Israel's system of proportional voting has given the settlers and zealots a chokehold over politics.
Rousey, who had never been so seriously threatened in a bout, barely escaped the chokehold.
There is also what project head Nandan Nilekani calls the chokehold of the "cycle of documentation" on people.
That gives Tajikistan a much-needed road route to the Pakistani port of Karachi, free of its ex-Soviet neighbours' chokehold.
It put an instant end to the isolationism that had kept American foreign policy in a chokehold for two decades.
The morning after, the industry found itself once more subject to the tyranny of oil and the chokehold of changing needs.
Since they have an ultimate chokehold over the country's main data pipelines leading to the Internet, the authorities have two ways to enforce their rules.
Wave after wave of Jewish soldiers threw themselves against the guns of the Jordan Legion in a desperate attempt to break its chokehold on Jerusalem.
He has even achieved a grip over supplies for our troops in Afghanistan second only to the chokehold we granted Pakistan in a fit of strategic ineptitude.
Just so, the time has come for Israelis to confront our own ruling class and develop methods for weakening its chokehold on Israel's domestic and foreign policy.
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.
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.
Just as the economic gains of the past 30 years were made possible by a relaxation of the communist chokehold, future gains will depend increasingly on further deregulation and extension of property rights.
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