Suddenly Russia, which at the moment is the chief supplier of gas to Europe, looks much less powerful – though the practicalities of ports, storage, pipelines and so on mean that it will have something of a stranglehold over Europe for some years to come.
Macron was celebrated for breaking a stranglehold on the French Presidency that was supposedly held by the two mainstream parties: the Republicans and the Socialists.
"Our opponent – the Big Taxi cartel – has used decades of political contributions and influence to restrict competition, reduce choice for consumers, and put a stranglehold on economic opportunity for its drivers".
"Faith leaders" have held the government in a stranglehold for too long.
News that a product of the area had become a professional footballer spread and became a stranglehold for Roberts.
Why should a lame-duck House, 27 members of which were defeated for re-election, have a stranglehold on our economy?
Three decades of ideologically driven pro-market change, combined with an ever-greater ability of the rich to influence the political process, has created a stranglehold for the top 1% on the political agenda.
In Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp just outside the capital that has been under a stranglehold for six months, life-saving supplies have not arrived despite assurances by the Syrian government last week, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency said Tuesday.
"Chicago police officers and detectives have been engaged in a significant operation to disrupt organized gang activity that has had our communities in a stranglehold for far too long," Superintendent Johnson said.
