Sentence examples of "задыхаться" in Russian with translation "smother"

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"Кто нам дал право говорить, что они поступают неправильно, даже когда бьют их стальным тросом или выплескивают им в лицо кислоту, если они отказываются от чести задыхаться таким способом?" 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?
Вы видите меня задыхающейся в одежде? Do you see me simply smothered in cloth?
Свобода мысли, свобода печати, свобода собраний - вот те права, на которые напирали чаще всего, возможно потому, что они отражали долгую борьбу за восстановление свободы личности, задыхавшейся при коммунизме. Freedom of thought, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly: these were the rights that have been stressed most often, probably because they reflected the long struggle to restore the individual liberties smothered under communism.
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