Sentence examples for don't sever from inspiring English sources
"I think they [British people] looked with honest fear at the chaos at that point in France and Germany and said if we don't sever ourselves from Europe, next time we'll be in for that sort of stuff [terrorism].
If we don't -- if we don't sever our campus Jewishness from its unspoken allegiance to the Israeli status quo -- then Bibi's cynicism and blossoming radicalism will cause young Jewish-Americans to flee in droves from a country, a cause, and a culture that they mistakenly think to be too diametrically opposed to their worldview.
Ms. Frew also advised that people moving abroad "don't sever relationships with U.S. banks and credit card companies when living abroad".
Commercials in which a mother shows up at a sports bar to open her son's beer bottle, for example, are misleading but typical, she said — mothers are portrayed as domineering and the sons who do not sever ties with them as wimps.
Most spinal injuries in people do not sever the spinal cord completely, explains Courtine.
Cheris Shun-ching Chan likewise writes that Falun Gong is "categorically not a sect": its practitioners do not sever ties with secular society, it is "loosely structured with a fluctuating membership and tolerant of other organizations and faiths," and it is more concerned with personal, rather than collective worship.
However, Peverel didn't sever ties with Tchenguiz completely.
He didn't sever his ear, die young in a bar brawl, go mad through poverty, absinthe or neglect.
Achilles, the Greek hero, stabs the Trojan prince, Hector, in the neck with his spear, but doesn't sever Hector's windpipe.
And while no tyres were slashed, no numbers were blocked, and I didn't sever Neil Patrick Harris's neck with a box cutter, my relationship unravelled in toxic and abusive ways.
In well-drawn scenes brimming with life and poignancy, Takoudes shows us that departure itself doesn't sever the cords of love, and how those loved ones tethered to you by the heart still hold sway, even when that sway is for the worse not the better.
