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Example sentences for: stranglehold

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2) It breaks the stranglehold of bureaucrats and teachers' unions.
An article describes Big Sugar's stranglehold on public policy.
Its hero asserts that private enterprise has a stranglehold on American politics.
In 1654 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dispatched a British fleet to the Caribbean to break the stranglehold of the Spanish.
If Rule's idea were right, then companies from other countries, which, for example, flood the chip market with underpriced products, would simply be acting in the consumer's interest, even if they are seeking a stranglehold on the market.