He amassed controllers and treasurers from important states in the U.S. with a threat to stop doing business with Swiss banks.

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Likewise, importers and other businesses in the supply chain are likely to stop doing business altogether with exporters who are subject to antidumping measures.

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Thompson finally decided to stop doing business with Avtovaz.

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Mr. GAFFNEY: Well, what I'm actually proposing is that Americans do what their government is doing in it's own way which is using financial pressure on exactly these same governments and on their companies to stop doing business with companies like Iran at the moment.

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Since the U.S. does hardly any direct business with the Iran, the new measures were more aimed at pressuring companies elsewhere to also stop doing business with Iran.

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He said that it would "be a shame if it had to stop doing its business".

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Legislation now making its way through Congress will give America's treasury secretary new powers to stop American banks doing business with others in jurisdictions that he decides help money-launderers.

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Also, there would have been huge costs to having every business to stop what it was doing and scramble to find a safe place to store its operating cash.

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But they have to understand that if Mr Ashdown never attacked them, his party would soon stop him doing business with them altogether.

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Rather than stop doing business with Chavez, as a reliable U.S. defense partner would be expected to do, EADS immediately tried to circumvent ITAR by stripping out the American-made equipment and trying to find non-U.S. replacements.

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To be sure, tech spending can't stop entirely, particularly technology that automates transactions and lowers the costs of doing business.

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