stranglehold
પકડ
definition
noun
Marco stuttered, and tried to loose the stranglehold at his neck.
a grip around the neck of another person that can kill by asphyxiation if held for long enough.
translation of 'stranglehold'
ગળાટૂંપો,
અવરોધન,
દમનકારી અસર,
ભયંકર પકડ,
અવરોધક સત્તા
example
If sex workers organize, goes the thinking at the local organization, they feel strong enough to break the 'stranglehold' pimps and policemen have on their lives.
His eyewitness account describes the progressive 'stranglehold' devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.
Just when it seemed like the corporations had a 'stranglehold' on the culture industries, counterculture has gone mainstream.
The arm seized him around the neck, tightening in a 'stranglehold' .
The police officer was pulled to the floor in a 'stranglehold' in a ‘violent and frenzied’ attack by a drunken man when she tried to caution him after a fight in Bradford.
A materialist understanding is, instead, an essential step in liberating culture from the 'stranglehold' of commodification.
The corporate controlled mass media would essentially have a 'stranglehold' on information distribution if it were not for the Internet.
The baby has a small teddy bear in a 'stranglehold' .
He moved quicker than he could trace, and caught him in the same 'stranglehold' .
Shankar himself broke away from the 'stranglehold' of feudal culture where the patron's command was total.
Radcliffe had become a rallying point for the country's other top distance runners, who all agreed to turn out in an attempt to break the African 'stranglehold' at this annual festival.
You've let your firm grip on practical considerations become a 'stranglehold' .
When one is caught in the 'stranglehold' of addiction, all other concerns become a backdrop to the craving for the next dose, the next big fix.
Japan is caught in a 'stranglehold' of bad debt and deflation.
Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a 'stranglehold' of possession would limit their classy forwards.
Marco stuttered, and tried to loose the 'stranglehold' at his neck.
If I were older, I'd catch him and hold him in a 'stranglehold' .
In the 1970s and 1980s, the only way to breach the 'stranglehold' of the state was to move to the West or the Gulf countries, where Indian entrepreneurs excelled.
This 'stranglehold' exercised over public information depends upon the control of the media by a handful of corporations.
The attempts to free academia and research funds from the 'stranglehold' of methodological materialism can only help the creationist movement.
Caught in an economic 'stranglehold' , the Punjab farmer is sinking deeper into debt with every passing year.
It's another step towards breaking the 'stranglehold' of the big pharmaceutical companies on drug patents.
He had taken but two steps before he was engulfed by a pair of slender arms and he endured the 'stranglehold' of their embrace only as long as he deemed appropriate before he freed himself from his official bride.
he broke the union that held a 'stranglehold' on bus service
The 'stranglehold' placed on the regional economy by cuts to services together with delays to modernisation could be catastrophic.
In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party 'stranglehold' .
At that moment, Lior sprinted toward the terrorist, jumped on him, grabbed him in a 'stranglehold' , and dragged him six or seven meters away from the stricken policemen.
in France, supermarkets have less of a 'stranglehold' on food supplies
The United States couldn't do enough to put a 'stranglehold' around Afghanistan.
The entire electoral setup has turned into a political 'stranglehold' over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.
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