noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
break
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Home rule and proportional representation are the means by which we shall break the stranglehold of Westminster.
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That marks a victory for Microsoft and breaks a stranglehold that Netscape was putting on the telecommunications industry.
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He was more instrumental than any other independent producer in breaking the stranglehold of the major studios.
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We can, if we will it, break the stranglehold of the corporate king who uses our airways to control us.
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The New Hope will break their stranglehold .
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Little can be done to break this stranglehold until banks meet the needs of the low-paid.
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Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half, when John Polston moved up to rattle a post.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For years, two giant recording companies have had a stranglehold on the CD market.
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Satellite TV should at last break the stranglehold of the big national TV channels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All is slanted to maintaining the Establishment stranglehold on vast tracts of land for their own selfish playgrounds.
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Even now, Marie could sense that the stranglehold of her rage had been broken.
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Farmers with reasonable sized holdings were in a matter of years freed from the stranglehold of money lenders.
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He is down, but his stranglehold on the retail jewellery scene means that no one should say he is out.
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That marks a victory for Microsoft and breaks a stranglehold that Netscape was putting on the telecommunications industry.
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The balance of payments has become a stranglehold .