When Israel took over the Strip, all communication with the Arab countries was cut off.
Nations invaded by the Germans stopped getting parcel post, & service to 29 additional countries were cut off.
Now, in the case of the Soviet Union and of China -- any countries which are cut off -- those countries recognize that they must keep up with science.
But the total amount stolen — $10 million to $20 million — was relatively small, and aides to Dr. Kazatchkine said the fund cut off those countries and sought to retrieve the money.
Would a euro-zone economic government have heeded British objections to tougher hedge-fund regulation in 2010, or resisted Mr Sarkozy's one-time proposal that EU regional aid should be cut off for countries indulging in "harmful tax competition"?
Orban's statement followed a warning from Moscow that it could cut off European countries that have been re-exporting gas to Ukraine to help Kiev cope with Moscow's energy sanctions.
She is 18 months from finishing her English course at university; as one of the brightest students, she was plucked from her class and allowed to join Mr O in guiding a group of foreigners on a week-long tour of her homeland – North Korea, one of the most secretive and cut-off countries in the world.
See articleA waste of energyVenezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, threatened not for the first time to cut off his country's oil exports to the United States after Exxon Mobil, an American oil giant, secured court orders in three countries preventing Petróleos de Venezuela, the state oil firm, from selling assets worth $12 billion.
This was the first time the UK had cut off a country's banking sector targeting Iran's Central Bank.
In response to yet another round of sanctions by the United Nations, he has cut off his country's oil exports again.Taken at face value, this is serious.
