Academies are afforded the luxury of start-up funds, other financial incentives and a less suffocating grip on student suspension/exclusion policies.

Everything he did now was an attempt to break free from their suffocating grip, and everything so far had failed.

Under orders, Clinton had turned the schooner and sailed her back to the Cape Verde Islands, crossing the equator to do so and lying three days becalmed in the doldrums before breaking from their suffocating grip.

In 1579, seven provinces north of the Rhine conclude the Treaty of Utrecht, releasing the suffocating grip of Spanish rule.

What were all those bone-wrenching struggles about if not to free us from the family, to get us out of the suffocating grip of the bourgeoisie, to remove the barriers from our participation in the natural, the erotically charged?

Nefer felt his heart held in a suffocating grip of excitement and the breath in his lungs seized up so that he thought his chest might burst.

When the dust cloud had her in its suffocating grip, it lifted her off the ground and threw her down, where she lay until fear compelled her once more to her feet and darkness engulfed her once again.

But neither Deng nor the current leader, President Jiang Zemin, has eased the suffocating political grip of Communist Party dictatorship.

Total darkness seized him, in a hot and suffocating grip.

Go back to the suffocating grip of the rhododendrons, or try to scale the cliff before him.