The UK has withheld £17m of budget funds.
South Korea withheld 300,000 tons of grain after the Yellow Sea skirmish.
Congress initially withheld 25,000 allowances a year to be sold for $1,500 each, plus inflation.
Afridi's sentence angered the US, which withheld £22m in aid for Pakistan in retaliation.
It duly withheld €220m ($320m) of EU money from Bulgaria in 2008.
The NAO estimates the DWP withheld £132m from claimants through sanctions in 2015, and paid them £35m in hardship payments.
But China withheld 27 members of the country's Olympic team from the Sydney Games, and later acknowledged that it was for drug-related reasons.
A Welsh distributor, KMS Components, was put out of business in January after the retailer Argos withheld £3.2m because of a GMS licensing dispute.
Lloyds Banking Group has fired eight staff and withheld £3m of bonuses following "unacceptable" actions that led to the bailed out bank being fined for Libor rigging.
In July, Britain withheld £16m in aid, but the money was controversially restored by Greening's predecessor Andrew Mitchell in September on his last day in office at DfID.
The State Department, acting as if the cables were still secret, withheld 12 of the 23 cables completely and released 11 with some redactions.
