In Spain's case, our adherence to what was then the European Community was the culmination of a yearning by successive generations cut off from the possibility of joining the broader current of peace, democracy and progress that was flowing north of the Pyrenean border.
When the 22 high-voltage power pylons were blown over, a huge chunk of power generation was cut off from the rest of the network.
The older man saw the succession as the younger generation coming to cut off his member, and the younger man, who wanted the position, saw it in terms of cutting off the older man's member — thus his indecision.
So it isn't simply sad that the next generation is so cut off from nature.
And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America.
In 1739, two of the next generation of Bradleys, Samuel and Jonathan, were cut off in their youth in an ambush in New Hampshire.
Generations of children have been cut off from basic services – they've seen violence and deprivation.
There is a severe risk of creating a "lost generation" with so many young people cut off from their studies and the promise of their future.
To remove these differences in pedigree depth, the pedigree was cut off at seven generations for all individuals.
That helped one generation on to the housing ladder, but cut off the next," he says.
