Sentence examples for economic stranglehold from inspiring English sources

Chechen leaders see the road as a way to break Russia's economic stranglehold on their land.

Clearly, Mr. Abbas stands to suffer the greatest loss of face from efforts to loosen his economic stranglehold on Gaza.

A DOZEN or so years ago, Latin America slipped free from the shackles of dictatorships and the cold war, and from the economic stranglehold of protectionism.

Cantacuzenus also tried but failed to weaken the economic stranglehold of the Genoese by rebuilding a Byzantine war fleet and merchant navy.

I've met David Willetts, and read The Pinch, his thoughtful and salutary consideration of the economic stranglehold enjoyed by baby boomers.

And now it has fallen to the unlikely person of Mr. Saakashvili, an outsider in Ukraine, to try to break the economic stranglehold of those ultrarich insiders.

Specifically, Stein talked about workable plans to create peace in the Middle East, a plan that includes nuclear disarmament, a call to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and a loosening of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization's economic strangleholds on the globe's most vulnerable nations.

This economic-political stranglehold appears headed toward creation of a North Korea-style dynasty.

Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez commented, "Calling for austerity while living in opulence has been common practice for Cuban leaders for more than half a century". This economic-political stranglehold appears headed toward creation of a North Korea-style dynasty.

Another Power established in Danzig could, if it so desired, block Poland's access to the sea and so exert an economic and military stranglehold upon her.

The new sanctions, bringing to more than 100 the number of regime figures targeted by the EU, showed a resolve, said Hague, "to intensify the pressure, the economic and diplomatic stranglehold on this regime".