Sentence examples for a stranglehold of from inspiring English sources

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

Amnesty International warned in a new report this week that the siege had meant a "stranglehold" of the city.

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

But then his vision of how football should be played, how English football had to break out of a stranglehold of stale tradition, was never quite lost.

He has won eight of the last nine games and has taken a stranglehold of this final, despite the tight scoreline.

"There clearly is a danger now that iPhone is going to get a stranglehold of the U.S. smartphone market," Mr. Kuittinen said.

WARREND: Couldn't China have a stranglehold on many of the manufacturing sectors of the world economy that would give it enormous economic power?

More to the point, though, it represents an alternative to the handful of ISPs that currently have a stranglehold on much of the US market.

In our country of Ethiopia, the government maintains a stranglehold on freedom of expression.

Or will the Cards take a stranglehold on the best-of-seven Series?

Specifically, Rome could start untangling the bureaucracy that ensnared Ikea and put a stranglehold on thousands of smaller Italian companies.