Complete power over a person or situation

Usage examples of stranglehold.

I used my feet to push the attached torso the other way, thus dislocating it with a satisfying rubbery feel, and bashed my head back into the face of the person trying to get a stranglehold on me.

Saddam strangleholds over aspects of Iraqi society that he never possessed in the past.

The stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer through its history.

Swallowing hard, Cru touched his neck unconsciously where thick layers of powder masked the heavy bruises from Rabban's recent stranglehold.

Swallowing hard, Cru touched his neck unconsciously where thick layers of powder masked the heavy bruises from Rabban's recent stranglehold.

I should have realized that the Ehleen Church would never forget, never forgive me for weakening their stranglehold on their adherents, for discrediting their motives and for depriving them of most of their ill-gotten gains.

Dusky variegated leaves hunkered against a stem that wound in a stranglehold around the smooth trunk of a balsam fir.

The evidence of the century points to just one conclusion The Fremen army that swept through the empire during Paul's Jihad was, a hundred years later, a broken reed, top heavy with bureaucrats, dependent on local support, and often manned by sick and un willing conscripts It may well be that its total strength declined, too, for Leto never allowed a census on Arrakis, and the strength of his military mm was the most closely guarded of secrets Had it not been for Leto's spice based stranglehold on die Spac ing Guild and nis consequent absolute monopoly on transportation and communication, the Fremen army could not have secured a single planet against a determined .

Larger and more heavily armed than Pickering's ship, Canandaigua was stationed one Mile further to sea as part of the stranglehold to intercept commercial ships attempting to supply the Confederacy.

He came up behind Lambreth, got a stranglehold with his right arm, and plunged the chisel in Lambreth's exposed throat with his good left hand.

He didn't want to give up clinical medicine, just loosen the stranglehold it had on his life.

Eventually peace between the Kingdom andKesh would be achieved, and when that happened the profitable luxurytrade would again be open, and now with Jacob Esterbrook dead, therewould be no stranglehold on trade with the South.

Flandry supposed that the constant presence of some member of the governing board was a survival of earlier days when Biocontrol's stranglehold wasn't quite so firm.

But they were only a handful, the remnants of men who had pioneered Fenris before the companies fastened their strangleholds on the port and the three-quarters-frozen world.

I had had experience with the martial arts, including judo, and I well knew the nature of the Osae-waza, or art of holding, and the Shime-waza, or art of strangleholds.