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While Diamond himself didn’t have interest in the adult bookstores or shops he represented, he saw attempts to stifle them as trampling on hard-won 1st Amendment rights.

He said the solution was to close the tracks "stifle the supply and kill the demand for these dogs".

That stifled voice might find comfort in watching Ritchson’s brawler get his bell rung and refuse to back down from the inevitable conflict that might break him.

Antigrowth social reform has also done its part to stifle housing inventory, increase rents and limit migration from town to city.

It was all football fans tricking out their Ford Escorts, and I just felt stifled.