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Strangle hold   Listen
noun
Strangle hold  n.  
1.
(Wrestling) A hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
2.
A forceful influence that strongly inhibits freedom of action; as, the oil price jump put a stranglehold on the economy. "Zona believes that Microsoft's entry into this fray breaks what has been, by all appearances, Netscape's stranglehold on the Internet. Microsoft is not licensing any technology from Netscape, and as part of this announcement, several alliances which historically would have been with Netscape were included. The impact of this announcement on Netscape was huge." "SAN FRANCISCO, November 6, 1996 If Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates were a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wanted some of the precious liquid to cut a deal with him. With that statement, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison closed a question-and-answer session with reporters and analysts held here Tuesday at Oracle OpenWorld. During his hour-long appearance, Ellison agitated in favor of low-cost, generic network computers and against Windows-based PCs. "The notion of one company controlling the whole (computer) industry is shocking and unacceptable", Ellison said, referring to what he describes as Microsoft's stranglehold on PCs through its ubiquitous Windows operating systems."





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"Strangle hold" Quotes from Famous Books



... crazy, both of you!" cried Lucile, extricating herself with difficulty from Jessie's strangle hold and smoothing back the hair that was tumbling down in the most becoming disorder—or so her two friends would have told you—while her laughing eyes tried hard to look severe. "Probably it isn't from him at all, and if it is, why—why—well, it ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... Boss," he said. "And would you add to them by keeping that strangle hold 'til you give me just two seconds the start of him?" He wheeled, darting through ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... thrusting hand, and the crushing arm were forcing, forcing slowly, in their terrible strangle hold. The face of the camp boss was hidden from the spectators under the smothering hand. But the perilous angle at which his dark head was thrust back was there for all to see. His struggles, in that merciless hold, were becoming less violent. There was ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum


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