Sentence examples for border severing from inspiring English sources

The crisis began early this month, when South Korea accused the North of planting three land mines that exploded along the two countries' border, severing the legs of two South Korean soldiers.

The French took the opportunity to extend the existing Christian protectorate of Mount Lebanon to that country's present borders — thus severing it from Syria proper [8].

Oxfam said fighting at the border has severed trade, cutting off the vital flow of people, fuel and goods, and affecting the ability of people to earn a living.

The Canadian decision had no immediate effect across the border because the severed rail line meant Maine shippers had to reroute traffic.

Libya's expulsion last summer of Tunisian workers, a result of a shortage of hard currency, has adversely affected the Libyan economy and prompted the countries to close their common border and sever diplomatic ties in September.

Last week, it banned petty oil-smugglers in Ruweishid, a Jordanian town on the border, from driving across to Iraq to fill up their tanks, thus severing the town's lifeline for the past 13 years.

These ties would be weakened or severed if border controls were reintroduced.

That it shared a border with Quebec heightened a mythos of disconnection: separatism, many feared, would physically disrupt the entire country, severing the Maritimes and Newfoundland into distant satellites of the Great Dominion.

On the night of Dec. 14, 2010, a bullet pierced Agent Terry's back, severing his spine, during a firefight with Mexican bandits in a national forest west of Rio Rico, Ariz., 15 miles from the border.

By severing his contract.

Remove your knife without severing the bark.