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- noun Plural form of
stranglehold .
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Examples
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Anti-union business and political leaders leaped on that opportunity to push the meme that the recession was a result of American business's inability to compete due to union strangleholds on the manufacturing sector.
March 17th, 2009 r_urell 2009
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Sugar is a huge resource, but unless there is money to keep the mills in operation, and unless the US and international sugar cane industries release strangleholds on trade, Haiti will never resume its annual production capability of 250,000 metric tons of raw sugar.
Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti 2010
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Sugar is a huge resource, but unless there is money to keep the mills in operation, and unless the US and international sugar cane industries release strangleholds on trade, Haiti will never resume its annual production capability of 250,000 metric tons of raw sugar.
Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti 2010
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Sugar is a huge resource, but unless there is money to keep the mills in operation, and unless the US and international sugar cane industries release strangleholds on trade, Haiti will never resume its annual production capability of 250,000 metric tons of raw sugar.
Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti 2010
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Sugar is a huge resource, but unless there is money to keep the mills in operation, and unless the US and international sugar cane industries release strangleholds on trade, Haiti will never resume its annual production capability of 250,000 metric tons of raw sugar.
Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti 2010
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Sugar is a huge resource, but unless there is money to keep the mills in operation, and unless the US and international sugar cane industries release strangleholds on trade, Haiti will never resume its annual production capability of 250,000 metric tons of raw sugar.
Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti 2010
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A union, and most especially the UAW, won that for you in battles with hard-as-nails employers who relaxed their absolute strangleholds only grudgingly.
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I no longer adhere to such cultural strangleholds.
Not A Geek? 2009
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Would have come in handy some years back when trying to delouse my own and girlfriend's Norton strangleholds 10-27-05...
AppRemover Removes Stubborn Security Applications | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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If Obama was a true socialist, he would have broken up the strangleholds that major insurers have in most state and local markets in health insurance and reduced the size of the largest banks - or taken them over.
John F. Wasik: Inside Scoop: The Real Barack Obama Revealed! 2009
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