Sentences with phrase «u.s. stranglehold»

Hagino, the bronze medalist in 2012, won with a time of four minutes, 6.05 seconds to end a U.S. stranglehold on the event dating back to 1996.

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Or, maybe Kuchar was just trying to build some drama into the seemingly never - ending process of fielding a U.S. team that, once again, will hope to use revenge as motivation to end the European stranglehold on the cup.

With Hayward at the wheel, Miss Supertest III in 1959 broke the U.S.'s 39 - year stranglehold on the world championship trophy.

We have to escape «public sector unions» stranglehold on state and local governments,» agreed Mort Zuckerman, billionaire editor of U.S. News & World Report, «or it will crush us.»

Bright Futures USA, a new non-profit organization started by Missouri's Joplin Public Schools, plans to tackle poverty's stranglehold on student achievement across the U.S.

Secretary Kerry is well - aware of U.S. national security issues, and he knows the best way to strengthen national security vis - à - vis dependency on oil is to break the stranglehold of oil on the transportation system, by dramatically reducing demand and developing alternative transportation energy sources.