Sentence examples for maintain its stranglehold from inspiring English sources

And like a dragon guarding its hoard, it has striven primarily to maintain its stranglehold on enterprise, which makes up the vast majority of Microsoft's treasure intake.

"The internet, and social media in particular, has made it impossible for Israel to maintain its stranglehold over information," Greenwald told me.

How long will Google maintain its stranglehold on both the volume and speed of data storage and retrieval?

That strategy is either the cost or the result (take your pick) of permitting the tea party to maintain its stranglehold over the party with a level of extremism that frankly boggles the mind.

The tyranny depends on collaborators to maintain its stranglehold.

For years the National Rifle Association has maintained its stranglehold on national politics by convincing politicians that it is politically invincible.

On the debit side, isn't this just another means of Hollywood maintaining its stranglehold?

But the Roman Catholic Church, still maintaining its stranglehold on Quebec society, controlled social life from birth to death, ran schools and hospitals, censored the press and kept a tight lid on the intellectual and artistic pot.

Since then, the town's maintained its stranglehold on the American mushroom industry with shocking tenacity.

The Oil Eight -- and dozens of other contrarian think tanks -- are shilling for an industry that will do whatever it can to maintain its excessive profits and its stranglehold over our political system.

Russia is resolute in stopping the Nabucco project going ahead in an effort to maintain its dominance, particularly after its gas flow "stranglehold" in the region was broken earlier this year following separate gas deals between the EU and Turkey, and China and Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, respectively.