Sentence examples for like a stranglehold from inspiring English sources

I'm not sure the phrase "big four" applies comedy-wise any more – and if it does, they have certainly lost what once seemed like a stranglehold on high-end fringe comedy.

"Like a stranglehold, Styrofoam latches itself around the neck of the environment, shortening its breath and its cries going fainter with each passing day," said a Guyanese Environmental Protection statement issued in January.

This meant that execs like Michael had a stranglehold over deciding what was talent, and how and when the public would see it.

The record is thirteen tracks of tech-laden minimal bass music, dark and heady and comin' up fast on a sound that guys like Icicle have had a stranglehold on over the past few years.

Tell the People the truth about the right-wing conspiracy and what America's future will really look like if the GOP gets a stranglehold on the House, Senate and White House.

Barring a more moderate challenge from someone like Bush or Marco Rubio, Clinton should have a stranglehold over left and the left-center voters.

Even though conservatives have a stranglehold on state government in places like Ohio and North Carolina, public sentiment is a still a powerful weapon.

"In a country where the elite have always held a stranglehold, it was never written anywhere that someone like me could become president," Lula told me as we sat aboard the Brazilian equivalent of Air Force One.

Western producers like Boeing and Airbus Industrie have pushed Saratov out of China, a traditional market, and have a stranglehold on the rest of the world, including developing countries.

Guitar pop, then, is starting to sound like a medium ripe for redemption in 2012 by this fiercely modern outfit with a stranglehold on the classics.

They don't like the stranglehold it has over online bookselling as it is".