stranglehold

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Tariffs put a strangle hold on trade.
关税束缚了贸易。
I know the burden and strangle hold it is having on your life!
我知道的负担和扼杀它举行了您的生活！
Artificial supplemental irrigation is a new technology which could effectively resolve the "strangle hold" drought, and guarantee the high and stable yield of potato.
人工注水补灌是有效解决旱作马铃薯春夏＂卡脖子＂旱，使其稳产、丰产的新技术。

If you believe money has a strangle hold over the entire political system this is ceding the moral high ground.
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As the recession continues to drag along, retailers, the housing market, restaurants, and consumers feel the ever increasing strangle hold of the tightening economy.
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With Google fading from the search picture in China, it leaves further room for Baidu to establish a strangle-hold on market share.
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To have a stranglehold on something means to have control over it and prevent it from being free or from developing.