choke-point

Your plans would do nothing but consign that current traffic to ever-longer waits, until basically it became an economic choke-point.

Vancouver’s CanadaLine to open in September « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

Update: Could this choke-point with Hawks have had anything to do with this pilot program that avoids the Hawk altogether?

Problem with Hawk engines should be solved soon 2008

Since when did the parliamentary librarian, of all people, become a choke-point for information to which the public has every right? posted by Dr.

Transparency, Conservative style 2008

Since when did the parliamentary librarian, of all people, become a choke-point for information to which the public has every right? posted by Dr.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

And Spin Boldak is a critical tactical choke-point.

Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008

- It sure was convenient that the Reavers stopped using ranged weapons there in the choke-point so River could go all medieval on them.

I Am A Leaf On The Wind Or, Review: Serenity 2005

The lane markers had funneled all ship traffic into a choke-point here; all travelers had to pass near the rocket racks of an ancient, moss-encrusted fortress built of stone in a crude cube shape.

Sun of Suns 2006

He knows that our route down to Gilimotang passes through a difficult narrows, a choke-point between islands where the surge lines and whirlpools are nasty and the bottom is cluttered with wrecked boats.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

He knows that our route down to Gilimotang passes through a difficult narrows, a choke-point between islands where the surge lines and whirlpools are nasty and the bottom is cluttered with wrecked boats.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Power over the Internet would then reside with the network owners, who could use choke-point power to constrain consumer choices, limit sources of news and information and entertainment, undermine competitors, and quash disruptive new technologies.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: April 2004 Archives 2004