Several factors are driving the collapse of Louisiana's coast, from saltwater intrusion and erosion caused by the digging of oil and gas canals to the leveeing of the Mississippi River, which has cut off land-building sediment from the river's vast delta in southern Louisiana.
Misurata, Libya's third-largest city, has been cut off by land from the rest of the country by military forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Thousands of hectares of land remain under water, and whole villages have been cut off.
Its geometry is further disjointed by an L-shaped jog at the end, which contributes considerably to the feeling of being afloat and cut off from land.
The expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome (509 bce) deprived them of control over this strategic spot on the Tiber and also cut off their land route to Campania.
After Georgia very publicly and dramatically expelled Russian diplomats accused of espionage, Mr. Putin cut off all land, sea, air and rail links to Georgia, as well as postal service.
City officials note that this is mostly parkland and, while sympathetic to the irritation of homeowners, say there is no way tourists can — or should — be cut off from land that is open to anyone who knows how to get there.
The Tigers murdered anyone brave, or rash, enough to try to run a civil administration.The main body of the Tigers retreated to the jungles around Kilinochchi, Mullaittivu and Vavuniya, from where they successfully cut off all land routes from the south of the island to the Jaffna peninsula.
Dwight Eisenhower, a wartime general and later United States president, said the dc-3 was one of the West's four key weapons, the others being the jeep, the bazooka and the atomic bomb.The dc-3's finest hour came in July 1948 when the Russians cut off the land route between Berlin and Western Europe.
By 2 November, Humaitá was completely cut off from land reinforcement by Paraguayan forces.
By January 1868 Humaitá had been completely cut off from land reinforcement and the shallow-draft monitors had arrived.
