of bad manners.
Unresolved conflict often results in loss of productivity, the stifling of creativity, and the creation of barriers to cooperation and collaboration.
Introduce a third seller, however, and the stifling equilibrium is broken as a series of market-energising relocations and pricing changes kick in.
And it has the greatest concentration of creative talent, most of it foreign, thanks to the stifling rigidity of the French educational system.
She defeated Venus the previous day, but her win over the Russian gave her older sibling hope of progressing in the stifling heat of Qatar.
Masha's arrival unsettles the stifling life of Vanya and Sonia.
When I interned there, there were times when my bosses would wear comfy cotton (to beat the stifling hot weather) but would also carry Prada or Louis Vuitton bags.
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House Republicans and their Wall Street minders who want to further expand the stifling bureaucracy of the SEC never liked the rules the SEC had to craft for Dodd-Frank.
In the stifling heat, both sides made a sluggish start but it was something of a surprise to see Mulgrew booked for time-wasting at a throw-in after just four minutes.
It is not yet clear whether its dismembered bits will turn out to be serious rivals, and whether the bracing winds of competition can substitute effectively for the stifling hand of regulation.
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His health advisers would also like to deregulate the health-insurance market, freeing it from the stifling rules, imposed at state level, that can raise the cost of an insurance plan by as much as 15%.
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She and her mother-in-law took the 10-hour bus ride down to Camp Bucca in the stifling heat of summer, only to find that she was not on the list of those authorized to see her husband.
Relying less on catenaccio, the name for the stifling brand of defense played in Italy, than sides in the top tier, Serie B teams often appeal to the purists because of their more open, less predictable games.
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Carriers, naturally, don't want hard caps at all, citing the stifling effect they'll allegedly have on infrastructure development, but at any rate, the EU's getting back together on May 2 to have another go at the negotiations.
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All day Sunday, the maul continued - the stifling tension peaking as the last frame was whittled agonisingly down to the black, which was chased around the table until Taylor smoothly potted it at 11.23pm - to the delight of a late-night television audience of many millions.
Pointing out this scheme takes nothing away from the stifling Pacers' defense, which has an elite paint protector in Roy Hibbert and is historically rare in the sense that it ranked No. 1 in the league at both guarding the rim and limiting makes from the three-point stripe.
Mr Jobs says that the majors risk stifling the new market, and also that they are plain greedy.
In fact, the increasingly stifling patent regime is driving Silicon Valley down the same dysfunctional path that the rest of the economy is on.
But the visitors who came out for the second half with the greater intent, stifling the much-vaunted Irish backline - despite losing centre Will Carling to gastric 'flu - and confining the home side to their own 22 for the last 10 minutes.
At the same time, the Fed is stifling and distorting the availability of bank credit.
Around 1820, the vogue in Europe was the "stifling box, " a sealed container submerged in boiling water.
So the shade trees protecting the coffee plants became overgrown, stifling the plantation and causing a shade-loving fungus to damage half of his plants.
The potential stifling effects of free-riding cannot be overstated.
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He said he agreed the deficit had to be reduced but said the government's plans risked "stifling the fragile recovery".
Finally, the book will outline how to keep corporate bureaucracy from stifling the life out of creatives.
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And when it comes to acquiring a player with a track record, the Yankees usually get their guy, even if it means overpaying and stifling the growth of young talent.
Holding on to the emotion, stifling it and letting it seep into your interactions indirectly is not the solution.
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The England Saxons coach feels that pressure on referees to award penalties for infringements is stifling the game and a different system could help.
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