Sentences with phrase «stranglehold over»

The delivery of legal services is a play with many actors... The days of law firms having a stranglehold over legal delivery have given way to the rise of in - house...

Toronto Star: Lawyers and Judges Fight to Maintain their Stranglehold Over a Justice System that is Failing Canadians

The batteries in this bike have a good chance of being the batteries that finally start to chip away at internal combustion's stranglehold over the automobile industry.

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.

We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe — and would benefit the vast majority — are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.

With our once beloved company suffering the departure of many of their prominent figures, and Microsoft's crippling stranglehold over their IP, it's hard to imagine a full fledged return to their former glory.

From then on I found a hypnotic pleasure in running across rooftops of the city of Glass, where Faith lives, dodging and beating up the corporate security forces charged with maintaining the super rich's stranglehold over the populace.

Its launch has been a smart move on part of Amazon as it helped the company to further maintain its stranglehold over the e-reader market.

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.

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, although union bosses yesterday welcomed moves to outlaw teachers without formal qualifications.

On acne forums where the knowledge is a little more advanced, superoxide dismutase still rarely gets discussed; the anti-ageing mob has a stranglehold over SOD marketing.

As broad families of food species go, berries have maintained a stranglehold over antioxidants for years now and there's little prospect of that changing.

The truth is that sugar has such a stranglehold over the food industry that if you eat any processed foods, you will inevitably get more than you expect.

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.

Republicans rule the suburbs and County government; while democrats maintain a stranglehold over Syracuse city hall.

One of the key problems in Parliament which is little understood, but which hugely undermines its effectiveness, is the Whips» stranglehold over the scrutiny of Government bills.

In May 2013, Fox described a vote for independence as a «significant defeat for the British state and its stranglehold over our economy, society, culture and politics», as well as an opportunity to» [repudiate] neo-liberalism, corporatism, the financialisation of our economy and existing class relations».

In a matter of days, his stranglehold over British politics has disintegrated.

Among other things, the stranglehold over Gaza's borders was to be loosened.

It wasn't long ago when it seemed that the tobacco lobby's stranglehold over New York policymaking was finally broken.

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.

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.

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.

Arsenal's decline from the top has been met with Tottenham's rise from mid-table mediocrity as the former's stranglehold over this great fixture appears to have ended.

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.

«It's the leagues» last hurrah to perpetuate their stranglehold over sports betting which they condone and exploit to their own benefit,» Lesniak said.

The AEPi house has had a stranglehold over the Crown in Madison since the League's inception in the Fall of 2016.

The religious right still has a stranglehold over several key areas.

Facebook's stranglehold over the traffic pipe has pushed digital publishers into an uneasy alliance with the $ 350 billion behemoth, and the news business has been caught up in a jittery debate about what, precisely, the company's intentions are.

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.

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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.

This will push the issue of employer paid healthcare right to the front burner and topple the stranglehold the capitalists have had over this aspect to slave labor, and help to force a single payor system to our healthcare.

In order to break through the stranglehold of Communist Party members over every sclerotic institution of Soviet life, he must go as far as he dares to empower the creativity of individual citizens.

And it will be an extra kick in the teeth if our north London rivals Tottenham finally break the stranglehold we have had over them for the whole of the Arsene Wenger era.

January 30 — The stranglehold that German leisurewear and kit manufacturer had Adidas over the UEFA's competitions looks to be gently releaseing.

The race has been going on between Messi and Ronaldo over the last few years, but the recent run has helped the Portuguese superstar gain a stranglehold on this contest.

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

However, if history teaches us anything, it is that the stranglehold that the constantly shifting «common sense», «middle ground», of the dominant ideology, has over the mass of people, is actually never permanent.

«The fact that reform continues to languish illustrates the stranglehold the NRA has over Washington, and it's time for our elected leaders to show the political courage to vote for the safety of the American people,» Cuomo said.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

A Clinton aide said the plan was a «a key plank of Clinton's plan to challenge the stranglehold that wealthy interests have over our political system» and would allow «Americans to establish common sense rules to protect against the undue influence of billionaires and special interests and to restore the role of average voters in elections.»

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..

Apple's iPad and iPad mini may have been a top - selling item over the holiday period, but entries from competitors sold strongly enough to slightly loosen Cupertino's stranglehold on the tablet sector.