Translation for 'stranglehold' from English to Icelandic

stranglehold

fantatak {hv} [hálstak]

• He is also one of the few fighters who have a legal win through the popularly called "rape choke" or two-handed stranglehold, after defeating Thomas Denny with it.
• A stranglehold is a grappling hold that strangles the opponent.
• The Philippines sent 200 medical personnel to assist coalition forces in the liberation of Kuwait from the stranglehold of Iraq then led by Saddam Hussein.
• So begins this violent story of power and corruption, where magic and superstition coexist alongside Catholicism and the stranglehold of the Vatican.
• Finally, in September 2007, 4–9 Infantry spearheaded Operation Raider Riviera, the deliberate clearing of Tarmiyah, which eliminated Al Qaeda's stranglehold on this city and allowed the establishment of long-term security.

• The IBC developed a stranglehold on championship boxing, promoting 47 out of 51 championship bouts in the United States from 1949 to 1955.
• In 2003 Tipperary broke through Limerick's stranglehold on the championship and Kelly secured a second Munster medal following a 2–14 to 0–17 defeat of Cork after extra-time.
• They claimed that France, which formerly colonised the country, had a stranglehold on the Ivorian economy, with most ports and major companies being French-owned.
• The Department of Basic Education itself has identified SADTU as an obstruction to government efforts to improve education, with Minister Motshekga describing the union's influence as a "stranglehold" on education.
• The adversary can be manipulated into a position whereby a lock, stranglehold and/or finishing move can be applied.

• Together, although often feuding, Jacob and Lee Shubert overcame the stranglehold on the industry by the Theatrical Syndicate's monopoly under Abe Erlanger and Mark Klaw to build the largest theatre empire in the 20th century.
• In the Cardinals' 1942–1944 stranglehold on the National League championship, Cooper had won 65 games and thrown 23 shutouts.
• According to "Politico", the order marks "the most ambitious effort in generations to reduce the stranglehold of monopolies and concentrated markets in major industries", and could be interpreted as a leftward shift by the Biden Administration on economic policy.
• It's June 10 when Ralph Moody wins at West Memphis Speedway in a DePaolo Engineering Ford, breaking the stranglehold that the Kiekhaefer team has had on the field for 16 races, dating back to the middle of March.
• Also known as a "Japanese stranglehold" ("goku-raku gatame"), "criss-cross stranglehold", "cut-throat", and "cross-armed choke".

• Until 1972, no foreign drivers won the rally until Hannu Mikkola broke through the African stranglehold.
• At the Afrobasket in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2013, many basketball faithful looked up to Nigeria to break the stranglehold Angola had on the continent's basketball but injuries and other technical factors scuttled that dream.
• This consistent play at recent Grand Slams led some to remark that the Williams sisters had a stranglehold on women's tennis.
• The Order of Merit was won for the first time by James Kingston, breaking Charl Schwartzel's three year stranglehold on the title.
• In total, Pompey's campaign removed the Cilician pirates, who had held a stranglehold on Mediterranean commerce and threatened Rome with famine, in a mere 89 days in the summer of 66 [...].