At 10-apiece with 15 minutes left, there was a genuine possibility of them breaking the Black Ferns' long-time stranglehold on this event, a 59th-minute try from Charlotte Barras having transformed the contest.
It won't be easy or quick, but for the time being the stranglehold of the extremists has been impaired.
This will affect future research; it will, over time, break the stranglehold of decadent Lucasian doctrine on the journals.
It's time to end agribusiness' stranglehold on the department.
By that time, Syracuse had a stranglehold on 12th-seeded Cal's offense, especially its high-scoring guards.
While Vincenzo Nibali should have enough class and time to maintain his stranglehold on the race, watch out for Cadel Evans, Rigoberto Urán and Michele Scarponi in the battle for podium places, and Rafal Majka's and Carlos Betancur's ding-dong for the white jersey.
Toto explains that much of the problem stems from Facebook and MySpace's late entry into Japan – it took both of them years to release localized versions, giving Mixi time to establish a stranglehold on the market.
Of course, the official RTM release of Windows 7 comes at a time when Microsoft's stranglehold of the operating system is being challenged by the recent announcement of Google's Chrome OS.
It's long past time that GameStop's stranglehold on the used game business was disrupted, and Gamestaq offers a way to sell which, for your average gamer, is simpler than Amazon and more reliable than Craigslist.
Most of the time, the special interest stranglehold over Congress is exercised relatively quietly, in small-bore negotiations that never really get off the ground.
But even as the Bruins put the Leafs in what appeared, at the time, to be a stranglehold in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal, the Leafs surpassed expectations at five-on-five.
