Sentence examples for stranglehold of control from inspiring English sources

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

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.

One of the most unsustainable things about it is the stranglehold of state behemoths in key sectors, many of them controlled by the Party elite.

This won't change until the stranglehold of big pharma over global medicines is broken, and we begin to fund and control medical research publicly.

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.

Chengdu is in a stranglehold of fear.

Some need a break from the stranglehold of sadness.

The rebel navy needed blockade runners to thwart the Union's stranglehold of its commercial shipping.

"It's that notion that he breaks the stranglehold of the establishment on presidential politics.

The promise is to break the stranglehold of "powerful interest groups".

Is that because students are finally free from the stranglehold of dramatic convention?