'throttling' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which the volume or intensity of something is limited or reduced, such as a slowing down of the progress of a project or a decrease in the flow of resources. For example, "The company had to resort to throttling its development process in order to cut costs."
With priority given to the elderly and disabled, its 12m-wide walkway is big enough to accommodate 1,700 wheelchairs per hour – but it comes at the cost of throttling the Kaaba in a three-storey cage and blocking the sacred black box from the view of thousands of others on the elevated prayer halls around.
But regulatory pressure is throttling the life-saving inflows.
First, by choking off the supply of credit and throttling sales, crises depress investment and thus productivity.
"When people can't live together there is a divorce, otherwise we will be like Angola, Burundi or Sierra Leone," said one governor.Mr Ratsiraka's blockade is throttling the capital.
Mrs Merkel's policies have been throttling the continent's economy and have ushered in deflation.
In Britain, it is the idea of tweaking fiscal policy that is politically fraught.The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, is adamantly sticking to his plan to eradicate the structural budget deficit during this parliament, in the face of claims that he is throttling the recovery.
In return, Iran would have received "limited but reversible" relief from some of the sanctions throttling its economy.
The former general is an ultra-nationalist who has dedicated most of his long military and political career to throttling the national aspirations of the Palestinians.
But administrative reform needs to go deeper than this if only to prevent the public sector throttling economic growth.The government's debt burden leaves it short of money for infrastructure.
Last year Spain overshot its 6% deficit target by 2.5 percentage points, thanks largely to free-spending regional governments.The worry now is that Mr Juncker and friends are throttling not just Mr de Guindos but also Spain's attempts at recovery.
By throttling the bits of banks that "make markets" in bonds, shares, currencies and commodities, the theory goes, watchdogs have made such assets less liquid.
