But those devices tended to choke horses, so a more sophisticated device was developed.
One was a financial crisis, brought on by reckless speculation that threatened to choke off all lending.
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Buying DEC almost caused Compaq Computer (nyse: CPQ - news - people) to choke to death.
The firm has been open to poaching from rivals, and the upheaval has threatened to choke off new business.
It also does not want to choke off growth by raising interest rates.
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"This day, Alice can rest, " the widower said, then began to choke up.
They think Norwegian whalemeat contains too many pollutants to choke the stuff down.
One is a financial crisis, born of reckless speculation that threatened to choke off lending to families and to businesses.
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U.S. forces have been operating in that area to try to choke off Taliban and al Qaeda members fleeing to Pakistan.
That, combined with the fact that the video streams will be four times larger, will cause unprepared corporate Wi-Fi networks to choke.
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They are aggressively marketing high-brow smart phones for business solutions, leaving their millions of other subscribers to choke on their cheap phones.
The remote-controlled submarines are being used by BP in an attempt to activate the well's blowout preventer to choke the flow of oil.
Mr. Grimes himself told the Facebook management team that it would be "his throat to choke" if the IPO turned out to be unsuccessful.
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There is a big difference between due diligence and crippling regulations that serve only to choke off mining processes before they even get started.
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In a report published last year, Google - in partnership with PRS for Music - outlined ways to choke businesses making money from illegal activity.
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During previous booms in commodity prices, as in the 1980s, central banks jacked up interest rates in order to choke off demand and so stifle inflation.
The Fed is unlikely to cut interest rates unless global financial turmoil or a sharp crash in share prices threatens to choke off American consumer spending.
For that, it needs clearer evidence of a slowdown in demand, or the prospect that a further plunge in the stockmarket might threaten to choke future spending.
In their remarks to the meeting, the finance officials repeatedly called for tougher steps to choke off terror financing, pointing to the link between global security and economic prosperity.
What the three qualities all have in common is that leaders who are likely to choke under pressure have demonstrated they possess these qualities long before the crucial moment.
Japan has looked on in alarm as the rise in the value of the yen is impacting Japanese exports and threatens to choke off any hope of economic recovery.
Blog AppleInsider had also reported earlier this week that Apple was also pushing Rogers to revise its subscription plan by threatening to choke supplies of the new iPhone.
It's hard to even think about being productive when you're suffering from the flu, not to mention having to choke down those bitter remedies stockpiled in your medicine cabinet.
In a building not far from downtown, organizers literally mapped out about a dozen areas where they planned to choke off central Seattle so that delegates could not reach their meetings.
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Instead of tackling the Japanese in direct, brutal assaults, MacArthur would pick under-defended Japanese-held islands, take them, and use them to choke off supplies and reinforcements to the Japanese island next door.
On Tuesday, in the first use of the 2001 Patriot Act against a virtual currency, the Treasury Department invoked a section of the law to choke off Liberty Reserve from the U.S. financial system.
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In my book, I argue that we should instead grasp the neuroethical nettles that threaten to choke the growth of the new field neurocriminology, recognize that there is more to crime than bad environments, and attack the brain basis to violence.
But the trick could be scaled up to hundreds or thousands of fake signals, much like a denial-of-service attack that uses thousands of computers to choke a website with a flood of fraudulent requests for information, Costin says.
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