choke off in Czech

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1. The dry spell choke off the supply of water in that area.

2. If those banks fail, it could choke off credit for smaller companies.

3. It is feared that higher interest rates might choke off economic recovery.

4. That would choke off exports and risk tipping the economy back into recession.

5. However, a full 20 % increase will likely choke off the fragile Chinese economic recovery.

6. Some people want to choke off the very thing that makes us strong and unique.

7. They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery.

8. But premature fiscal tightening is worse because it is liable to choke off the recovery prematurely.

9. “It’s important that tightening of credit does not choke off small businesses and microfinance institutions,” says Zoellick.

10. Just as parasites do, cancer depends on its host for sustenance, which is why treatments that choke off tumors can be so effective.

11. Some authorities believe that because of continuing soil acidification, trace elements may be dissolved and absorbed by the roots and choke off a tree’s water supply.

12. I understand that prices cannot stay low forever, but have China's real estate prices risen so far so fast that they are beginning to choke off business?

13. Investors also worry about the danger of a 'double dip' European recession if governments get the timing and pace of budget consolidation wrong and choke off the recovery.

14. It also means that local party officials can effectively choke off information to Beijing, blinding the central authorities as to exactly how their mandates are carried out.

15. That would help stop the debt-to-GDP ratio rising, and would also ensure that the authorities did not prematurely choke off a recovery because of concerns about inflation.

16. When governments do that...they impose costs on households, they impose costs on businesses, they choke off markets and they get the exact opposite effect of what they want.

17. For its part, Iran, in its stand-off with world powers over its nuclear programme, has threatened to choke off oil shipments through the Persian Gulf if it is attacked.

18. But they said they're also looking to develop mechanisms to choke off the exports of North Korea's ballistic-missiles and nuclear technologies to countries such as Iran, Syria and Pakistan.

19. That said, if the troubles in Greece lead to a slowdown across Europe, it could choke off our economic recovery as Europe as a whole is a major trading partner.