Sentence examples for potential stranglehold from inspiring English sources

Western capitals have suddenly grown worried over China's near monopoly, which gives it a potential stranglehold on technologies of the future.

The United Nations itself, where President Obama will preside over a Security Council meeting, is doomed to remain a paper tiger as long as its human rights potential is stifled by the stranglehold maintained by anti-human rights bureaucracies such as the UN's misnamed Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The little fish are so addictive they have the potential to undercut fried calamari's stranglehold on bar menus.

It is in the longer run that COPE may have the potential to break the ANC's stranglehold on power.For the ANC seems to be sinking deeper into a mire of corruption.

The public, like industry veterans and seasoned experts, seems to grasp the potential: the Volt could revive Detroit's fortunes while loosening OPEC's stranglehold.

The potential economic damage is enormous, including the loss of timber stands and a stranglehold on the movement of nursery plants in order to prevent the disease from spreading.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who will preside over the ceremony on 2 March as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's first black president, has already hailed 12 Years as a potential game-changer for black film-makers, and one that may begin to loosen the stranglehold that white, mainly male executives have over the industry.

Anxiety lost its stranglehold.

Pythons have a stranglehold in Florida.

What will it take to break UConn's stranglehold?

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.