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Перевод: stranglehold

[существительное]
удушение; мертвая хватка

Тезаурус:

1. Some Labour MEPs and independent socialists have long argued this is the way to prevent a stranglehold over European integration being exercised by national governments.
2. the increasing stranglehold of the big brewers has led to high prices, poor choice and pub closures; and many new small breweries have been driven out of business.
3. An England representative team came second in the strongest open tournament of the year in Berne, Switzerland, to break the familiar stranglehold on the top prizes by players from the former Soviet Union.
4. Under PR, the trade unions would still have a stranglehold over industrial policy, education would still be in the grip of local authorities and any proposals for effective tax cuts would have been quietly shelved.
5. Similarly, the 1989 plans to loosen barristers' stranglehold on appearance in court ran into such heavy opposition even from radicals - or what passes for radicalism in such a deeply orthodox business - that the plans of an elected government were tempered by vested interest.
6. That gave Standard a stranglehold on the oil market which it might still enjoy had not America's trustbusters split the company up.
7. Plastic card investment: Barclays Bank looks set to tighten its stranglehold on the processing of plastic card transactions and will invest more than 22.5m in the service.
8. Farmers with reasonable sized holdings were in a matter of years freed from the stranglehold of money lenders.
9. The idea is based on a system that works well in France, where supermarkets have less of a stranglehold on food supplies and there is a tradition of small farm-ers taking their produce to town.
10. It was 1963 and as David started his new job, "Mersey Mania" was taking its stranglehold on the charts with The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Freddie and The Dreamers; everything with a Liverpudlian accent tasted success.
11. However, he believes the increased market for green products, and the premium price people are willing to pay, makes the conversion commercially viable - and will help farmers to break the stranglehold of the powerful agrochemical companies.
12. Even now, Marie could sense that the stranglehold of her rage had been broken.
13. It will be able to draw on material and expertise from Murdoch's American TV Guide, which has a stranglehold on the US market.