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Big insurance companies have a strangle-hold on Republicans as they keep lining their pockets with your dollars and you get nothing in return.
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He unlocked the box and dipped Michael out with the customary strangle-hold on the neck.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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As we ramp up for the holiday that showcases in stark relief what's become the routine sexualization of our daughters, here are an award-winning film and two great organizations to inspire mothers to offer our girls ways to wriggle free of this cultural strangle-hold.
Joyce McFadden: How to Use Sexualized Halloween Costumes to Discuss the Power of Mothers and Daughters Joyce McFadden 2011
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The strangle-hold of the Israeli propaganda machine can be seen at its extreme now.
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As we ramp up for the holiday that showcases in stark relief what's become the routine sexualization of our daughters, here are an award-winning film and two great organizations to inspire mothers to offer our girls ways to wriggle free of this cultural strangle-hold.
Joyce McFadden: How to Use Sexualized Halloween Costumes to Discuss the Power of Mothers and Daughters Joyce McFadden 2011
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As we ramp up for the holiday that showcases in stark relief what's become the routine sexualization of our daughters, here are an award-winning film and two great organizations to inspire mothers to offer our girls ways to wriggle free of this cultural strangle-hold.
Joyce McFadden: How to Use Sexualized Halloween Costumes to Discuss the Power of Mothers and Daughters Joyce McFadden 2011
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With The Four Seasons, and the nearby La Fonda del Sol, which was the country's first pan-Latino restaurant, Joe began a trend that ultimately broke the strangle-hold that French restaurants held on gastronomy.
Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute Rozanne Gold 2011
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With The Four Seasons, and the nearby La Fonda del Sol, which was the country's first pan-Latino restaurant, Joe began a trend that ultimately broke the strangle-hold that French restaurants held on gastronomy.
Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute Rozanne Gold 2011
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As we ramp up for the holiday that showcases in stark relief what's become the routine sexualization of our daughters, here are an award-winning film and two great organizations to inspire mothers to offer our girls ways to wriggle free of this cultural strangle-hold.
Joyce McFadden: How to Use Sexualized Halloween Costumes to Discuss the Power of Mothers and Daughters Joyce McFadden 2011
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In the bargain, it gave the GOP a virtual strangle-hold on southern politics and a decided advantage in presidential elections for more than a generation.
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