To be sure, the crisis has placed a stranglehold on countries worldwide.

But the stranglehold of North Korea s dictatorship is based on total isolation.

The transition to democracy promised freedom and prosperity to all who had suffered in communism s stranglehold.

People say they voted for Haider and Strache to break the stranglehold of the ruling parties.

To modernize Russia, one must break the stranglehold of corruption, establish accountability, and free the media.

Europe undoubtedly needs Russian gas, but fears that this gives Russia a monopolistic stranglehold over Europe are exaggerated.

This is why the suicides are most prevalent in the cotton belt on which the seed industries claim is rapidly becoming a stranglehold.

Nonetheless, such violence had not emerged out of nothing, but had a direct and identifiable origin the stranglehold of Israeli occupation and its cumulative effects.

During that time, kidnapping, torture, and murder had a stranglehold over the Latin American press stenography was an infinitely safer choice for those reporting the news.

Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.

President Vladimir Putin s choice of Dmitri Medvedev, Chairman of Gazprom, the gas company with an emerging stranglehold on European energy supplies, only throws this question into an even starker light.

When US global dominance was unquestioned, as in the 1990 s, it made sense for Israel to secure its long term future by maintaining a stranglehold over the US Congress.

The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud s far right central committee held on Israeli politics.

The overthrow of Saddam was the longstanding pet idea of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, which was already arguing in the 1990 s that Saddam was likely to achieve a stranglehold over a significant proportion of the world s oil supplies.

Rising production costs and falling prices for their products is a recipe for indebtedness, and debt is the main cause of farmers suicides. This is why the suicides are most prevalent in the cotton belt on which the seed industries claim is rapidly becoming a stranglehold.