The patchy form of Contador and Nibali, combined with the stranglehold in which Sky quickly grabbed the race, made it something of a no-contest.
If the reborn ZAPU were to make strategic alliances with other opposition groups, such as a party about to be launched by the trade-union movement, it could break the stranglehold in which Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF has held Zimbabwe since 1980.
It only took a year under the GOP's stranglehold for the global respect in which the U.S. was held to plummet from No. 1 to No. 6 in a global reputation survey.
Known as a tough and ambitious political operator, Lesin broke the stranglehold of the oligarchs on Russian media and ushered in the era in which the Kremlin controlled all major television stations.
With the play's glib exposition, which smacks of romantic comedy, Greenberg reverses our narrative expectations and spins a psychologically astute, compelling study of narcissistic delusion, in which the payoff is not revenge but revelation about the stranglehold of symbiosis.
It's the kind of noiselessness in which a man's thoughts can creep up on him from behind and grab him in a stranglehold.
In 2007, a video game sequel titled Stranglehold was released, which is in the process of being made into a film.
"The situation here in New York is yet another manifestation of the stranglehold that political parties have on election administration — a stranglehold which is choking our democracy," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York.
"I think for any modern state and any state signatory to the W.T.O.," he said, referring to the World Trade Organization, "restricting the export of any material which has a stranglehold in the world is just a nonstarter".
Castro blamed the hardship on the US embargo, a longstanding, vindictive stranglehold which cost the economy billions.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has urged his team to gain a stranglehold in the top four during a run of winter games which he admits could define the club's season.
