Sentence examples for in a stranglehold from inspiring English sources

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

That person who has you in a stranglehold doesn't actually want to kill you.

"Faith leaders" have held the government in a stranglehold for too long.

The goal is to get your opponent in a stranglehold until they "pass out or tap out".

I suffered from a mental illness for about four years, gripped in a stranglehold of control, starvation and numbers.

Collins used hers to tour constantly and to make album after artful album, even though drinking had her in a stranglehold.

I keep hearing "mixed economy", but make no mistake - we are hurtling towards the American model, where the wealthy pay even less tax in return for a stranglehold on cultural institutions - a phenomenon we see across our society and one that risks driving division ever wider.

This in turn puts a stranglehold on its employment market.

That is why, from ancient times, those in power kept a stranglehold on capital markets.

Then Stomp came in and put a stranglehold on the place.

Today, the whaling industry in Japan maintains a stranglehold on government and is very lucrative.