stranglehold

The professors concluded that “abstinence-only programs have a stranglehold on sexuality education in Texas public schools.”

The agreement lessened the stranglehold India-Pakistan tensions had put on trade in the region for decades.

If concluded, the sale would give Rupert Murdoch an even greater stranglehold on the British media.

Come to California, where the regulatory stranglehold is killing our economy.

Galled by the stranglehold of the religious right, he has challenged the party to open itself up to young voters and new ideas.

Then, indeed, the Lhari had been lying all along, the vicious lie that maintained their stranglehold monopoly of star-travel.

Mrs. Trapes, I've got a stranglehold on that idea, for it is rather brilliant.

I leaped at the smother of bodies, ripped one away with a stranglehold, slashed at its throat.

It gave them such a stranglehold––with the right sort of men––and Brace was the right sort.

He reached for the arm around his neck and began breaking it free from its stranglehold.