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stranglehold

noun as in choke

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Breaking Trump’s stranglehold on the Republican Party is worth enduring a conventionally bad Democratic president for four years.

But Congress was in the “grip of a stranglehold by the executive branch,” defense attorney Charles Nesson told the judge, adding: “There was no way other than the one defendants chose.”

This is why this space has repeatedly called for James to be traded — so they can end his stifling stranglehold on the organization and let them breathe again, rebuild again, win again.

But in a sign that TikTok's stranglehold on the music industry may be waning, the song only got to number 66 in the UK charts, and 61 in the US.

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He pleaded guilty and was sent to serve four years at Centinela, where, with a contraband cell phone, he maintained a stranglehold over Blythe Street, witnesses testified.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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