stranglehold
dominio completo
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'
noun
dominio completo,
collar de fuerza
example
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.
Just when it seemed like the corporations had a 'stranglehold' on the culture industries, counterculture has gone mainstream.
This 'stranglehold' exercised over public information depends upon the control of the media by a handful of corporations.
The entire electoral setup has turned into a political 'stranglehold' over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.
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.
Japan is caught in a 'stranglehold' of bad debt and deflation.
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.
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.
The 'stranglehold' placed on the regional economy by cuts to services together with delays to modernisation could be catastrophic.
The arm seized him around the neck, tightening in a 'stranglehold' .
The attempts to free academia and research funds from the 'stranglehold' of methodological materialism can only help the creationist movement.
In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party 'stranglehold' .
The baby has a small teddy bear in a 'stranglehold' .
The corporate controlled mass media would essentially have a 'stranglehold' on information distribution if it were not for the Internet.
You've let your firm grip on practical considerations become a 'stranglehold' .
The United States couldn't do enough to put a 'stranglehold' around Afghanistan.
Shankar himself broke away from the 'stranglehold' of feudal culture where the patron's command was total.
If I were older, I'd catch him and hold him in a 'stranglehold' .
he broke the union that held a 'stranglehold' on bus service
Caught in an economic 'stranglehold' , the Punjab farmer is sinking deeper into debt with every passing year.
Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a 'stranglehold' of possession would limit their classy forwards.
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.
Marco stuttered, and tried to loose the 'stranglehold' at his neck.
His eyewitness account describes the progressive 'stranglehold' devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.
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.
It's another step towards breaking the 'stranglehold' of the big pharmaceutical companies on drug patents.
in France, supermarkets have less of a 'stranglehold' on food supplies
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.
He moved quicker than he could trace, and caught him in the same 'stranglehold' .
A materialist understanding is, instead, an essential step in liberating culture from the 'stranglehold' of commodification.
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