Sentence examples for an effort to sever from inspiring English sources

The Harvard Economic Service was reorganized as the Harvard Economic Society in 1927, in an effort to sever its relationship to the university.

Israel's condemnation of the links between Iran and Syria on the one hand and Hamas and Hizbollah on the other, and the civilian casualties it is inflicting in Gaza and Lebanon in an effort to sever them, is enhancing the credibility of Damascus and Tehran in Arab public opinion.

It is a major step in the bank's delicate effort to sever its ties with Washington.

Some of its writers see this as the centrepiece of their effort to sever the link between the casting of votes and the disbursement of government money.

The pope's effort to sever the link between population growth and environmental deterioration should not, however, detract from the importance of what else he has to say.

Scotland and Northern Ireland, where voters were less moved by nationalist appeals, preferred to remain, and now the question is whether Scottish politicians will renew last year's effort to sever their own ties with the U.K.

"So we have to oppose any efforts to sever cultural bonds between people on both sides, and we can help provide a cultural basis for peaceful reunification".

And governance issues like American-backed efforts to sever criminal patronage networks among Afghan officials have repeatedly been shut down by the Afghan leader.

After Bank of America received permission to exit the bailout program early this month, Citigroup officials redoubled their efforts to sever ties with Washington.

He continued the Danish efforts to sever the House of Gottorp's link with Sweden, but his first attempt to do so, in 1700 at the outbreak of the Great Northern War, was checked by Charles XII of Sweden.

While the distinction between fighting drugs and terror was largely fictitious and therefore perhaps dispensable, at least Congress had conditioned the military aid on serious efforts to sever ties between the army and the paramilitaries.