Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sports An illegal wrestling hold used to choke an opponent.
- noun A force, influence, or action that restricts or suppresses freedom or progress.
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- noun A
grip orcontrol so strong as tostifle orcut off .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
- noun complete power over a person or situation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Federer, on the other hand, is usually the favorite whenever he enters a major, with the exception of the French, where Nadal has a four-year title stranglehold, including wins over Roger in the last three finales in Paris.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) - French police attempted to clear protesters from fuel depots Wednesday, an effort to break a stranglehold on fuel supplies resulting from strikes and protests against the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) - French police attempted to clear protesters from fuel depots Wednesday, an effort to break a stranglehold on fuel supplies resulting from strikes and protests against the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
Police move to break fuel blockades in France - MarketWatch 2010
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And finally season three would be called stranglehold, which was about the response to a well established alien presence on Earth.
eTV Reviewer 2008
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Israel, they wrote, has become a "strategic liability" for the United States but retains its strong support because of a wealthy, well-organized, and bewitching lobby that has a "stranglehold" on Congress and American
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Back in 2008, he used fiery rhetoric chastising the "stranglehold" of the big drug companies.
Allison Kilkenny: If Private Industry Loves Obama's Health Care Plan, Americans Will Hate It 2009
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In the 1970s, he is on tape agreeing with Nixon that Jews have a "stranglehold" on the media, and saying of his Jewish friends, "they swarm around me and are friendly to me, [but] they don't know how I really feel about what the're doing to this country."
Obama: I "Profoundly Disagree" With Pastor Over "God Damn America" Comments 2009
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This controversial 2006 essay argued that American Jews have a "stranglehold" on the U.S.
Obama's Bad Intelligence choice... GayandRight 2009
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The Rev. Billy Graham, spiritual advisor to many presidents, was recorded in Nixon's oval office castigating the Jewish "stranglehold" on this country and hoping that Nixon "might be able to do something" about it.
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Far from a 'stranglehold' on education the middleclasses 'embrace' it.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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