Sentence examples for his stranglehold from inspiring English sources

His stranglehold on this remote community has been challenged before.

With time, perhaps the king will relinquish his stranglehold on the country's politics, too.

His grip on reality is perhaps weaker than his stranglehold on his country.

Sheik Aboughreis had resented Colonel Qaddafi for years, in part because of his stranglehold on religious expression.

His stranglehold on the business further loosened through the decade and, in 2000, his GP-brother Philip became director of the sex and mortar empire.

Andy Murray maintained his stranglehold over Albert Montanes yesterday with a 7-5, 6-3 victory in the second round of the China Open in Beijing.

On what could be a dreary day in Queens, Empire Maker will spend his afternoon not going after glory, riches or a coronation, but merely stretching his muscles and staying sharp in an attempt to maintain his presumed stranglehold on the 3-year-old division.

On an earlier trip, he granted me an interview but found talking about himself unrewarding – "Mais je parle trop!" And though I had a commission from an editor who hoped he would dish the dirt on Pierre Boulez and his quasi-stranglehold on French musical life, Dutilleux wouldn't hear of it, insisting on Boulez's courtesy and consideration.

Because of his party's stranglehold at village level, its members can decide on entitlements such as places for children in school and the distribution of food handouts.

The Canadian poker professional Jonathan Duhamel won the World Series of Poker main event title and $8.94 million Monday night in Las Vegas after keeping a stranglehold on his chips and pressuring his opponent.

In the decades and years that have followed his exit, the Old Firm stranglehold has yet to be broken.