Sentence examples for stranglehold control from inspiring English sources

Then there were the aristocratic families like Thomas Jefferson's, which exercised stranglehold control over the country's economic life.

Mindful not to waste a perfectly good crisis, the Obama White House and influential congressional Democrats have seized the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster to assert a continuing stranglehold control over offshore drilling operations.

I suffered from a mental illness for about four years, gripped in a stranglehold of control, starvation and numbers.

But the central bank has not increased the amount in days, giving the lenders a stranglehold despite capital controls.

But the ECB has not increased the amount in days, leaving the lenders in a stranglehold despite capital controls.

But the Roman Catholic Church, still maintaining its stranglehold on Quebec society, controlled social life from birth to death, ran schools and hospitals, censored the press and kept a tight lid on the intellectual and artistic pot.

In the last few months, the PDP's leadership have watched this comfort zone evaporate, with two major developments threatening its stranglehold on national power – and, ultimately, control of the immensely influential and lucrative patronage networks which that confers.

Frito-Lay has a stranglehold on the junk-food business, controlling 60% of the salty snack category.

"The plan was to develop a bare-bones 'Cuban Twitter,' using text messaging to evade Cuba's strict control of information and its stranglehold restrictions over the Internet.

One analyst told me last month his biggest worry was that market-based reforms just starting to deliver results before the revolution would be choked off now, because of their association with Gamal Mubarak and the corporatist stranglehold of a military dictatorship that still controls perhaps one quarter of the economy.

If you lack self-control and want to put a stranglehold on your spending, use a debit card instead.