In recent months, other companies have announced that they would stop sales, cut back business or end affiliations with Iranian firms, including General Electric, Huntsman, Siemens, Caterpillar and Ingersoll Rand.
One, Sigma Epsilon, recently ended affiliation with its national organization and, calling itself Sig Ep, began pledging women.
The Air Force finally had enough and ended affiliation with the school in June 2009.
The logical conclusions of ending automatic affiliation are obvious.
* Leo Burnett Worldwide, Chicago, part of the Bcom3 Group, is ending its affiliation with Reuveni Pridan, Tel Aviv, because, Burnett said in a statement, it was "not prepared to further invest in the Israeli market at this stage".
The GMB union has cut its funding to Labour by £1m, after Mr Miliband proposed ending automatic affiliation of union members to the party.
In July, its leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani claimed he was ending its affiliation with al-Qaeda and forming a new body with "no ties with any foreign party".
In November 2014, Toronto FC announced the establishment of their own team to play in the USL Pro, which will serve as a reserve team for TFC and a bridge between the Academy, ending its affiliation with Wilmington.
Coming less than a week after reports that artist Damien Hirst was ending his affiliation with Gagosian Gallery, the news rattled rattled their friends and associates who struggled to make sense of the seismic instability that has recently shaken the art world.
That's the importance of the corporate efforts to end N.R.A. affiliations.
Within the last year, the Winsted Church of Christ, the Northfield Congregational Church in Litchfield and the Beacon Falls Congregational Church also ended their affiliations.
