Word: stranglehold
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...office, leveling charges of nepotism and corruption. Chaudhry denies wrongdoing and refuses to go. The resulting furor threatens Musharraf's increasingly tenuous hold on power. Musharraf says he's the only leader capable of reining in the Islamic militants that threaten Pakistan, but his detractors claim that his stranglehold on power has sidelined moderates and delivered Pakistan's government into the hands of an extremist minority. Chaudhry just wants his job back. The fortunes of the two men mirror that of Pakistan. Will the country become more open and democratic, committed to civilian institutions-or will it collapse further...
...stranglehold that only occasionally seemed in jeopardy during the past decade-plus, when Dartmouth challenged Princeton in 2000, 2001, and 2004, or when Cornell met Harvard in the ’05 ICS, is now suddenly and officially kaput...
Unable to crack Penn and Princeton’s stranglehold on Ivy League supremacy, Sullivan nonetheless brought respect to the program with a number of winning seasons in the 1990s and the early part of this decade. Still, he has failed to crack .500 in the league since 1996 and has watched his teams skid to prolonged late-season losing streaks in each of the past two years...
...Since Hamas won control of the Palestian government in last December's elections, the U.S. and Western Europeans have cut off direct funds to the Palestinian Authority. Many critics have argued that the measures have amounted to a financial stranglehold of the Palestinian territories that is fueling a humanitarian - and political - crisis. But the Western powers insist they have tried to avert a that kind of crisis - and international pressure to compromise with Hamas - by pouring massive amounts aid into the territories via non-governmental organizations. According to U.S. and European officials, the Palestinians received $700 million in external support...
...centrist government, which would probably hand power to hawkish parties who are in no mood to make peace with the Palestinians. As Gershom Gorenberg, an expert on the history of Israel's settlements, says, "Olmert's biggest fear is Jews fighting Jews, and that gives the settlers a stranglehold over the government...