Doctorow's stint on the fringes of the film industry coincided with the western's stranglehold on Hollywood, a circumstance which inadvertently inspired his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times.
Criminal gangs became dominant forces in Serbia during the Balkan conflicts of the nineteen-nineties, and they were further empowered by Western sanctions, which gave them a stranglehold on the markets for gasoline, cigarettes, and other staples.
Lower oil prices and Western sanctions seem to have the Russian economy in a stranglehold.
Instead of having to walk up the stairs from the top landing to his studio, he uses a specially installed lift, but there are few other concessions for the man who, some seven decades ago, broke the stranglehold of the right angle and the straight line on Western architecture.
Despite a stranglehold on Chinese markets ― and some innovative apps that Western firms now look to imitate ― global consumers have yet to truly embrace Chinese tech companies.
Richie may have been responsible for western audiences' exposure to Ozu, but this "vindicated championing" has allowed him a stranglehold on his reputation.
But more than that, the pipeline will help break the sanctions stranglehold on Iran's energy sector imposed by the US and western allies concerned about Tehran's nuclear-related activities.
Western producers like Boeing and Airbus Industrie have pushed Saratov out of China, a traditional market, and have a stranglehold on the rest of the world, including developing countries.
Western capitals have suddenly grown worried over China's near monopoly, which gives it a potential stranglehold on technologies of the future.
After all, what is comprehensible can be tinkered with and, in time, improved.The standard account tells us that the new science broke the stranglehold that the church and a few of its favoured pagan thinkers (chiefly Aristotle) had exerted for centuries on Western thought.
