| stifling heat | 3.55 | This stifling heat is intolerable. | ||
| stifling defense | 1.91 | Remarkable rebounding and stifling defense. | ||
| stifling dissent | 0.79 | Increasingly, Akayev is stifling dissent, and more and more voters see him as corrupt. | ||
| stifling competition | 0.72 | When questioned by Boies about stifling fair competition, Gates would get petulant. | ||
| stifling growth | 0.72 | They are struggling with record unemployment, which is stifling growth. | ||
| stifling effect | 0.66 | Sea breezes are known for soothing the stifling effects of heat near the ocean. | ||
| stifling humidity | 0.59 | The stifling humidity, the cockroaches, geckoes and toads. | ||
| stifling atmosphere | 0.46 | Turkmenistan, a one-party state, has the most stifling atmosphere. | ||
| stifling bureaucracy | 0.46 | ...a stifling bureaucracy. | ||
| stifling opposition | 0.39 | Ruling party lawmakers in Zimbabwe passed two laws Thursday aimed at stifling opposition to Mugabe. | ||
| stifling summer | 0.39 | High ceilings mitigate the stifling summer heat. | ||
| stifling demand | 0.33 | They avoided inflation, but only at the cost of stifling demand and growth. | ||
| stifling activity | 0.26 | The government is running out of foreign money to buy reals, and the high interest rates have been stifling economic activity. | ||
| stifling air | 0.26 | Oscillating fans stirred the stifling air, but at night, it often grew too hot to sleep inside. | ||
| stifling condition | 0.26 | Not everyone was put off by the stifling conditions, however. | ||
| stifling day | 0.26 | On a stifling hot day at Metropolitan Golf Club, Leonard appeared to be toast. | ||
| stifling freedom | 0.26 | The opposition has accused authorities of stifling freedom of speech in the past few years under the pretext of maintaining order. | ||
| stifling pressure | 0.26 | It took a wild ride under stifling pressure for people to take notice. | ||
| stifling room | 0.26 | But sleep was impossible in the stifling rooms. |