Polls showed the Northern League could increase its share of the vote by as much as half again, so an early ballot offered Mr Bossi the promise of an even tighter stranglehold on the government and perhaps the chance to reduce the nascent FLI to dimensions commensurate with the pronunciation of its acronym.John Hooper: Italy correspondent, The Economist.
Consequently just as museums need to shake their 19th-century American galleries free of the predictable progressions of like-unto-like works, they also need to break the even tighter stranglehold on their postwar displays — the relentless march of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism and its numerous offshoots.
Germany have had great sides through the ages and Argentina won World Cups in relatively quick succession in 1978 and 1986 - but has anyone ever had a tighter stranglehold on the world game than Spain?
The man nicknamed 'Bones' has a super-tight stranglehold on that number one slot and appears nowhere near ready to let go.
Without that economic amnesty helping new artists and musicians, wouldn't middle class art school students have an even tighter stranglehold on our culture?
Without that economic amnesty helping new artists and musicians, wouldn't middle class BRIT students have an even tighter stranglehold on our culture?
When an inner circle maintains too tight a stranglehold over the president's time and attention, too few views come into play.
The Senate's failure to act on either climate or the immediate needs of Gulf Coast communities shows just how tight a stranglehold Big Oil has on Congress.
How tight is their stranglehold over our economy?
With the stranglehold on the docks so tight, companies are no longer even bothering to send goods to ports, even if they are able to move them out of their own plant.
He has won eight of the last nine games and has taken a stranglehold of this final, despite the tight scoreline.
