Rousey, who had never been so seriously threatened in a bout, barely escaped the chokehold.

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There is also what project head Nandan Nilekani calls the chokehold of the "cycle of documentation" on people.

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That gives Tajikistan a much-needed road route to the Pakistani port of Karachi, free of its ex-Soviet neighbours' chokehold.

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It put an instant end to the isolationism that had kept American foreign policy in a chokehold for two decades.

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The morning after, the industry found itself once more subject to the tyranny of oil and the chokehold of changing needs.

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If the Android market challenge to Apple fades in 2012, the negotiation power Apple possesses with its component vendors may start to resemble the chokehold Nokia had back in 2007.

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Also loosening the regulatory chokehold on entrepreneurs is the one piece of bipartisan liberalization legislation to become law this session of Congress: the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.

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