Sentences with word «stranglehold»

The clear path required to address the climate crisis is one that breaks humanity free from the current stranglehold of fossil fuels on our lives and the planet.

It is obvious in the case of the House of Commons, but it would also be true of the Lords and is reflected in the fact that, in our survey, 58 per cent of peers agreed that the party political stranglehold over legislation would also be diminished.

Geologists say newfound deposits in the embattled country could fulfill the world's desire for rare earth and critical minerals and end opium's local stranglehold in the process

@RazieMah - given the 50 + years of economic stranglehold by the most powerful country on Earth, would you say that Cuba is functioning substantially more efficiently than other similar countries such Haiti, Dominican Republic, or Guatemala.

Chrysler has tried to muscle in and break Ford's stranglehold for the law enforcement vehicle market by introducing a police version of its Dodge Charger.

Dartmouth College, coached by Al Merrill and Bill Beck, broke Denver University's four - year stranglehold on NCAA Intercollegiate title by taking top two slalom places plus second and third in downhill.

«Are we going to get into same stranglehold as we have with the supermarket duopoly of Coles and Woolworths?»

Nevertheless, he lost his seat in the 2010 anti-tax and anti-science «wave» election that brought the Tea Party stranglehold to the House.

Much creativity is needed in the global situation as the leaders of capital use the most sophisticated and calculated means to increase their economic stranglehold on the poor peoples.

But the ebook stores have the same stranglehold over commercial publishers — Amazon has in the past removed the «Buy» button from certain publishers» books during disputes over wholesale discounts.

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

This points to the increasing stranglehold of Cambodia's kleptocratic elite on its natural resources, replicating a pattern of corruption, cronyism, and rights abuses previously found in the forestry sector and extractive industries.

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Amid a continued stranglehold on Bitcoin withdrawals at exchanges, China's over-the-counter (OTC) market is exploding with a premium on Bitcoin price.

Just as the Brown decision broke the segregation logjam, so Vergara provides an opportunity to break the union stranglehold over teacher - tenure policy.

I've remained astonished and surprised that CORE (including especially the Toronto Real Estate Board) have continued to operate as if no other market force could impact their current stranglehold on real estate.

The breaking of the TREB and MLS stranglehold on the real estate industry is a godsend.

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.

There is no lie the man wont tell — no low that he wont stoop to — to try to retain the democrats power grab stranglehold on our government and the slot machine jackpot that Obamacare is about to pay off into his cronies pockets.

Playing through Stranglehold never gets boring and while the game can be classed as a tad short with only needing around six hours to slog through it, there is a tonne of replay value and the ability to play through on four different difficulty settings from casual through to hard boiled.

The summit was the last day of the Occupy Inauguration mass rally and protest seeing to break the «stranglehold duopoly of the GOP and DNC.»

Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting, breaking the white male stranglehold of Conceptual and Minimal art, and foreshadowing, among other tendencies, Germany's Junge Wilde movement.

Watch as Jacob rallies his gang to break the corrupt stranglehold on London and bring the working class a brighter future.

It's really not that different and might encourage OPEC to produce more oil and counter the monopolistic stranglehold OPEC has on the rest of the world.

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

He and Secretary Duncan see eye to eye, he said, about needing to «break the tenure stranglehold that the teachers» unions have had all across the country.

Labour's decision to drop its opposition to free schools - a direct challenge to the local authority stranglehold over state schooling - is likely to anger trade unions

And the ideological stranglehold that hindered honest examination of reform efforts has also loosened significantly.

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.

But Cech knows Arsenal's North London stranglehold is now all but over following their stalemate at Sunderland on Sunday.

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

«Penny Arcade Adventures broke a year - long stranglehold on the highest - grossing debut, beating «Worms HD» out by $ 50,000 in the 3 day opening.»

It really meant that the new system worked, that the traditional publishing stranglehold on print books really was vanishing.

The international / local, trendy / traditional balancing act distinguishes Edinburgh; crucially, its original programme challenges on intellectual, contemporary terms the conceptual stranglehold that so often dulls smarter venues.

Spangenberg — who over the years has been on the receiving end of «troll» criticism for his patent fortune — recently pursued a more interesting path involving use of his patent knowledge to target what many of the populist - minded would judge to be an unfair stranglehold over pricing.

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.

In a nutshell, the big fear is that the network's lucrative stranglehold on sports is disintegrating, pulled apart by a combination of cord cutting, streaming via digital services and competitive pressures from all sides.

Revitalized political parties could undermine the media stranglehold on our political language and provide more avenues for the nonwealthy to get involved in politics.

The steam engine led to oppression for miners and other workers, the spread of vast urban slums, and a ruthless stranglehold by capitalistic investors on the wage earner.24 In the twentieth century, the effects of the automobile have been similarly far - reaching and ambivalent.

The symbolism of the Tide winning the national title with a freshman (Tua Tagovailoa) throwing to another freshman (Devonta Smith) suggests the latter, but it's something to watch, especially with Bama's recruiting stranglehold loosening.

Garrapolo to the Niners made the process much easier for the Bills, Jets or Dolphins to break the Patriots stranglehold of the AFC East.

Nemanja Matic breaks up the Man City stranglehold in the middle though, as he's proven to be a crucial signing so far this season adding a calming influence, although he probably would miss out if Pogba was available.

It is also likely that he will interject his name as the one to finally, maybe, break the Messi - Ronaldo stranglehold over the Ballon d'Or.

Villa have an impressive head - to - head record with their Midland rivals and it's down to Gerard Houllier to inspire the Villa dressing room as relinquishing their mental stranglehold over Birmingham really would be a damaging blow, and also another new low for a club and it's supporters who aren't used to tasting so many defeats.

Power and control are all well and good, and your total stranglehold over those exact two traits while manager of Manchester United certainly worked out in the club's favour but, now that you've retired, your clear desperation to clutch onto your two borderline psychopathic obsessions has frankly become a tad bit of an annoyance.

At that point in the campaign it was hard to imagine Juventus maintaining their domestic stranglehold, never mind building on last season's Champions League run.

In order to qualify to be a lifeguard, applicants must meet a 200 - yard time requirement; swim 25 yards without coming up for air; retrieve an object from the bottom of the pool in 14 feet of water from a surface dive; break free from front and back strangleholds; and cross-chest carry a «victim,» using their free arm to swim 25 yards.