Sentence examples for something of a stranglehold from inspiring English sources

Suddenly Russia, which at the moment is the chief supplier of gas to Europe, looks much less powerful – though the practicalities of ports, storage, pipelines and so on mean that it will have something of a stranglehold over Europe for some years to come.

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.

Free Press argued there was no content because of a "stranglehold on distribution".

A black president has been re-elected, but financial elites have never had more of a stranglehold on American priorities.

HP: Democrats have somewhat of a stranglehold on Chicago politics in particular, how did you get involved with the Green Party?

Now they argue distribution doesn't matter because of a stranglehold on content (by the same people, no less).

The patchy form of Contador and Nibali, combined with the stranglehold in which Sky quickly grabbed the race, made it something of a no-contest.

Until recently fear of failure had a stranglehold over my life.

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

He added: "There is a stranglehold of 'identity politics' on the student movement… essentially the idea is widespread that if a liberation officer opposes something, it must be bad".