Whether production is cut off because of sanctions or because of military action, it would crimp production, Patti said.
Disease and hunger too have begun to take a toll, as the city is cut off from outside aid.
Avice is cut off from her old contacts and the similes have disbanded.
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It suggests that, even though much of the country is cut off from the food-distribution system, rural dwellers survive precariously through subsistence farming.
The first thing we have to do is cut off special interests' ability to influence campaigns with their money, and increase the power of regular people.
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Art is cut off from the lives of everyday people.
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If the supply is cut off even for a few days, modern economies come to a halt, as Britain discovered when tax protestors blockaded some domestic oil depots two years ago.
But there is bound to be the question: where does the advantage lie in an investment bank which is cut off from its in-house source of funding, and should it not simply split completely?
This is what happens when a city is cut off from the rest of the country by desert, developed by the Mob, built on broken get-rich-quick dreams and where visitors outnumber locals nearly 20 to one.
The conclave is designed to take outside pressure off cardinals by sequestering them behind a wall of silence where communication with the outside world is essentially cut off, and much of the daily schedule is scripted.
The way you do that is you cut off their bolt-hole so that there's nowhere that they can hide, and you cut off their sources of supply, both of money and of arms, and that has, that is going to be an ongoing operation.
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The northern half of the country is largely cut off from the more commercially vibrant south.
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If Churchill Downs is big hats and red carpets, Pimlico is cut-off shorts and porta-johns.
After two years of VA-funded counseling that have kept him from the brink, Hamilton-Knapp is being cut off.
The French aim is to cut off their lines of supply, helped by Algeria's reinforcement of its border security.
Nuristan is geographically cut off from the rest of Afghanistan and has next to no infrastructure, few medical facilities and endemic corruption.
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So what this bill does is actually cut off funding for the very people that Diane Watson claims she's trying to help.
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In any case, Russia is not completely cut off from the world financial system.
When the rains come in April and the Bedunge turns to marsh and then glutinous mud, sending up clouds of malarial mosquitoes, this region is all but cut off from the outside world.
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So there is a cut-off height above which it makes no sense building, but hubris (esp. during a credit boom) makes people want to add a dozen floors too many, and credit booms also lead builders to underestimate the cost of capital tied up in those extra floors.
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So I think that it's you know, at the end of the day, you've got to get a cut off point and the question is, where there's a reasonable cut off point.
Ergo, if our universe is just a simulation, there should be a cut off in the spectrum of high energy particles, and low and behold, there is -- the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin or GZK cut off.
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What caught me by surprise after we moved is that I felt cut off from the book business.
This is exactly what will happen in America if the Medicare drug benefit is ever reduced or cut off.
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But right now the question is can we just cut off the preliminary procedurals and move on to the resolution itself.
There is no firm cut-off date, says the British Bankers' Association (BBA), but most banks will accept legacy currencies until early February.
Baliffs are due on Friday over unpaid council rates, the electricity is set to be cut off and the water has already been cut off.
Seoul is also reluctant to cut off all problem companies completely.
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