Sentences with phrase «like stranglehold»

As of 2005 From Software have branched into more licensed gaming fare and whilst that may sound like terrifyingly bad news, they've approached the task with similar otaku fervour and created a whole new franchise that epitomises their nerd - like stranglehold on all things mecha.

Amazon's aggressive pricing has given it a monopoly - like stranglehold on the ereader market, but when its products are as good as this, we can't complain.

Not exact matches

now, not to sound like a fan boy, but i'm pretty bloody sure the pool have a stranglehold on being england's elite team in europe, claiming, by far, the most european titles.

It was not that long ago when we were noting that even a natural disaster like the earthquake that rattled parts of New Zealand early last year could not shake Lydia Ko's nearly flawless play as the then - teen phenom continued to compile win after win and secure her stranglehold on the world No. 1 ranking.

Roma leads the league with 61.8 % possession and 87 % passing, while their 10.6 dribbles per match are good for third best in Serie A. Led by players like Seyoud Keita and Miralem Pjanic, Roma has put a stranglehold on the midfield nearly every week.

Real Madrid's stranglehold over the transfer market has been such a familiar narrative over the last two decades that last summer seemed like a whimper.

He should be loosening the Big Six's stranglehold on the energy market to allow in new players, who get their energy from renewable sources like the wind, the sun and waves.

If there were enough people who thought like the IDC to create a third party in the political center to break the stranglehold of tweedledum and tweedledee misgoverning NY, I'd support them in a heartbeat.

It will take action by AG's like New York's Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts AG Maura Healy and others to hold the oil industry to account and hope that those revelations finally break the stranglehold over climate change policies.

Dark City failed to gain much attention upon release, overshadowed, like so many films, by the box office stranglehold of James Cameron's Titanic.

It took 18 months to shoot each portions of «Infinity War» back - to - back (the sequel is due out subsequent summer season), placing a stranglehold on a few of our absolute best film stars, like Chris Hemsworth and Anthony Mackie.

In fact Stranglehold's level designs are like that, some seem extremely inspired and well thought out while others just manage to feel a bit dry and missing a lot of necessary elements.

Although Stranglehold doesn't put all the right pieces together, if you like action games, then I would highly recommend it as a rental.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

It's about not treating students like dirt and breaking the stranglehold the unions have over any kind of meaningful change like longer school days or school years, etc..

I agree with you that corporations like Amazon need to innovate and increase the number of uses for their e-readers, but it appears they're not interested in doing that because they've got such a stranglehold on the e-book market in the US so to get an e-reader with the capabilities I want I'm going to pay Onyx wayy too much money.

The members and language shared between Gamergate, the Puppies, and Reddit users who profited from last year's nude picture leak indicate that a «protest» like freeping this year's Hugo Awards isn't actually about addressing some imagined «ideological stranglehold» that women and historically othered audiences have on genre writing, but about misogyny, racism, and fear of the LGBTQ + spectrum.

While Intel's got a pretty solid stranglehold on the PC CPU market, most phones and tablets run on Qualcomm and Nvidia brains, like Snapdragon and Tegra (respectively).

Like my friend Cody Willard, I believe that one of the most important things that could happen politically would be to break the stranglehold that the Republican / Democrat duopoly has on the political process.

Almost like if Tarantino made a version of Stranglehold (which I like for the most part).

Under the leadership of Crawford Starrick, the Templars have a stranglehold on the city, and a sinister gang called the Blighters run things to their liking.

However, if you look at the main character, he looks nothing like Chow Yun - Fat, who was the star in both Hard Boiled and Stranglehold.

There's still a mountain of software sitting about here awaiting inspection, so expect comment and criticism on the likes of Transformers: The Game, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Stranglehold, and a slew of others soon.

Gamers of recent years will instantly make comparisons to games like Total Overdose or 2007's Stranglehold.

Add to this that Dale doesn't account here for broader trends like new urbanism and increased density, more telecommuting and rapid growth in mass transit ridership and biking, and the prospect of breaking the stranglehold of big oil becomes tantalizingly plausible.

1) Maybe they should come out of the closet, (like etudiant upstream), all those young people who changed research direction because of being thwarted by the mainstream orthodoxy and stranglehold on the grants, anonymously on the blogs.

Just like open - source server software made it impossible for Microsoft to extend its stranglehold to servers and the back - end infrastructure business, these newer mobile platforms will act as speed barriers to Microsoft's mobile ambitions.

Blockchain - based transactions are already loosening that stranglehold and eating into the market share of firms like Western Union.