Tex is dead. Smothered.

It was like being smothered.

Sami smothered Layla with a pillow.

Soon this poor villa will be smothered.

Do you see me simply smothered in cloth?

Deflation, on the other hand, increases debt, and feels like being smothered by a lead blanket.

I'll send you back in a week, Fenner, smothered... in gold. Here you are, Mr. Ingram.

We're smothered by images, words and sounds that have no right to exist, coming from, and bound for, nothingness.

Although Schumpeter brilliantly captured the inherent dynamism of entrepreneur led capitalism, his modern real successors smothered his insights in their obsession with equilibrium and instant adjustments.

And who are we to say, even, that they're wrong to beat them with lengths of steel cable, or throw battery acid in their faces if they decline the privilege of being smothered in this way?

And who are we to say, even, that they're wrong to beat them with lengths of steel cable, or throw battery acid in their faces if they decline the privilege of being smothered in this way?

Mr. Chowdhury (Under Secretary General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States) said that access to knowledge was a basic human right that could not be denied or smothered.

Radical proposals that would help restore a more resilient system, offered by the likes of Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, have been smothered by noisy discussion of measures that do nothing to address modern banking s fundamental defects.