Sentence examples for is in a stranglehold of from inspiring English sources

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

"Democrats want to keep the heat on Republicans," he said, "and half of the GOP members of the house are in a stranglehold caused by fear of being primaried by the far right".

There is a stranglehold of 'identity politics' on the student movement".

The National Union of Students has rejected a call to condemn militant group Isis on the grounds that the motion was "islamophobic", in a move which has promoted campaigners to accuse the body of being in the "stranglehold" of divisive "identity politics".

"We were in a fiscal stranglehold, we were thinking more about how to keep the economy alive".

Sure, there is clearly a need for additional capital directed toward consumers who are in a credit stranglehold.

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

Mookie's motive is the death of his friend Radio Raheem, who is killed in the stranglehold of a policeman.

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

In 2007, a video game sequel titled Stranglehold was released, which is in the process of being made into a film.

That challenge has been portrayed through the traditional lens of party politics and economic management, whereby what is at stake in Brazil is simply the stranglehold of the ruling Workers Party (PT) over the presidency and economic management.