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- noun Plural form of
chokehold .
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Examples
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The chokeholds that had suffocated Indian entrepreneurialism had been loosened enough to allow new businesses to spring up.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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The chokeholds that had suffocated Indian entrepreneurialism had been loosened enough to allow new businesses to spring up.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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What if they had carried on licorice vines (suitable for "putting people in chokeholds")?
Gingrich: Six Muslim Scholars Should Have Been "Prosecuted" 2009
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Security forces tried to keep the two groups apart, blocking off streets and occupying key traffic chokeholds.
Security Forces Establish Tense Calm in China's Xinjiang Region 2009
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Security forces tried to keep the two groups apart, blocking off streets and occupying key traffic chokeholds.
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So if you're going to post this sort of story and conclude "xenophobia!", please include research showing that the published accounts of (1) requesting things suitable for putting people in chokeholds and then (2) changing seats to positions suggesting a plan to control the plane were wrong.
Gingrich: Six Muslim Scholars Should Have Been "Prosecuted" 2009
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The old chokeholds on media distribution are rapidly being demolished.
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Yossarian -- with you 100% -- enough already with their chokeholds on every facet of our daily lives.
Sound Politics: U.S. Supreme Court will hear state's appeal in WEA case 2006
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And dozens more have participated in brutal beatings at the psychiatric hospitals since 2005, employee disciplinary reports show – using chokeholds, headlocks and threats of violence to restrain the patients under their watch.
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Coaches taught body slams and chokeholds in small Midwestern gyms; it was -- and is -- largely faked and choreographed, though you still take the blows.
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