Preposition: of

• poverty: This severely impedes any opportunity to overcome the current stranglehold of poverty.

• game: Garden was another struggle but FFc appeared to have a stranglehold of the game when they won, bringing their score to 8-0.

• system: A fairer voting system - to allow smaller parties to break the stranglehold of the current two-party system.

• sin: In Christ's death and resurrection the stranglehold of sin and evil on the human race was broken.

Converse of object

• exert: Dave Jones and Simon Marshall had other ideas and working well in tandem they exerted a stranglehold on the league leaders.

• break: Break the stranglehold which big business has on some sports.

• escape: WaterAid is a charity dedicated to helping people escape the stranglehold of poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation.

• gain: How did the two parties gain a stranglehold on municipal power?

• have: They have a stranglehold on the nation's finances.

• take: The oriental plant was probably first planted by the Victorians, but has since taken a massive stranglehold.

Adjective modifier

• economic: It was therefore vital for Britain to prevent Napoleon from gaining an economic stranglehold on the country.

• complete: He looked hungry for the ball and along with Dacourt they had a complete stranglehold on the midfield.

• ideological: Our whole formation toward, and in, filmic enterprises, is dominated by such ideological strangleholds.

Preposition: on

• market: A few financially powerful countries or blocs have a stranglehold on the world market.

• game: Warriors soon exerted their dominance on the game with the Warriors ' backs having a stranglehold on the game.

• area: The risks of a developing a stranglehold on these combined areas need to be examined.

• match: With the wind behind them in the second half, Ware took more of a stranglehold on the match.

• supply: The game was heading for anti-climax, such was France's stranglehold on the supply of possession.

Noun used with modifier

• midfield: The midfield stranglehold went and the game was destined to finish equal.