Virginia Postrel

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered.

American Writer

Jack Keane

Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

American General

Samantha Harvey

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

English Author

Camille Paglia

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

American Author

Audrey Strauss

For years, Frank Giovinco, as a member of the Genovese Crime Family, instilled fear in victims and perpetrated kickback schemes to tighten the Family's stranglehold over two labor unions.

American Public Servant

Milo Yiannopoulos

The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.

British Activist

Alveda King

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

American Clergyman

Lee Hyeon-seo

I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.

South Korean Writer

Van Heflin

I don't believe in letting the advertising business get a stranglehold on the entertainment industry.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

American Diplomat

Often used metaphorically to describe overwhelming power in business or influence.

Metaphorical Use

Implies a negative impact on creativity, growth, or freedom by the dominating force.

Negative Connotation

Suggests an imbalance of power where one party has an advantage over another.

Power Dynamics

Used to describe a serious physical altercation that could lead to severe harm.

Intense Conflict

In a legal or physical context, it refers directly to someone being strangled.

Literal Interpretation

Emphasizes the potential fatality of a physical stranglehold.

Life-Threatening

 it's taught us that you have to be surrounded by abundance in order to safe. The disconnect between those who have and those who have not has never been bigger, and never in my lifetime, and probably in any of our lifetimes, has there been an invitation, again, to release the stranglehold on your hoarding.

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 carcasses and crunch through heavy bone they don't need that by force pressure the only thing they need to be able to do is to be able to suffocate their prey and they do that by the stranglehold but otherwise they don't need the excessively powerful jaw of something like a howl you know or even a lion and

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 has lost its stranglehold on Latin American politics. But the modern banana industry isn’t without problems. Cavendish bananas require frequent applications of pesticides that create hazards for farmworkers and ecosystems. And though they’re resistant to the particular pathogen

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 grasping hands and feet of all primates it's fundamental for a life in the trees as well as an effective way to put a stranglehold on an older brother

Stranglehold

Metaphorical Use

Negative Connotation

Power Dynamics

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