Sentence examples for cutting communications from inspiring English sources

By about 1280 the Turks were plundering the fertile valleys of western Anatolia, cutting communications between the Greek cities, and their emirs were beginning to carve out small principalities.

The rebels gained control of southern Iraq by capturing al-Ubullah (June 870), a seaport on the Persian Gulf, and cutting communications to Basra, then seized Ahvāz in southwestern Iran.

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Cyclone René, a powerful storm, slammed into northern and central Tonga on Monday, ripping off roofs, tearing down trees and power lines and cutting communications with Nuku'alofa, the capital situated in the south of the country.

In 1964, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States struck Anchorage and southern Alaska, cutting communications to the outside world.

The storm produced the state's largest flood on record, which effectively split the state into two by destroying bridges and cutting communications.

Their mission was to "decapitate" the Iraqi high command by cutting communications links, destroying key government ministries and leveling places of refuge of Iraq's civilian and military leadership.

The New Jersey State Police radio antenna had been on top of one of the towers, cutting off communications.

If Mr. Mubarak's Egypt has resorted to the traditional blunt instrument against dissent in a crisis — cutting off communications altogether — other countries have shown greater sophistication.

Other Israeli officials have spoken of walling Mr. Arafat into his compound and cutting his communications -- in essence, bringing a prison to him.

Iara Lee, a Brazilian filmmaker who was also on the Mavi Marmara, claimed the Israeli troops had invaded the ship after cutting all communications and "started shooting at people".

After that, the ambitious young congressman virtually disappeared, retreating to his district and cutting off communications with many colleagues and supporters around the state.