Stranglehold

Definition

stranglehold /'stræŋglhǝƱld/ n ၁။ လည္ကိုညႇစ္ျခင္း။ get sb in a stranglehold. ၂။ (usu sing ) ~ (on sth) ဇိညႇစ္ျခင္း။ The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade.

Examples

1. ‘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.’
2. ‘If I were older
3. I'd catch him and hold him in a stranglehold.’
4. ‘The arm seized him around the neck
5. tightening in a stranglehold.’
6. ‘The baby has a small teddy bear in a stranglehold.’
7. ‘Marco stuttered
8. and tried to loose the stranglehold at his neck.’
9. ‘At that moment
10. Lior sprinted toward the terrorist
11. jumped on him
12. grabbed him in a stranglehold
13. and dragged him six or seven meters away from the stricken policemen.’
14. ‘He moved quicker than he could trace
15. and caught him in the same stranglehold.’
16. ‘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.’
17. ‘The entire electoral setup has turned into a political stranglehold over the masses
18. offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.’
19. ‘Japan is caught in a stranglehold of bad debt and deflation.’
20. ‘A materialist understanding is
21. instead
22. an essential step in liberating culture from the stranglehold of commodification.’
23. ‘Caught in an economic stranglehold
24. the Punjab farmer is sinking deeper into debt with every passing year.’
25. ‘The stranglehold placed on the regional economy by cuts to services together with delays to modernisation could be catastrophic.’
26. ‘Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a stranglehold of possession would limit their classy forwards.’
27. ‘You've let your firm grip on practical considerations become a stranglehold.’
28. ‘When one is caught in the stranglehold of addiction
29. all other concerns become a backdrop to the craving for the next dose
30. the next big fix.’
31. ‘In fact
32. a financial oligarchy presides over America
33. which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party stranglehold.’
34. ‘The United States couldn't do enough to put a stranglehold around Afghanistan.’
35. ‘Shankar himself broke away from the stranglehold of feudal culture where the patron's command was total.’
36. ‘The corporate controlled mass media would essentially have a stranglehold on information distribution if it were not for the Internet.’