Sentence examples for stranglehold at from inspiring English sources

Northampton applied a stranglehold at the breakdown through Calum Clark and Tom Wood and they chased kicks effectively.

Pakistan has had a number of opportunities to break the stranglehold, at least twice completely dominating most of a match before losing its grip at the end.

"BA is already dominant at Heathrow and their removal of BMI just tightens their stranglehold at the world's busiest international airport.

The first contemporary female filmmaker to break the all-male stranglehold at the box office was Ms. Akhtar's first cousin Farah Khan.

Because of his party's stranglehold at village level, its members can decide on entitlements such as places for children in school and the distribution of food handouts.

Arguably, only someone who came in from outside – fresh and without residual loyalty – would have been able to challenge the chief executive's organisational stranglehold at Kids Company.

Regulators should not oppose some consolidation among major carriers, while guarding against airlines' obtaining monopolistic strangleholds at individual airports.

If Pathstream is able to realize its vision of integrating industry-relevant software training into degree programs in a big way, colleges and universities have a shot at maintaining their stranglehold as the sole pathway to successful careers.

Without either man's efforts, the other side might have taken a stranglehold on proceedings at Sport City, but as it was honours lay largely even.

Even limited open skies would break the stranglehold of BA and Virgin Atlantic at London Heathrow and expose America's feather-bedded flock of airlines to more competition, at least on their transatlantic routes.Of course, if there were a perfect deal waiting to be had, it might be tactically worth saying no to this one.

One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent.