Those high interest rates strangle businesses and households, causing further economic collapse and making debt ever more unsustainable.

But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.

Their interiors resemble the inside of a smooth plastic jar there are no hard edges hooks fold down there is no bedding that one can use to strangle oneself.

The Jay Treaty of 1794, led by Hamilton, brought peace and trade with Britainwhile Madison, with strong support from Jefferson, wanted to strangle the former mother country without going to war.

A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy s was speaking a half century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.

This is clearly an attempt by the Syrian Government to strangle the economy of Lebanon by impeding trade across their border, which is Lebanon's gateway to the rest of the Arab world and a means of continuing to interfere in Lebanese affairs.