Sentence examples for choke off demand from inspiring English sources

Monday's executive order would set up a presidential task force to draw up a new strategy for cracking down on the criminal gangs behind the explosion in trafficking, as well as choke off demand for elephant ivory, rhino tusk and other animal parts.

They try to nudge them up gently so as not to choke off demand.

A rise in the cost of borrowing will quickly choke off demand.

Enforcement is a losing battle, he says, and the only way to end poaching is to choke off demand.

With proper controls and enforcement, a legal trade would choke off demand for illicit ivory and discourage the poaching now decimating the continent's elephant populations.

The worry is that, just as the industry starts to recover from one of its worst-ever years, more expensive products could choke off demand.

In the market for cabbages or computers, prices would rise, encouraging greater supply or choking off demand.

Then, high prices had choked off demand; but as soon as oil became cheap again, the thirst for it returned.

It sees no case for choking off demand, by arguing against the draconian thrust of housing benefit caps.

The executive order signed by Obama also established a presidential task force charged with drafting a new strategy for cracking down on poachers, and choking off demand for their products.

On Inside Out (BBC One North East & Cumbria, Monday, 24 February, 2014 at 19 30 GMT) the chief constable says you can go further than the Danish system and put drug dealers out of business by choking off demand on the streets.