Sentence examples for of a stranglehold from inspiring English sources
But then his vision of how football should be played, how English football had to break out of a stranglehold of stale tradition, was never quite lost.
Israel will try to keep enough of a stranglehold on Gaza to prevent Hamas from prospering, while avoiding a full-scale flare-up.
But they seem to have more of a stranglehold over art in America today than any high modernist critic ever had, as is obvious from the new displays at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
That Russia and China are now wealthy enough to offer help to crisis-stricken governments should be welcomed by anyone who wants the west to have less of a stranglehold on economic and political power.
Wasps' director of rugby, Dai Young, said: "They had a bit of a stranglehold on us in the first half, and you have got to give them a lot of credit.
It was important for our growth ambitions to make inroads into this geography before other competitors beat us to it and got too much of a stranglehold on the market".
BP has been accused of taking a "stranglehold" on the Iraqi economy after the Baghdad government agreed to pay the British firm even when oil is not being produced by the Rumaila field, confidential documents reveal.
There was little argument that the club's policies and procedures should be reviewed, but what was asked of them was a stranglehold: more security; more searches; reporting of the smallest drug finds; an astonishingly unworkable request to create "periods of calm" in which they stop the music and put the lights up.
Incumbents in the New York Legislature enjoy job security that many would envy, with gerrymandered districts and fund-raising advantages helping most of them keep a stranglehold on their seats.
Until recently fear of failure had a stranglehold over my life.
"We need to make sure consumers have as many choices as possible at the lowest prices, and that no airline or small group of airlines has a stranglehold on the market," Klobuchar said in a statement.
