Sentence examples for stranglehold by from inspiring English sources

"Prices have been too high for too long but this could all change if Ofcom breaks Sky's stranglehold by creating a level playing field".

None of these desired changes are likely to occur unless the stranglehold by the Roman Curia on the institutional church is finally broken.

"The stranglehold by Republicans is ridiculous, that we have to pay so much more in Nassau County even during a time of prosperity," Mr. Ludu said.

For more than 50 years, Tunisians have lived under brutal one-party rule, each attempt at breaking the stranglehold – by liberals, Communists, trade unionists, Islamists, human rights activists - crushed.

Officials in Brussels realized that the proposed gas deal between Poland and Russia could contravene the European Union's energy laws, particularly regulations that stipulate that outside companies should have access to gas pipelines and that the stranglehold by producers and distributors should be broken.

Morris didn't want to, and so when he decided, on the centenary of the "Rite," two years ago, to have a go at the score, he loosened the libretto's stranglehold by using a jazz re-orchestration, by the Bad Plus ensemble (Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson, David King).

The United Nations itself, where President Obama will preside over a Security Council meeting, is doomed to remain a paper tiger as long as its human rights potential is stifled by the stranglehold maintained by anti-human rights bureaucracies such as the UN's misnamed Human Rights Council in Geneva.

"Democrats want to keep the heat on Republicans," he said, "and half of the GOP members of the house are in a stranglehold caused by fear of being primaried by the far right".

There's the psychological stranglehold imposed by innate shyness, which makes any form of public utterance a trial.

And it was precisely this success that began to loosen the "stranglehold" described by Mearsheimer and Walt.

Thanks partly to the stranglehold exercised by the teachers' union, Mexico's educational performance is poorer than it should be given its income level.