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In 2013, direct-to-fan communications, like these apps and the varied wonders of social media, reduce the media's stranglehold to the level of an optimistic hug.

But Australia kept up their stranglehold to send wing Turner over on the left, with O'Connor finding his kicking range from tight on the touchline to give his side a 17-6 lead.

Wouldn't it be the first idea for democracy to break this stranglehold, to allow real alternatives to emerge?

In 2013, Pine Ridge residents, hoping to break the Whiteclay stranglehold, voted to legalize alcohol sales on the reservation only to see implementation blocked by tribal infighting.

A small number of families dominated industry and government contracting, and he set out to break their stranglehold, and to expand opportunities for Turkish entrepreneurs, especially construction firms, across the Middle East and Central Asia.

Hollywood may still dominate the global box office, but foreign territories have proved unusually loyal to local product over the past year, with the US ceding its stranglehold overseas to homegrown hits such as South Korea's The Host (which did double the business of Mission: Impossible III on its home turf), Russia's Day Watch, Germany's Grave Decisions and Mexico's Km 31.

While Heavenly Sword is an effort at a memorable epic, Stranglehold tries to be only a mindless action game with a lot of cool slow-motion sequences.

The cartel's stranglehold threatened to put the American companies out of business, but the United States government had a keen interest in preserving the skills of the watchmakers who worked for those companies: with their mechanical abilities, they had proved useful to the American defense industry.

They have managed to reshape the tax code in their own narrow self-interest and continue to exercise a stranglehold on Congress to prevent any attempts to redress this.

Revenues surged 67% to £309.3 million during the year and the company also laid out plans to tackle banks' stranglehold on lending to small businesses, which it said is "broken".

That day, those who tried their luck at dawn returned unscathed with bumper catches before word came via Egypt that the blockade had been pulled back, the most unequivocal move to ease Israel's stranglehold on Gaza to follow from the truce.