Sentence examples for be a stranglehold from inspiring English sources

It wouldn't be a stranglehold – it would be liberating".

Although he said New York has what he believed to be a stranglehold on rap, he also thought Connecticut could be helped by being near such success.

But even as the Bruins put the Leafs in what appeared, at the time, to be a stranglehold in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal, the Leafs surpassed expectations at five-on-five.

"It's been a stranglehold on so many clubs".

It was a stranglehold Hibs could not maintain.

He added: "There is a stranglehold of 'identity politics' on the student movement… essentially the idea is widespread that if a liberation officer opposes something, it must be bad".

More than 100,000 supporters of Hungary's former prime minister, Viktor Orban, rallied here today against what they say is a stranglehold on the public news media by the ruling Socialists.

"I think it is crazy to say, when you've got 18, 19, 20 million people watching the show and getting interested in music again, that it is a stranglehold on it.

There was little argument that the club's policies and procedures should be reviewed, but what was asked of them was a stranglehold: more security; more searches; reporting of the smallest drug finds; an astonishingly unworkable request to create "periods of calm" in which they stop the music and put the lights up.

Historically, though, government's embrace of the academy hasn't been a stranglehold.

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