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Strangling the speculative economy in its cradle, it would have slowed American growth, but would certainly have allowed us to avoid the depression and have produced a society where the malefactors of great wealth did not sit on our necks, demanding trillion dollar bailouts.
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Strangling my youngest child would be illegal, so I laughed instead.
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Strangling would be quieter but next to impossible with someone as muscular as the colonel.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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Strangling your wife is a very very serious thing and saying that you were high on drugs isn't an excuse I'm sure your average Joe can ever use.
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Strangling frustration—to feel how wet she was but not be able to put his tongue or shaft between her thighs…
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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Strangling the media...and NGOs.....don't they know the NGOs love them?
Nothing like a Hamas government.... GayandRight 2009
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Strangling women, shooting a woman at close range with an MP40, visual scalping of victims, come on.
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Strangling any potential rival or viable alternative to America's vision of a free marketeconomy ...
Why Is Iran Still in the Cross-Hairs? Clues from the Project for a New American Century 2008
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Strangling Dissent, Muzzling Whistleblowers yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Strangling Dissent, Muzzling Whistleblowers'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Matt Miller calls for muzzling advisors and cabinet officials.
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The first management book I read was by Robert Townsend, called "Up the Organization" [subtitled "How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits"] written in the '70s.
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