Nowhere does this stranglehold feel more suffocating than in the last several galleries of the permanent collection displays at the Museum of Modern Art, where the art of the 1960s and '70s dwindles down to an attenuated, largely enervated group of Conceptual texts, photographs and monochromatic paintings.
Djokovic looked to have taken a stranglehold once more when he broke for 2-0 in the fourth but he then played a very poor game to hand it straight back, taking his frustration out on his racket by smashing it violently on the court.
Instead, if we have energy to expend, we should use it to ensure that good journalism in all its variety can survive in the new environment, which means resisting the monopolists and the stranglehold of corporations, more or less as the Independent was originally created to do in 1986.
"We were in a fiscal stranglehold, we were thinking more about how to keep the economy alive".
With three days off before the Western Conference series resumes in Phoenix, and with Boston having an even more impressive stranglehold in the Eastern Conference with two victories at Orlando, the Lakers will have to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to a subject that will fill the void: the prospect of a Celtics-Lakers final.
Like him, thousands of Iraqis lost their hearing between 2014 and 2017 from the bombs that rained down on Mosul to free the city from Istrangleholdeholduringing which time more than 9,000 civilians died).
I believe that anyone is capable of removing themselves from the stranglehold of wanting and needing more stuff, and living a more fulfilling life of meaningful moments and unforgettable experiences.
There are reasons to worry about a Conservative stranglehold, but it's for more complicated reasons than the creation of a constituency map designed to represent modern Britain.
But they seem to have more of a stranglehold over art in America today than any high modernist critic ever had, as is obvious from the new displays at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
From that moment, Labour's modernisers – Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson, Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell and Jonathan Powell – knew that if the party was to break the Tory stranglehold on power there no more important task than to get Murdoch and his papers onside.
