stranglehold
IPA: strˈæŋgʌɫhoʊɫd
noun
- A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.
verb
- to hold a tight grip or control
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Examples of "stranglehold" in Sentences
- It's broken the stranglehold that radio had.
- The tank was developed to break this stranglehold.
- I'm powerless to resist against their stranglehold.
- It shows that Disney has a stranglehold on this page.
- A stranglehold is a grappling hold that strangles the opponent.
- A 'stranglehold' is a grappling hold that strangles the opponent.
- But by 2006, Ticketmaster's stranglehold on the industry loosened.
- Anyway Berlusconi has no particular stranglehold on Italian politics.
- Far from a 'stranglehold' on education the middleclasses 'embrace' it.
- It is clearly in the stranglehold of a handful of sceptical contributors.
- This is a reflection of gambling's stranglehold on the sport at the time.
- This controversial 2006 essay argued that American Jews have a "stranglehold" on the U.S.
- Back in 2008, he used fiery rhetoric chastising the "stranglehold" of the big drug companies.
- And finally season three would be called stranglehold, which was about the response to a well established alien presence on Earth.
- The Rev. Billy Graham, spiritual advisor to many presidents, was recorded in Nixon's oval office castigating the Jewish "stranglehold" on this country and hoping that Nixon "might be able to do something" about it.
- Israel, they wrote, has become a "strategic liability" for the United States but retains its strong support because of a wealthy, well-organized, and bewitching lobby that has a "stranglehold" on Congress and American
- Federer, on the other hand, is usually the favorite whenever he enters a major, with the exception of the French, where Nadal has a four-year title stranglehold, including wins over Roger in the last three finales in Paris.
- LONDON (MarketWatch) - French police attempted to clear protesters from fuel depots Wednesday, an effort to break a stranglehold on fuel supplies resulting from strikes and protests against the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
- In the 1970s, he is on tape agreeing with Nixon that Jews have a "stranglehold" on the media, and saying of his Jewish friends, "they swarm around me and are friendly to me, [but] they don't know how I really feel about what the're doing to this country."