Sentence examples for long stranglehold from inspiring English sources

PAGE D1 Sports READYING FOR THE END Of American Olympic Dominance The United States' long stranglehold on athletic dominance in the Summer Olympics is loosening.

The grocery chain's competitors are luring shoppers away with lower prices, threatening to unlock its long stranglehold on the market for organic food, according to a new note by analysts at Wolfe Research, a New York investment research firm.

"Only a sick judge would say so," replied the man who in 1998 dared to challenge Dr Mahathir's almost 20-year-long stranglehold on power.

It was in the preparation of that race and its aftermath that Mr. Wallace committed two betrayals -- one personal and one political -- that blemished his reputation for life, but also gave him a generation-long stranglehold on Alabama politics.

The simple explanation for this Guinean euphoria is that they are elated to see an end to the 24-year-long stranglehold on power by late president Lansana Conté.

When you are 74, as he is, and you are a socialist from Vermont, it is hard to make you out to be Richard Daley or some other political boss," he added, referring to the former Chicago mayor famed for his decades-long stranglehold on the city's political machine.

At 10-apiece with 15 minutes left, there was a genuine possibility of them breaking the Black Ferns' long-time stranglehold on this event, a 59th-minute try from Charlotte Barras having transformed the contest.

In the case of 3D printing, for instance, long-held strangleholds on the technology are slowly being broken.

POLITICAL leaders in Michigan and elsewhere have long questioned the stranglehold Iowa and New Hampshire have on the presidential nominating process.

I.B.M. introduced a line of mainframe computers last week, and analysts said the success of the new line was crucial to the future of I.B.M., which has long maintained a stranglehold on the high end of the computer market.

While iOS has long had a stranglehold on developer revenue (its customers love spending money on apps), this may not hold as true if its market share continues to decline and Android reaches more and more people globally.