Reflecting on the reasons for David Miliband's defeat in the leadership election, Mandelson frankly admits that New Labour was "too overbearing towards those who wanted quite legitimately to question or debate issues of policy, and they were pushed partly as a result into the arms of those who wanted to strangle New Labour at birth".
They owners have fought a rearguard action for most of a decade to ward off the listing, arguing that it would strangle commercial development of the site.
"The message will be to Israel, if you want to strangle the Palestinian government, then it will collapse".
Oliver Letwin, now a Cabinet Office minister, emerges in official papers publicly released on Tuesday as the man who single-handedly kept the idea of the poll tax alive in the mid 1980s despite attempts by two senior ministers to strangle it at birth.
According to the Versailles public prosecutor, after a scuffle things turned nasty and the woman's husband tried to strangle a policeman.
Consumer groups fretted that if Comcast were to grow any bigger it would eventually strangle the competition.
He could still strangle you to death with his bare hands, but his back hurts a little, and he cares.
Easy money from natural resources is keeping the exchange rate high and inflation up, and beginning to strangle the rest of the economy.For the moment, though, land, labour and most other business costs still seem remarkably low in Russia.
This, they worry, could drive out smaller players and force energy producers to have separately capitalised subsidiaries, and might strangle the market in its infancy.Meanwhile, traders remain innovative.
Anyway... why is it that a monopsony buyer of military equipment, a buyer that puts its suppliers on a cost-plus arrangement most of the time, hasn't managed to kill off innovation in military equipment but a monopsony buyer of health care would strangle all medical advance forever more?The answer seems so perfectly obvious to me that I wonder if I am missing something.
Because the Fed's control over inflation is so well-established, inflation will tend to revert to target despite tightening conditions in labour markets: that's what it means for expectations to be "well-anchored".The Fed simply does not need to strangle the economy any more to get inflation to come down.
