Word: stranglehold
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...industrial affairs, health, education and immigration. But labor policy proved far thornier. Eleven members signed a "social chapter" that expands E.C. authority over labor practices, including minimum wages, working hours and firings. Again Britain opted out -- hardly surprising, given the years of Thatcherite determination to loosen labor unions' stranglehold on the country's economy...
...conflict over diminishing resources is scrambling the political map of California. Traditional allies such as agriculture and big developers frequently find themselves at odds. Some environmental groups have aligned with cities against agricultural interests to try to break big farmers' stranglehold on water supplies. Others have joined forces with surfers to fight pollution from pulp-paper mills and with commercial fisherman to end logging practices that destroy watersheds...
...once again, he did all that, and more. In his attempt to break the ministries' stranglehold on the economy, Gorbachev made decentralization one of the cornerstones of perestroika. Under the slogan of demokratizatsiya, he created conditions around the country for popular local leaders, frequently outspoken nationalists, to defeat Moscow's minions. As a result of glasnost, the Kremlin faced up to some of the uglier truths of Soviet history, including the illegality of Stalin's annexation of the three Baltic republics...
...evidence since the fighting stopped suggests that Americans would have endorsed Bush's policy even if the President had shared his more pessimistic forecasts about the war's results. To most, turning back aggression and preventing a despot from getting a stranglehold on a vital oil supply were sufficient reasons for the use of American force...
What may be the end of the line for the Nehrus and Gandhis may also rid India of the cult of personality and the stranglehold of centralized power. When Indira was elevated to the Congress presidency in 1959, Nehru was the first to abhor the prospect of a dynasty. He later told an American interviewer, "I am not capable of ruling from the grave. How terrible it would be if I, after all I have said about the processes of democratic government, were to attempt to handpick a successor. The best I can do for India is to help...