Sami used a pillow to smother Layla.

They were also used to block the voices of the developing countries.

If they have a wifestrangling contest, I mightjoin that.

Terror and violence are routine methods employed to stifle the courageous people of Haiti.

Erdoğan has also misused the legal system to stifle the media and repress citizens freedom of expression.

Yet today, not only are many of Ukraine s neighbors silent about Yanukovich s strangulation of Ukraine s democracy, but some openly celebrate the supposed stability that his regime has imposed.

This is clearly an attempt by the Syrian Government to strangle the economy of Lebanon by impeding trade across their border, which is Lebanon's gateway to the rest of the Arab world and a means of continuing to interfere in Lebanese affairs.

But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's policy of Songun Jongchi which is to say, to give priority to military affairs is aimed primarily at coping with the attempts of the United States to suffocate the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which constitute a real threat.

We hold that this sacred forum, where peace loving, independent and sovereign States meet to discuss ways and means for accomplishing the noble aspirations of mankind, should never be used as a political tool for a few countries to stifle the small and weak countries.

This proves that the United States is resorting to means of pressure, not to means of negotiations in the settlement of problems and the Security Council has been appropriated for the schemes of the United States, a belligerent party against the DPRK, to stifle the socialist system of Korea.

The districts referred to by the representative of Azerbaijan were the territories surrounding Nagorny Karabakh, which had come under the control of the Armenian population of Nagorny Karabakh as a result of the war unleashed by Azerbaijan in an attempt to stifle the peaceful exercise by the people of Nagorny Karabakh of their right to self determination.