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Without such a crisis, however, the stranglehold of manipulative media on the minds of the voters is too strong to be broken.

The dark is faltering and its once-mighty stranglehold on your world is slipping.

But even after law enforcement broke the gangs' stranglehold on the neighborhood in the 1990s, gambling rooms continued to flourish.

Thus the Russian potash merger worried Chinese regulators that foreign producers would get a stranglehold over a vital commodity.

And as the stranglehold on the capital tightens, plans are being made to evacuate the last remaining foreign workers by sea.

Today is a good day to die to the ego which has had us in such a stranglehold of fear and problems.

This state of the low household consumption rate has put a stranglehold on economic and social development of China.

The president's stranglehold on power has given the Central African country a certain stability.

Mr Sutherland said fears that Russia had a stranglehold over Europe's energy supplies were misplaced .

They may also help rivals attempting to break Ebay's stranglehold on online auctions.

The funds are likely to benefit selected institutions that consolidate Mugabe and Zanu-PF's stranglehold on power.

First, emerging nations resentful of Europe's stranglehold on the directorship must agree on a common candidate.

It has massively increased the stranglehold of organized crime.

He wants to break the Orthodox stranglehold over marriage laws.

Yet Microsoft soon emulated the breakthroughs in the Mac, keeping Apple from breaking its stranglehold on the market.

Freer domestic markets would loosen the stranglehold of the Communist Party.

With the Chinese authorities maintaining a stranglehold on the media, however, such issues are not discussed domestically.

The near-stranglehold of banks over the legal world has been impressive.

That gives China a potential stranglehold on supply, a position it is understandably happy to exploit.

The growing importance of China to the health of the global economy means the G7 no longer has the stranglehold on policy it once enjoyed.

China's attempts to fight what it sees as the stranglehold of foreign patents and intellectual property rights have also had hiccups.

But the greedy execs wanted to put a stranglehold on content, and the consumer just didn't want to play their game.

Tariffs put a stranglehold on trade.

The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on our trade with them .

An antitrust judgment in 1954 forced the firm to release its stranglehold on the shoe machinery market.

Indeed, the bigger risk is that the Russians' stranglehold on gas supplies to Europe is putting more leverage into their hands.

Sky has increased its stranglehold on the game, but has paid top dollar.

But, suddenly, Gazprom's European stranglehold looks a lot less firm.

As the plants tightened their stranglehold on the demon's massive form, Archimonde was forced to teleport away in order to escape.

The government still keeps a stranglehold on all news flows into the destitute state.

Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it.

Even if a car has your heartstrings in a white-knuckled stranglehold, never let on.

Most importantly in the Java world, is that stranglehold being placed upon 3rd party implementations.

When you find a "competitor" who seems like they have a stranglehold of the marketplace that's a good thing.

In America he broke the stranglehold of the three major broadcast TV networks.

Approval secured to restart operations, which could be crucial in challenging China's stranglehold on the market

And China's stranglehold on this lucrative trade was over