Word: stranglehold
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...national computerized data bank allowing for immediate checks on a gun buyer's record. Critics claimed it would take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to set up such a computer network and charged that the plan was really designed to scuttle the Brady bill. "The stranglehold of the N.R.A. on Congress is now broken," crowed Representative Charles E. Schumer, ; a New York Democrat and a co-sponsor of the waiting-period bill. "They had this aura of invincibility . . . and they were beaten...
...about a week, it looked as thought the Harvard women's tennis team would lose its eight-year stranglehold on the Ivy title...
After the Harvard offense was completely stiffled by the Wildcats stranglehold defense on the weekend, handling Yale seems quite a daunting feat. But Kleinfelder felt her troops should have won the Saturday contest, and she remains confident in her youth corps...
...achieve, both say progress can come only through a market economy buttressed by massive aid from Europe and the U.S. President Ramiz Alia, head of the Party of Labor since Hoxha's death in 1985, made tentative moves toward reform early last year, when he pledged to break the stranglehold of party management and introduced limited price reforms. After a series of mass demonstrations in December, the government allowed the formation of opposition parties...
During her tenure, Thatcher effected changes in British life that are now probably beyond anybody's power, or even wish, to undermine; not even the Labourites, for example, would want to restore the stranglehold that unions exercised on the pre-Thatcher economy. Nor has Major shown much philosophical deviation from Thatcherism: the impulse to rely on private enterprise rather than government still rules...