Sentence examples for stranglehold and from inspiring English sources
Can Saracens break Leicester's stranglehold and become Premiership champions?
Rick Magnani West Sayville, N.Y., Oct. 3, 2010 To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman decries the stranglehold (and logjam) of the American two-party system.
The acquisition broke Mr. Moses' stranglehold and provided a convenient source of income for a mass transit system trying to reinvent itself.
In 1992 Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, fighting for fledgling survival, broke the BBC and ITV's price-muffling stranglehold, and everybody in football knew the next deal would be enormous.
The mannequin heads, attached as they were to the counter, occasionally required the hairdresser to perform a stranglehold and twist that would hardly pass muster in most salons.
It's an embrace that increasingly resembles a stranglehold and, despite the strong foundations of the social housing built in 1952, the water climbs up into the houses.
"In judo we use strangleholds and chokeholds so the hijab could be dangerous," said Nicolas Messner, a federation spokesman.
As a result, barriers to change such as complex governance, bureaucratic strangleholds and self-preservation biases outweigh incentives to reform.
It was not that he did not have the credentials or the desire to turn the Bears around, but how could Brown — or anyone else — break the stranglehold Penn and Princeton had on the Ivy League?
High taxes and rents, baroque zoning laws and the stranglehold of unions and environmental regulation are enough to terrify most outsiders.
And despite attacks and intimidation directed at the press, and a CPP stranglehold on radio and television, some fiercely critical opposition papers still print.
