Sky cut the link, with an anchor saying, not entirely convincingly : "I'm not sure what was happening there".
"How could she cut the link?" Germany was the one country that Russia could not afford to lose.
The proposed changes, pressed by the agriculture commissioner, Franz Fischler, would cut the link between the amount farmers produce and the subsidies they receive.
Conservatives in Mrs. Merkel's party originally pushed for a flat-rate premium, which would cut the link between income level and health care payments.
Countries that cut the link to gold quickly and allowed their currencies to fluctuate endured shallower recessions and recovered more quickly than those that stuck with it.
But what both words disguise is their (or our) role as casualties of a global economic system that has managed to cut the link between pay and productivity and can no longer promise upward mobility.
The European summit in late June went some way to shore it up by announcing steps to cut the link between weak banks and weak governments, but the stresses remain severe.
They joined Jabhat al-Nusra mainly because it was a strong alternative to IS.But Jabhat al-Nusra's leaders, including its head, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, seem to have little wish to cut the link.
The new justice secretary, Michael Gove, is reviewing draft legislation promised in the Tory manifesto that would scrap the Human Rights Act, introduce a British bill of rights and "cut the link" with the Strasbourg court, returning judicial supremacy to the supreme court in Westminster.
He wants to cut the link between employment and health care by replacing today's tax subsidy with a standard health-care deduction and subsidies to help poor people pay for insurance, which everyone would have to buy.The debate in Washington is driven partly by the states, several of which have ambitious plans to cut the ranks of the uninsured.
The people the CAP helps most are big businessmen with vast fields of sugar beet in northern France or miles of bright-yellow oil-seed rape in southern England.The key reform proposed by the European Commission is to cut the link between farm subsidies and production.
