Sentence examples for cutting off services from inspiring English sources

An increase in the number of students who qualify for free tutoring this year has led New York City to narrow its eligibility requirements, cutting off services to more than 3,500 students and offering them exclusively to those in the poorest households.

Now the city authorities, faced with talk of bankruptcy, plan to downsize Detroit by cutting off services, such as policing and sewerage, to large parts of the blighted metropolis in an effort to pressure residents to move to core neighbourhoods of a smaller city.

"Detropia" was shot in 2010 and 2011, a time when the city was beginning to permanently shut down some of its streetlights and bus lines, and Mayor Bing first proposed a controversial plan to "right-size" the city by urging residents of the most desolate areas to relocate — by their own devices — to denser parts, and then cutting off services to the ghost neighborhoods they leave behind.

Evans Bank began cutting off services and mortgages to mostly black areas of the city in 2009, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

As for other expenses, consider freezing or cutting off services that aren't essential, such as cable or streaming services, gym memberships, internet, cell phone data, etc.

That means block granting Medicaid, and the flexibility he so reveres would mean cutting off services for mammograms and std testing, instituting unaffordable co-pays, and ending birth control services if state legislatures want to spend the money some other way.

Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, likened its actions to a utility cutting off service to a deadbeat customer.

The Bryans, who won the title in 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, and 2006, started aggressively, crowding the net and slashing their customary winning shots off popped up volleys and cutting off service returns at the net.

Instead of cutting off service completely, however, AT&T has taken a leaf out of its European peers' rulebook and plans merely to throttle connection speeds available to the most egregious digital gluttons.

David Teater, formerly of the National Safety Council and now a private consultant on road safety, who lost his own son to a distracted driver, said companies clearly feared the consequences of cutting off service for their paying customers.

Gaming attorney Anthony Cabot, author of the book Internet Gambling Report, notes that cutting off service to gambling sites at the ISP level would be an effective, but daunting, task.