The word "stranglehold" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a situation in which a person or group has complete control and power over another person or group. For example: "The company had a stranglehold on the local market, making it impossible for any competitors to enter."
Sky already markets itself as Europe's biggest content producer, largely because of its stranglehold over rights to the Premier League.
James added that 9/11 was "just the tip of the iceberg … but how do you break this stranglehold on humanity?
They need his charismatic leadership to break the stranglehold the National Front holds on power.
Seeing as the film tackles the stranglehold mental illness can have on a person and their ultimate outlook on life, its integrity seems based on this alone, stealing focus from the painfully lame points of the piece.
There was the unofficial strike before they all came out, and now they are trying to put a stranglehold on the area's food supply [saying] 'we can't afford to buy food so why should the public have it'.
Besides, if they are to break the Sinn Féin stranglehold on the North they must do so partly through an ideological battle.
A guilty conviction would bar Anwar from politics for five years from the date of his release, and deal a blow to the opposition alliance, which has appeared to be on the verge of breaking the ruling party's stranglehold on power for the first time since independence in 1957.
And if all this means that the dismal stranglehold that the EIS continues to exert on hiring and disciplining of teachers is broken then hallelujah.
As for the Czech Republic, they merited their win tonight for weathering the early Polish storm before calmly taking a stranglehold on the game, eventually wearing Poland down in the second half and taking their best chance clinically.
With Bob Geldof and others, through such initiatives as Drop The Debt and Make Poverty History, the U2 frontman has been at the forefront of a new advocacy for Africa that focuses not on aid but on grassroots campaigning: challenging the old trade inequalities, loosening the stranglehold of the debt burden and bringing the arguments for trade justice to a wider audience.
It helps break the "priesthood of the pundits" – he means Fleet Street – and its stranglehold on the agenda.
