Sentence examples for of the stranglehold from inspiring English sources

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

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a leading gun control advocate, described the defeat as a "damning indictment of the stranglehold that special interests have on Washington".

"The situation here in New York is yet another manifestation of the stranglehold that political parties have on election administration — a stranglehold which is choking our democracy," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York.

Does the FCC really want to concentrate more power in their hands?" Evan Greer of digital rights group Fight for the Future, said: "It was a pretty clear example of the stranglehold that telecoms money has on the FCC.

Deon Lombard, an architect from Twickenham, is sceptical that the Dutch approach will work in Britain because of the "stranglehold, inherent conservatism and lack of vision in the British planning system".

Even though its members may try to lose themselves in the blankness of places like the Mojave Desert, they're not about to wriggle free of the stranglehold they have on one another.

Even good writers fall prey to the stranglehold of scientific jargon.

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

Romanov took control of Hearts in 2005 with the ambition of breaking the stranglehold on the Scottish title enjoyed by Glasgow duo Celtic and Rangers.

Maps has green-lighted a deal with OpenStreetMap, raising the possibility of breaking the stranglehold on mapping data in the UK.

The National Union of Students has rejected a call to condemn militant group Isis on the grounds that the motion was "islamophobic", in a move which has promoted campaigners to accuse the body of being in the "stranglehold" of divisive "identity politics".