"This would cause a global catastrophe wherever it hit the Earth, via a climate change, and this would lead to a rapid cut-off of the food supply and ultimately within a few months to a loss of probably a quarter of the world's population, " he told BBC radio.
He did help cut off the supply of money and technology to the Soviet Union.
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The French aim is to cut off their lines of supply, helped by Algeria's reinforcement of its border security.
Apple lost ground when it choked off the supply of the original iPhone ahead of the launch of this 3G version.
And America, South Korea and Japan agreed jointly to cut off the supply of fuel-oil under a 1994 agreement until it does.
On the other hand, if we design the new rules carelessly, they could choke off the supply of capital to businesses and families.
There have been reports that when North Korea test-fired a missile into the sea towards Japan last month, China briefly shut off its supply of oil to the country.
While some see that as supportive for gold, Gero said it seems that crude oil is getting a bigger lift out of that news than is gold on fears of a shutting off of crude oil supply.
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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 Korea Times story painted a scenario where Samsung was gradually tailing off its supply of LCDs to Apple over the course of this year, quoting a source as saying the Korean company had shipped 15 million displays to Apple in the first six months of 2012, but less than 3 million during the third quarter, which ended in September.
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Even cash-rich banks will hoard their money if they fear that the interbank market will seize up and cut them off from sources of future supply.
Unicef says it plans on providing a month's supply of water treatment chemicals for the capital Harare where water supply has been cut off because the government of Robert Mugabe is unable to buy chemicals needed to clean tap water.
But Syria could certainly cut off the flow of re-supply to Hezbollah, which eventually would be felt, and Hezbollah could not ignore that if Syria took that step.
Scottish Power said the main areas affected in south west Scotland on Sunday were in Wigtownshire and Barrhill, with nearly 3, 000 homes off supply at the start of the day.
Many expected FB to sell off when the large new wave of supply hit the market, but instead the stock squeezed shorts and has been in a steep uptrend since.
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And it gives us the figures on how vulnerable gas supplies are: households would suffer interruption of gas supply if more than 60% of sources are cut off, assuming that industrial users take the first impact and cut their demand.
It managed to land a sea-borne force north of the camp and cut off supply routes.
He threatened to increase the price of water or even cut off the supply, prompting Singapore to embark on an expensive recycling project.
In effect these types of measures represent on-off negative supply shocks on inflation, taking it lower, says Tony Volpon, managing director at Nomura Securities in New York.
On Sunday, officials from the bureau, which monitors pirate attacks, said that heavily armed pirates had kidnapped four people after attacking an Italian supply vessel off the coast of Nigeria.
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After cutting off one of the US's major supply routes for its forces in Afghanistan, Russia agreed to permit the US to resume its shipment of nonlethal military supplies for Afghanistan through Russian territory.
Turns out, a good chunk of it resulted from the price spike in the quarter for hard disk drives, which saw a sharp fall-off in supply as as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand.
These had included cutting off some of Singapore's fresh-water supply and withdrawing the large numbers of Malaysian workers from the country.
South Sudan shut off its oil supply last year, accusing Sudan of stealing oil revenue.
That's when the positive effects of inventory work-off, a goosed money supply and Bush tax cuts happily converge.
Supply of vaccine available to ward off that widespread infection is increasing, with 31.8 million doses now available, Frieden said.
The quake, which was set off by the movement of a nearby fault, damaged the approaches to two bridges and concrete pipes that cut off water supply to the two villages.
Weaker-than-expected off-peak season demand and a global supply crunch of HDDs coupled with low demand for PC DRAM chips and the oversupply of mobile DRAM impacted profit margins, in which the memory portion saw its revenue slip to 4.89 trillion won.
If prices were to rise sharply for reasons other than a Persian Gulf supply choke-off, it would be because of strong economic growth around the world.
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