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What's more immediately relevant, though, is self-strangulation by codes of practice.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

Brazil abounds with the most valuable woods in the world, but is prevented from competing with other nations by this system of self-strangulation.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James