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A blockade of oil deliveries to Cuba has forced emergency rationing, kneecapping the country's critical tourism and tobacco sectors even as remittances are under threat and income earned from sending doctors abroad has been all but cut off.
From Barron's
Despite a brief resumption, the last official channel for people abroad to send money home to family in Cuba all but disappeared in 2020 when Western Union suspended transfers.
From Barron's
Australia's hopes of reaching the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup are all but over after Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka hit a brilliant unbeaten 100 to condemn them to an eight-wicket defeat in Pallekele.
From BBC
All but one reported delays in their office, and 19 of them told us parcels were still taking priority over all letters.
From BBC
As Volumnia’s temperamental opposite, Coriolanus’ wife, Virgilia, who all but swoons at the mere mention of blood, Meredith Garretson looks strikingly chic in a dark-red blouse and skirt, but her performance in this admittedly rather thankless role is colorless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
