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stranglehold

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stranglehold
a wrestling hold in which a wrestler's arms are pressed against his opponent's windpipe


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But according to director Kirby Dick and a bevy of film mavens he interviews in his expose of the studios' lobbying arm, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the MPAA has also--for the good of the children--placed a stranglehold on what the rest of America is watching.
In the Elite Division, Eddy McKean of Jerome, Idaho, led a Southwest Series sweep of the first three places and Ryan Lawler of Colleyville, Texas, ended the Western stranglehold on victory lane by winning the second Elite race.
In the Caribbean, where the merger eliminates TWA as a competitor, American's stronghold could become a stranglehold.
 
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