Sentence examples for and stranglehold from inspiring English sources

It won't be long before borderline illiterate half-wit blowhards like me, with our fat salaries, expense-account lifestyles and stranglehold on the means of expression, become obsolete.

They don't want any restraints on their profiteering and stranglehold on the economy.

As the IRGC military influence and stranglehold is escalating in several countries - including in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen - its need for financial means is increasing.

High taxes and rents, baroque zoning laws and the stranglehold of unions and environmental regulation are enough to terrify most outsiders.

And they ignored Sanders's warnings about decline, too, when he talked about the growing economic divide, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the stranglehold of corporate interests over politics.

A further result, since the artists escaped from the tyranny of palace walls too, was to break the aristocratic and princely stranglehold on art patronage and allow the rising bourgeoisie a look-in".

More freedom and independence for Americans from a non-health care system, from economic exploitation, and the stranglehold of big oil, and hope for the planet that is stewing in its own juices.

The occupation of the West Bank and the stranglehold on Gaza by Israel, and the suffering that results for both Israel and the Palestinian people, remains the central issue.

Nadal defeated Ferrer, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in cold and wet conditions by providing a tricky lefty matchup and dominating Ferrer's second serve, which led to eight breaks and a stranglehold on the final outcome.

It helps break the "priesthood of the pundits" – he means Fleet Street – and its stranglehold on the agenda.

Never mind crushing inequality, obvious prejudice and a stranglehold on well-paid jobs by the privately educated.