Sentence examples for got a stranglehold from inspiring English sources

This time a fire started late on Sunday night and quickly got a stranglehold on the endearing mixture of Victorian and 20th-century buildings at the end of the pier for the same reason that the town acquired the longest pier in the first place.

This is really where the values and the vision of the American people are, but it's a political system which is thoroughly hijacked and corrupted by big money that's got a stranglehold around the two political parties.

The pragmatists and cynics, who have gotten a stranglehold on the culture, will scoff.

These are all the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system".

Yorke and Godrich warned that Spotify represented "the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system".

"There clearly is a danger now that iPhone is going to get a stranglehold of the U.S. smartphone market," Mr. Kuittinen said.

"There clearly is a danger now that iPhone is going to get a stranglehold of the U.S. smartphone market, and I don't think operators are crazy about that," Mr. Kuittinen said.

The national trash companies "have gotten a stranglehold on the city, and now they are holding up the city like the mob never could," said Gerald Padian, a lawyer who represents local trash haulers.

The operation is part of a concerted attempt by the US and its allies to destroy al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) before it gets a stranglehold on Yemen.

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

These are all the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system..".