chokehold , auch: choke hold

It is not in the public interest for any one company to have an Internet chokehold.

Says, "We must end the teachers unions' chokehold on public education."

He had kept Dala talking long enough for the chokehold to work.

She turned her head slightly and sucked in a small breath past his chokehold.

And it says Microsoft is trying to maintain a chokehold on that gateway.

And only six large companies exert a chokehold over export subsidies.

Whatever scream she might have released was trapped in his chokehold.

The voice cut off midword, as though someone had put the speaker in a chokehold.

Not letting go of my chokehold, I put a shoe in her stomach and pushed.

He fell, keeping his chokehold and tumbling Denise onto him.

Given the chokehold a minority has over power - not least economic power - they see real political change as the only hope.

Commuters yesterday found no black humor in the chokehold of this white winter.

A wrestler could submit under a chokehold and "tap out".

The most beneficial category of submission technique is the chokehold.

Sometimes, it involves using a 'chokehold' where one arm is wrapped around the throat.

None of these have left Microsoft with a position in television that is even slightly similar to its chokehold on computers.

Through the chokehold on his neck he gurgled minor triumph.

Brazil's ethanol program started in 1975, when soaring oil prices put a chokehold on the economy.

Note that a simple chokehold or headlock is tolerated within the game.

Then tightening into a chokehold almost with Roarke pressed back hard close against him.

"The enclave creates a chokehold around the villages," the court ruled.

No, what makes the threat powerful is the chokehold that Amtrak has on other railroads.

It put an instant end to the isolationism that had kept American foreign policy in a chokehold for two decades.

New York City police officers are trained to use the chokehold only if a life is in danger.

"We've got a chokehold on them now," Pierce said.