suffocating

Unable to demonstrate the attraction of its suffocating embrace, or the value of its Eurasian Economic Union, Russia believed it had to use force to keep Ukraine by its side.

“I email all day, every day. I’m behind a screen all day, every day. It gets suffocating,” Middleman said.

"As soon as I wake up, I go to a cafe. I tried libraries and study cafes, but they felt suffocating," she says.

“Beating around the bush can be really suffocating,” said Jules, 17.

Leveraging an atmosphere of social panics, Johns pioneered the practice of scapegoating Black, queer and Cuban minority groups — or even targeting and suffocating individual citizens, such as teachers, using all the weight of the state.