Sentence examples for of stranglehold from inspiring English sources

You might think that with that kind of stranglehold on the local name rankings, Michael would dominate the top spot nationwide.

It's more likely he'll raise heck, playing mind-bendingly rapid guitar solos and his millionth version of "Stranglehold" while jumping about in a loincloth.

The key to creating that kind of stranglehold on the software industry is building a company on top of great social, collaborative technology — but also great culture.

Fubar allows me, and more importantly my callers and listeners to have their say in an uncensored and unregulated environment where their voices can be heard without the nonsense aim of impartiality and free of the stranglehold of political correctness.

Murray is entirely deserving of his number two ranking, busting free of the stranglehold of the old big three over the past 18 months, albeit with the assistance of Roger Federer's advancing years and Rafael Nadal's arthritic knees.

Pond said Saarinen's design was by far the best contest entry, that it was devoid of the superficial adornments featured on the winning entry, and free of the "stranglehold of conventional forms".

Ferrante's insistence on staying out of the stranglehold of celebrity culture has been to avoid this scrutiny.

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.

It's not happening because of the stranglehold of fossil fuel companies on Congress.

Farmers here say they share Chinese officials' goal of breaking the stranglehold of international trading companies like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland.

The availability of good technical managers has, to me, always held more of a stranglehold on some hot industries (such as biotechnology) than the availability of technology itself.