chokehold

1. A report by the International Crisis Group earlier this year noted the return of long-simmering political disputes, alongside "a domineering approach" from the SPLM, saying it has "a chokehold" on institutions.
   国际危机组织（internationalcrisisgroup）在今年早些时候的一份报告中指出，长期隐而未发的政治纷争将重新出现，加上splm的“专横作派”，这会扼住各项制度的“咽喉”。
2. Take for example the highly effective chokehold.
   比如最有效的扼住喉咙。
3. The high Arctic will become just such a strategic chokehold, with huge natural resources to boot.
   高纬度北极地区将变成一处类似的战略要地，脚下踩着庞大的自然资源。

noun

1. a restraining hold
   1. he grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled

   Synonym:    choke hold

2. complete power over a person or situation
   1. corporations have a stranglehold on the media
   2. the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public

   Synonym:    strangleholdthrottlehold