Beijing's cutting-off of aid (per the terms of the accords) and a 1992 U.N. sanction against Khmer Rouge exports put a squeeze on the group's revenues.
Mr Obama, for his part, was right to press for more funds to counter what would otherwise have been a contractionary cutting-off of unemployment benefits and tax breaks for the poorest.
Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic sentence will shock people out of re-offending - thereby reducing long-term prison numbers and cutting off alcohol-related crime at the source.
With commercial banks gradually pulling their interbank and short-term credit lines from Soviet institutions and completely cutting off medium-term lending, the Kremlin's authorities are tempted, if not compelled, to take on higher pay-off banking transactions internationally.
Atop a new Russia determined to rebuild its old empire, Mr. Putin decided to go for the jugular with Ukraine -- cutting off the gas, in the middle of winter, just before the Orthodox Christmas.
Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.
Making another dress would require a trip to Italy to procure the fantastic fabric, reprinting the pattern and re-cutting the style as a one-off.
In theory, consolidation can ease this problem by cutting 8-10% off a broker's costs.
The cost-cutting has paid off, analysts predict that this quarter, which ends tomorrow, July 31, Novell will post earnings of about seven cents a share, its fourth profitable quarter in a row.
The crimes - which took place over five years - included cutting off the limbs of their victims and cutting open pregnant women to settle bets over the sex of their unborn children, he said.
While passing ineffective sanctions, the council gave the appearance of addressing the issue and so made it impossible for individual states to convince other states to adopt harsher, and perhaps more effective measures - like for instance cutting off trade with Iran or divesting from companies that trade with Iran - outside the Security Council.
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Even her most devoted supporters say that she could be short with people, curtly cutting them off in mid-sentence.
The Saudi Embassy is cutting off the Virginia-based Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, which the Post shorthanded as the Islamic Institute.
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At the end of 1997, without warning, MOR slowed the oil spigot to Joy-Lud, cutting it off completely by the end of 1998, Sapir alleges, in order to jeopardize FTL's financing for the plastics plant.
Besides the implementation of huge cost-cutting measures, the changes include plans to sell off non-core and strategically redundant business units.
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The second thing buoying MLPs is that there's a buyer's market for pipelines and other so-called midstream assets, which asset-cutting big oil companies and bankruptcy-mired Enron are selling off.
Malawi's government has invited bids for its 14-seat presidential jet, which is being sold off as part of cost-cutting measures.
When it comes to cutting welfare, benefits for better-off pensioners have had a lot of attention.
Not surprisingly, the new EV1 is a one-of-a-kind hybrid that combines proven off-road racing technology with a cutting edge drivetrain.
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Last winter Gazprom appeared to blackmail Ukraine's new pro-Western government by cutting off the country's gas amid a dispute over prices.
Some of them are into the position, and more of them will be of laying people off and cutting back - and we'd like to avert that.
Critics are beginning to grumble that this plethora of imports is cutting off opportunities for home-grown players, and so may damage the chances of the national side.
An oil embargo imposed by the European Union in July and other measures that have included cutting Iran off from international financial-settlement mechanisms and maritime insurance are hurting hard.
Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy noted at the time, (1) such action represented a deplorable capitulation to foreign pressure in the face of a clear national interest in cutting off the economic life-support to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Instead, both Ibanez and Swisher became just the latest Yankees to find work elsewhere part of a stunning caravan of players leaving town for above-market deals in other cities in an off-season when the cost-cutting Yankees are taking a backseat to aggressive other competitors.
So what was just an idea two decades ago is now rolling off assembly lines in cutting-edge fuel efficient cars that you can plug in at night.
They looked at witness accounts and letters sent by the two artists, concluding that the row ended with Gauguin - a keen fencer - cutting his friend's ear off.
In a sense, however, the fact that states and districts are laying off teachers and cutting pre-K and other programs is itself a form of policy choice.
The logistical challenges involved in sustaining military operations in remote areas where wars are commonly waged has convinced the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a growing number of cutting-edge solar-energy technologies in off-grid combat zones.
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The tax-cutting part is designed to fend off the Tory threat to Lib Dem seats in the south of England, and to offer more help for the poor - the party's line of attack against Labour in the north.
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