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Local authorities responded with the new penalties, aimed at choking off the gang's sources of income.
In July, it announced new measures aimed at choking off sources of hard currency for the government and its allies.
Attacks aimed at choking the supply lines have become increasingly frequent and brazen, despite the presence of Pakistani security forces in the area.
To block Iran's nuclear ambitions, the United States and the European Union recently imposed harsh economic sanctions aimed at choking off Iran's energy supplies and prohibiting foreign banks from doing business with financial institutions inside the country.
More than three-quarters of the supplies for the NATO and American troops flow through Pakistan, and attacks aimed at choking off supply routes also have become more frequent and more brazen.
It is aimed at choking off the flow of American funds to a fast-growing, if illegal, industry that took some $12 billion in bets worldwide last year, half of which are thought to have been placed by Americans.The immediate effect was to send an entire industry into a spin as the share prices of online gambling firms crashed.
US officials will visit Beijing next week for talks with Chinese officials aimed at further choking off the global ivory trade.
Changes in the political landscape bring with them a veritable avalanche of state and federal laws aimed at curtailing reproductive rights and choking off access to reproductive health care, often by targeting those astonishingly few doctors who still offer a full range of services.
Tighter monetary policy aimed at curbing inflation then further choked domestic demand.The recent recovery in industrial production reflects the end of destocking by manufacturers as well as the large fiscal stimulus by most governments.
HONG KONG — The Chinese economy continued to expand at a rapid clip during the third quarter, demonstrating that government measures aimed at reining in growth have not choked off expansion.
The devaluation, which lowered the currency's value against the dollar by nearly a third, was aimed at solidifying government finances and easing a tight market for dollars that has choked back imports and led to shortages of basic goods.
