Word: inhibitive
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...courtyard, and because some of my friends felt the need to emphatically justify the police reaction to me. While the incident itself may not have been racially motivated, there are undercurrents of race in the discussion, and the more we dance around them, the more we inhibit our ability to have frank conversations as one student community. In ignoring these issues, we demonstrate a—perhaps sometimes well-meant—cultural insensitivity. That many students refuse to openly acknowledge potentially racial aspects to this discussion, and yet touch fleetingly on race when they poke fun at the culture...
Djousse said the association between whole grain consumption and reduced heart failure risk is caused by nutrients in the whole grains, such as fiber and certain minerals, that lower blood pressure and inhibit overeating, thereby impeding weight gain...
...other Friday—and every Friday at the end of the year—at no cost. It was a successful idea that both popularized the pub and, more importantly, promoted camaraderie amongst the senior class. Yet this year, the program was dramatically changed in ways that will inhibit senior class bonding. While last year a large swath of the senior class participated in Upper Hall, this year only 100 subscriptions were sold in addition to eight special mugs reserved for class marshals and 48 for House Committees to distribute at their discretion. To make bad go to worse...
...write about myself, and I am at a loss. That’s why I’ll defer to Calvin, who declares “that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity...
...people out. They are rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn to and benefit places that inhibit them less. Lu Yang, Singapore