They had to turn the spigot entirely off.

Do you turn off the international spigot of life support and risk two million civilian lives?

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

We need to cut the spigot of single use and disposable plastics, which are entering the marine environment every day on a global scale.

TS The first one I did was in the late 70's, and I just had a simple cone with a spigot at the bottom of it.

I threw it into an orbit, and it only had one color, and when it got to the center, the paint kept running out, so I had to run in there, didn't have any control over the spigot remotely.

Gas provides a tempting form of leverage, and Russia had already used it against Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova. But when Gazprom, the Russian state gas monopoly, followed Putin s instructions to turn off the spigot to Ukraine, Russia crossed a new threshold.

To skeptics, green shoots of recovery will not bloom without access to the credit spigot, which is still clogged by balance sheet damage in many banks. But, though the road back to full employment and sustainable growth will not be built overnight, progress on it may be faster than most observers expect.

By now, the global repercussions are clear, falling most acutely on developing economies with large current account deficits namely, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, and South Africa. These countries benefited the most from QE induced capital inflows, and they were the first to come under pressure when it looked like the spigot was about to be turned off.