Violent conflicts claim lives, disrupt livelihoods, and halt delivery of essential services, such as health care and education.
Rumour holds that Venezuela halted delivery of subsidised oil under Petrocaribe, a scheme which saved Haiti's government alone at least $200m last year.
In one of the most striking responses to the euro crisis, Roche, a Swiss pharmaceutical firm, halted delivery of some of its drugs to state-owned hospitals in Greece this summer, following non-payment of its bills.
He explained the plan -- a blockade of Cuba to halt delivery of any more military equipment and a warning that if a missile was fired, the United States would strike at the Soviet Union.
(Ironically, Marshall, as secretary of state, was responsible for delivering these appointments). Offended by what he perceived to be a Federalist court-packing plan, President Jefferson ordered his secretary of state, James Madison, to halt delivery of the remaining commissions.
After the Security Council passed the latest sanctions, French officials said that Russia's prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, told the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, that Moscow would halt delivery of the missiles.
Waiting to go back to the front, the troops first jeer at a captured German girl, whose halting delivery of a sentimental folk song finally reduces them to tears.
His proposal has recently run into some political snags, but he plans to push ahead with it, offering the lawyers higher commissions for making faster collections and giving them the power to seize property, freeze bank accounts and halt delivery of supplies to businesses.The government will be glad of help.
Mr. Medvedev's announcement confirmed in public what Russian officials had quietly told American and French officials in June: that he would interpret the United Nations sanctions against Iran as mandating that Russia should permanently halt delivery of S-300 missiles, which Tehran wanted to build as a deterrent to airstrikes against its nuclear facilities.
The halting delivery of his campaign launch speech - read from a piece of paper - has also attracted comments.
Relations between Paris and Moscow have suffered over the crisis in Ukraine, leading France to halt delivery of two helicopter carriers built for Russia.
