Sentence examples for a stranglehold of fear from inspiring English sources

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

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.

So once again thank you, David Bowie, for the joy of courage against the stranglehold of fear that death can have over us.

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.

Trade and currency movements mean that no one country is ever going to get a "stranglehold" of that sort.

Crucially, the new scheme will be independent of the Communist Party, which has a stranglehold of key state positions.

There is a stranglehold of 'identity politics' on the student movement".

"Democrats want to keep the heat on Republicans," he said, "and half of the GOP members of the house are in a stranglehold caused by fear of being primaried by the far right".

Create an air of fear.