Sentence examples for stranglehold around from inspiring English sources

Then 19 years later came the stranglehold around us aimed at uprooting us.

Operating in southwestern Germany, he captured Rheinfelden, Freiburg, and the key fortress of Breisach (Dec. 17, 1638), effectively breaking the Austrian and Spanish stranglehold around France.

"Unless something is done to correct the payroll and revenue disparities among the teams -- unless we untie the stranglehold around the small- and medium-market teams by increasing competition -- baseball cannot survive".

This is really where the values and the vision of the American people are, but it's a political system which is thoroughly hijacked and corrupted by big money that's got a stranglehold around the two political parties.

Here was Blair, the man linked in mind, body, and soul to the military coup in Egypt ( he said the army intervened " at the will of the people" to bring democracy to Egypt) attempting to mediate between Hamas, Israel and Egypt - the two countries that have kept a stranglehold around Gaza's neck.

Their goal is simple – copy the adsense model and get the same stranglehold on advertising around video that they have around search.

Now, thanks to Westminster's stranglehold, officials rattle around grand Victorian town halls achieving little.

And then, if enough of the human cancer has been destroyed, enough so that the stranglehold we have around the life cells of the planet has loosened and she can breathe, maybe life will return to her.

Perhaps more concerning for the NRA, this year made clear that it's losing its stranglehold on the conversation around firearms in the U.S. The February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, led to surging momentum in favor of stronger gun laws.

"Like a stranglehold, Styrofoam latches itself around the neck of the environment, shortening its breath and its cries going fainter with each passing day," said a Guyanese Environmental Protection statement issued in January.

However, as labels and artists free themselves from DRM, sites like these open up a way around iTunes's stranglehold over digital music sales.