Sentence examples for a stranglehold for from inspiring English sources

"Faith leaders" have held the government in a stranglehold for too long.

News that a product of the area had become a professional footballer spread and became a stranglehold for Roberts.

A media owner shouldn't have our police and our politicians in a stranglehold for fear of their personal peccadillos being splashed over the front pages of a newspaper.

"Chicago police officers and detectives have been engaged in a significant operation to disrupt organized gang activity that has had our communities in a stranglehold for far too long," Superintendent Johnson said.

I suffered from a mental illness for about four years, gripped in a stranglehold of control, starvation and numbers.

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

Yet the so-called extreme sports have not only lured younger viewers to the television set in hopes of catching a glimpse of their Generation X brethren catching air out of the halfpipe, they have also given American athletes a stranglehold on newfangled, made-for-TV winter sports.

Suddenly Russia, which at the moment is the chief supplier of gas to Europe, looks much less powerful – though the practicalities of ports, storage, pipelines and so on mean that it will have something of a stranglehold over Europe for some years to come.

"Our opponent – the Big Taxi cartel – has used decades of political contributions and influence to restrict competition, reduce choice for consumers, and put a stranglehold on economic opportunity for its drivers".

The big four banks have had a stranglehold on the market for too long".

Irish and nativist gangs battle for a stranglehold on muddy, bloody 19th-century New York.