Word: stranglehold
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...tanks and the thump of artillery fire threatened to make a mockery of their efforts. The 60,000-strong Israeli force, still trying to consolidate its control over southern Lebanon, advanced to the outskirts of Beirut. There the Israelis linked up with Christian Phalangist allies to impose a stranglehold over 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas and 1,500 Syrian soldiers trapped inside the western part of the city...
...land reform program was started with two main objectives: 1) to end the feudal stranglehold that a few families held on the country's agricultural and economic wealth, and 2) to deprive the growing leftist insurgency of an opportunity to exploit the grievances of the peasantry. It was to be carried out in three phases...
...attack got a firm stranglehold on the Elis early as they racked up the game's first nine goals. Co-captain Annie MacMillan led the way for the Crimson in the early going with tallies five through eight...
...institutional reforms passed in the mid-1970s did more than overhaul the budgetmaking process. They were designed to break the stranglehold on legislation held by powerful committee chairmen, often crusty autocrats and disproportionately Southern conservatives who attained power by virtue of seniority, not skill. One not wholly unexpected result has been that even relative newcomers now wield considerable power. Eager to make their mark, but lacking expertise, they tend to produce sloppily drafted laws. Example: an energy bill produced by the Senate Finance Committee was intended to assist Northerners earning below the poverty line in paying their heating bills...
...course, always so easy at the College Board. The SAT got in trouble about three years ago, when Ralph Nader and some colleagues accused the Board and ETS of using biased test questions, loading them with arbitrary or down-right incorrect answers, and keeping too tight a stranglehold on college admissions and education in general with the statistics they spewed out. Under pressure from Nader and others, New York State passed a "truth-in-testing" law requiring that the tests be gradually "demystified...