In 2010, however, it went out of business following government pressure on companies to withdraw advertising.

"I have withdrawn our advertising, even if it costs me some."

The network talked about withdrawing its advertising at that time, too.

In fact, some companies threatened to withdraw their advertising from this magazine because it had published her work.

Threats to withdraw advertising - could be very damaging to the group as a whole.

"Basically this group said that if the editorial direction of the magazine didn't change, they were going to withdraw their advertising."

Crude threats to withdraw advertising might at any time have been counter-productive.

He said no advertisers had said they wanted to withdraw or reduce advertising.

Once in office, the candidates withdrew the city's legal advertising from The Gazette.

Businesses are often pressured by the government to withdraw advertising from media that are critical of it.