stranglehold

What could be done to further increase the company's stranglehold?

"But that will give you a stranglehold on every business in the country!"

In other words, these states do not have a "stranglehold" on the process.

"He kept a stranglehold on the money, and everyone else involved with him just saw a piece of it."

The film will be based on the plot of Stranglehold.

"They've had too much of a stranglehold on everything in the Irish community."

We can break the City's stranglehold on the economy, without needing to do anything special.

Now somebody else besides himself had a real stranglehold on his future.

The stranglehold of the new regime was all but complete.

The most obvious will be to increase the stranglehold of sports on American life.

The cops are going to lose their stranglehold on human space.

Would nothing ever break the stranglehold of the old regents?

But somewhere along the way, the music took a stranglehold on many of his dances.

He was getting a real stranglehold on this neck of the woods.

The force of the fall released the man's stranglehold on Adam.

They are more likely to rise once the credit stranglehold is removed.

This led to a stranglehold on the state by a white rural minority.

He slid his arms around my neck in a near stranglehold.

The game, the series, the Nets' stranglehold on the conference.

These hands have a stranglehold on us, which we deplore.

He's out to get a stranglehold on the industry.

"There is a pervasive culture at the agency which has kept a stranglehold on the industry."

Nothing says we're not a monopoly like trying to break up another perceived stranglehold.

Lumber interests did not have a stranglehold on the region, however.

Got some teenager in a stranglehold during a drug bust years ago.