Examples of 'stranglehold' in a sentence
Meaning of "stranglehold"
stranglehold (noun): A powerful or controlling influence over a person, group, or situation, often characterized by imposing restrictions or limitations
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- A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.
- to hold a tight grip or control
How to use "stranglehold" in a sentence
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This siege is a stranglehold on the occupied territories.
The injury was more consistent with a stranglehold.
These brats have a stranglehold on this island.
The stranglehold of the legislative council was broken.
They are currently a stranglehold on economic growth.
Stranglehold on the brainless and sentimental.
I see the rich have got a stranglehold on us.
With the stranglehold of the monopolies over.
He rescues you from the stranglehold of satan.
The stranglehold they put on your very existence.
Supposedly has a stranglehold on the trade.
Stranglehold has a small gun and a huge gun.
I thought we had a stranglehold on waste collection.
The stranglehold of the gun lobby is clearly being broken.
I am gonna put a stranglehold on this city.
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Albizzi has the government in a stranglehold.
He will take a stranglehold on this tournament.
A whole section of the army was trapped in a stranglehold.
That man has a stranglehold on you.
Their stranglehold on the market is incredible.
It has massively increased the stranglehold of organized crime.
Google stranglehold on search pushes companies into dead zones.
They three developed a stranglehold on the drugs market.
They have gotten lost in the media stranglehold.
They have a stranglehold in that area.
Because there is no other way to break the stranglehold.
Lin piao has a stranglehold on the central committee.
Pakistan had deprived it of education in order to continue its stranglehold.
Japanese module firms maintain stranglehold on domestic market.
The stranglehold they maintain is first and foremost spatial.
Of the religious right getting a stranglehold on our values.
This led to a stranglehold on the state by a white rural minority.
Investors who negotiated stranglehold terms.
It keeps the stranglehold of that sinful habit in your life.
It creates an emotional and mental stranglehold on our lives.
The stranglehold of common sense.
We simply can not afford the stranglehold of additional debt.
There are no indications of a traditional tiger throat bite or stranglehold.
Organized crime has a stranglehold stretching across the country.
Young people are devising ways of breaking the poverty stranglehold.
Without the stranglehold of regulations.
Remember that weird stranglehold.
Breaking the stranglehold of political parties on economic and commercial life.
Only he could free it from the stranglehold of special interests.
Stranglehold is a metal rhino.
Lin piao has a stranglehold.
The northerner stranglehold on power caused the first civil strife.
No other area of knowledge seems to have a stranglehold on the church.
But you do not get a stranglehold on the commercial construction industry.
They would seize this as an opportunity to tighten their economic stranglehold.
