They're using it, as a stranglehold on me.

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.

Immeasurable work has been done to redress the economic stranglehold in which most of our countries find themselves.

The United States stranglehold on the Cuban economy and on Cuban society cost the country 2.764 billion in the year 2004 alone.

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.

Tanks and other armoured vehicles are tightening their stranglehold around the city with the calculated intention of wiping it out, together with its 70,000 inhabitants.

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.

To continue to impose a stranglehold on a victim engaged in a life or death struggle is morally and legally unacceptable, as is the non differentiation between aggressor and victim.

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.

Our purpose is clear by preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, we will deny al Qaeda the safe haven that served as a launching pad for 9 11.

And it would render Bosnia a non viable State because of its location between two hostile States, which could cut off its access to the outside world and, thereby, maintain a stranglehold on its economic life.

Indeed, the military perpetrators of the coup d apos état have taken advantage of the truce accorded them by the Security Council apos s suspension of sanctions to consolidate their hold on power and tighten their stranglehold on the country.

The United Nations and the international community cannot afford to fail in this effort to assist an embattled and courageous people to break the stranglehold of oppression and degradation and to rise up in freedom and dignity within the democratic process.

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.

If it were not for these bitter historic lessons of broken treaties and the subversion of our independence through the stranglehold of Soviet Russian bases, we might be more lenient and understanding about the stationing of Russian Federation troops on our soil.

She pointed out that despite the initiatives developed over the years to deal with the debt crisis, the debt burden continued to place a stranglehold on many economies and, in the Caribbean region, debt payments continued to exceed countries apos capacity to pay.

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.