Sentence examples for cut it off from from inspiring English sources

With both Hanson and ITT, that strategy soon ran out of steam.The private-equity market ran out of steam when the credit crisis of 2008 cut it off from its lifeblood borrowed money.

If you cut it off from its floodplain by turning it into a deep trench, you might raise its capacity from, say, 2% of the water moving through the catchment to 4%.

Concrete barriers will cut it off from the rest of China.

It also experienced the French Revolution, which violently cut it off from that past.

But it is only the financial aspects that really cut it off from respectability.

In the end, the British troops occupied the battlefield, but they neither destroyed Washington's army nor cut it off from the capital at Philadelphia.

Cooking with a lid both contains the grease and cuts it off from its would-be oxygen supply.

The Pace University building, a wide, Brutalist-style structure completed in 1970, cuts it off from the rest of the city to the north; just beyond are the spaghettilike access ramps of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Many people considered West Seattle the boondocks because the Duwamish River, which forms its eastern boundary, cuts it off from the rest of the city.

They spoke Gaelic -- a language that is, as the author puts it, a "beautiful prison," a dialect that unites the clan and cuts it off from the outside world.

He argued that, while aiming at providing a comprehensive view of reality, this 'new realism' restricts the place of mind and cuts it off from physical reality.