Sentences with phrase «stranglehold by»

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.

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The current market is dealing with one whale of a black eye caused by suspicion over high - frequency trading and its stranglehold on market activity.

ESPN, for example, is seen by many analysts as being protected from the winds of change because it has a stranglehold on sports - related content — something viewers still seem willing to pay for.

The network had been seen as almost invulnerable to digital trends because it has such a stranglehold on sports broadcasting, but it's clear that it is being affected by cord cutting.

Broker UBS estimates Aldi could almost double sales in five years, challenging the stranglehold held by Coles and Woolworths on the $ 85 billion market and increasing pressure on independent retailers supplied by Metcash.

Dr Stone said that approval could hand ADM a «stranglehold» similar to the position held by Coles and Woolworths, while Mr Coulton flagged «serious concerns» among the majority of grain growers in his seat of Parkes.

A grab by Marfrig Global Foods for a controlling stake in National Beef Packing Company is ruffling hairs in the US cattle industry as the deal tightens Brazilian meat producers» stranglehold on the international market.

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.

While the season has been a pretty tough one for Arsenal fans to take, apart from the happy bookend that were provided by us beating Jose Mourinho and Chelsea to win the Community Shield and then the implosion of Tottenham that allowed us to nip past them on the final day and retain our stranglehold in north London, it has probably been even worse for Kieran Gibbs.

In only 1 season has a team operating with a lone CF won the league with that CF scoring less than 20 goals and that was Mourinho's 2006 Chelsea that operated with a 4 3 3 with Drogba, Malouda and Kalou as the trident usually winning by 1 — 0 strangleholds on games.

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.

Spurs were therefore hindered from getting a stranglehold on the game and should've been several ahead by the interval.

So did the UPN maintain a stranglehold on its governments, made easier by its rule that its governors, or governorship candidates, were state chairmen of the party, while Awo, as presidential candidate, was national president.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.

It is hoped the new bank — which will use the funds to lend up to # 10 billion to companies — will «break the stranglehold» of the high street banks, which are often blamed for thwarting the economic recovery by refusing to lend.»

The governor - elect pooh - poohed one aspect of the report — a call for fuller financial disclosure reporting by executive chamber staffers — during his TALK 1300 radio interview with The Post's Fred Dicker earlier today, saying it doesn't address the biggest problem facing Albany: Breaking the stranglehold on government by special interests.

Those against the budget are basing their opposition mostly on misleading information supplied by advocacy groups and service providers who are merely looking to maintain their stranglehold on taxpayer dollars.

Displaying wit and wisdom, he argued in a stirring speech earlier this year that the stranglehold on power by a few officials and their extreme secrecy, which they somehow managed to make acceptable, were corrosive to democracy.

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.

I will support anyone who will help to break the stranglehold that Noam and his little machine have on New Rochelle in which they divert school resources (brain power and money) to «their» schools and raise campaign cash by tapping into companies and individuals with business before the City government.

Only by facilitating practical steps will the stranglehold of bad metrics be broken.

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It's the year 2043, and the central government has been replaced by The Corporation, an entity that has the stranglehold on freedom.

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's already been announced that the Stranglehold movie won't be directed by Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.

After a stranglehold on the # 1 spot for six months, Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name) has finally relinquished the top spot... for now.

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.

But that would mean convincing Fulton County's legislative delegation (which can put a stranglehold on any reform effort, as they did during the 1990s with efforts by residents in what is now Sandy Springs to form their own city government), as well as working with the Republican - dominated legislature and new governor Nathan Deal (who is no exemplar on school reform).

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.

Such clever technologies can help break the diesel stranglehold over the European car market - courtesy the subsidised tax rates given by the European and British governments.

The Fusion Hybrid finally cracks the code to unravel Toyota's stranglehold on the eco market by offering consumers what they actually want: a gorgeous sedan shape, a quiet cabin and very good handling.

Fearing a future where books are sold almost exclusively by one retailer, publishers have already tried to break Amazon's stranglehold.

Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.

But Acer knows a thing or two about portable computing: they're the guys who put a stranglehold on the netbook industry by offering a competitive product at cut - rate prices.

The result is a stranglehold on the e-reader market by Amazon as well as new strength in the tablet market.

I agree that they are undermining the publishing oligopoly by eroding their stranglehold on distribution.

Amazon was already well on its road to dominance by the time the Kindle rolled around, but, the runaway success of the company's e-reader has only served to cement the online retailer's stranglehold on publishing — a recent report showed that Amazon accounts for more than 80 percent of e-book sales.

After all, all they were trying to do was protect the little guy by breaking the stranglehold Amazon has on publishing.

Various forums users are believing this mysterious title is a sequel to Stranglehold — which was connected to the film Hard Boiled and was directed by John Woo.

In addition to touching on the Santa Blanca cartel's stranglehold on the South American country in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the game's launch trailer also makes reference to how players can «team up» to take down the organization by collaborating in four - player cooperative multiplayer.

They exist to fight for the return of painting to the centre of artistic endeavour and debate, and to expose the alleged stranglehold on the art world by a group of powerful champions of conceptualism led by the Tate chief Sir Nicholas Serota.

By walking out of COP19, we're walking into a fight with the real enemies to progress: the coal, oil and gas companies that have a stranglehold over our governments and economy.

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.

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.

The common blue meadow violet could soon be pushing up the daisies if climate change doesn't relax its stranglehold on the New Jersey state flower, according to a report by the National Wildlife Federation.

Blocks» head of engineering, Karl Taylor, said that the project is meant to «open up the smartwatch OS space to the open source community in a bid to loosen the stranglehold on the industry by other, essentially proprietary operating system.»

We've been in a «do - nothing» mode for years, paralyzed by the National Rifle Association's stranglehold on elected officials and the gun lobby's mass marketing of assault - style weapons as a constitutional right necessary for self - protection.

The assumption by many is that it's an control - freak thing: Apple refuses to give up on its stranglehold on third - party accessory makers.

While the EU, led by French efforts, is trying to place a stranglehold on Bitcoin activity, other countries have embraced the technology and the innovation that comes with it.