With water cut off, he ordered the use of dynamite to halt the fires, though this needlessly destroyed many buildings and may have spread the fires at some points.
Daley has never shown much interest in the niceties of checks and balances; he once had the microphone of an alderman he considered out of order cut off.
The dead person had to die anew; a stake could be put through the corpse, or its head might be cut off in order to stop the deceased from finding its way back to the living.
Frigid temperatures could severely strain the system, with big industrial users cut off in order to keep households warm.
Henry I is famous for allowing his two granddaughters to be mutilated – they were blinded and their noses were cut off – in order to settle a political squabble.
His namesake son, J. Paul III, was kidnapped by members of the Italian mafia in 1973 and had his ear cut off in order to extract a ransom of $3.4 million from Getty Sr. in London.
The old woman reciprocates by revealing her own tragic life, which included having a buttock cut off in order to feed some starving men.
Fearing their forces would be completely cut off, an order was given by the Haganah to retreat and leave the wounded, Tzvika Levkov among them.
For three samples per time point, both the distal and proximal ends of the femurs were cut off in order to exclude the epiphyses and growth plate regions.
There is an exquisite essay by Nishitani Keiji on this marvelous art, in which organic life is cut off precisely in order to let the true nature of the flower come to the fore (Nishitani, 23 7).
A more difficult question is how to apply cut off values in order to accurately measure species diversity, given uneven speciation rates.
