The Brazilian controllers, it said, had failed to act promptly when the transponder stopped working, and two-way radio voice communication ceased.
On 1 December 2009, the computer abandoned one of the batteries completely and the following day communication ceased.
Our communication ceased, honesty disappeared, trust evaporated.
Cellphone communication had ceased; teenagers, their vocal chords atrophied by years of texting, struggled vainly to communicate, staggering around town, making zombie-like "Aaarghh, aarghh" sounds, reduced finally to scrawling desperate notes to their parents: "I hate you".
We'll cease communication, then meet up and it's all very intense.
But if for any reason you wish to discontinue receiving the Clarion please say so and all communication will, sadly, cease".
Along the same lines, a senior officer of the National Academies ceased communication with me when he saw my essay in the Guardian about racism.
Much to my disgust, communication all but ceased to exist.
That instant I would have been stamped as an enemy of the church and all communication would have ceased.
The city's Economic Development department, who were at first friendly and helpful, ceased communication once I broached this topic via email.
